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Originally Posted by Quoth
There is also no need for Fixed Layout Epub. That is as well served by a PDF.
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Maybe manga publishers are bad at PDF in France and in the US, but the rare times I had access to a PDF file for a manga I bought, none of them properly managed the Right-to-left reading direction of mangas: either they didn't care at all so any pictures spreading on two pages would not display properly (because the pages were organized as if the reading direction was LTR) or they care a bit and the pages were in the reverse order (last page as cover, cover as last page, to mimic the RTL reading direction), which allow for proper display of pictures on two pages but the reading experience was not great either because I was forced to go to the last page of the PDF file to display the cover and start reading the book.
Outside of one manga series (a mistake by the publisher who forgot to specify the reading direction in the spine section of the OPF files), all Fixed Layout EPUB mangas I bought are in the correct reading direction, so I would not say, based on my experience, that the existence of PDF means Fixed Layout EPUB should not exist.