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Originally Posted by jęd
So... Is the Illiad a printed page, or is it a screen...?  At the moment I see the Illiad a device capable of displaying a page, which is why I favour screen based solutions, ie HTML... HTML is going to be much more flexible mainly because it is display agnostic, so it may not be as good as a custom document but will be better for more devices... |
I'm not sure I understand your distinction. When it comes to PDF, the best result is obtained when you regard the iLiad as the printer -- it accepts 'paper' of a particular size, closely related to its screen size. Using other output formats will need scaling or pan-and-scan solutions, just as when you try to print a legal-sized document on a letter-sized page -- You just don't do that -- if you must have legal-sized documents, you get a legal-sized printer: common sense, really. Anything else will be a compromise, useful only for particular situations.
HTML is a useful alternative, of course, even if it's not completely display agnostic. (A competent HTML coder is able to stay away from those areas, though.) Once you need to display music, chess, math, you're reduced to bitmaps ... which need to be created outside HTML, and also make certain assumptions about available display width. "Illustrated books" in HTML, which there are some on the web, cannot be shown on a very small screen -- the illustrations are too large.
You select the solution that fits your quality targets -- simple enough.