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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I don't see why a PDF could not be created and used as the source for the pBooks. Then the same word processing document can be used as the source for the eBook.
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You can make a PDF fitst, but the paper version needs many things that should not be in the word processor for making an ebook. It's easier to add complexity than remove it. The actual PDF of course is an end point, not a source for anything other than paper.
It's also saving environment to proof / annotate on eink instead of paper.
So it makes far more sense to do ebook first. We have been doing it that way round for 10 years. I was doing DTP for paper since 1986. Stopped using DTP packages for paper in about 2006. Also the temptation is high to edit the content in the DTP (which is what InDesign is) instead of going back to the MS Word file (later sometimes Open Office, much later Libre Office). But now for many paper projects DTP isn't needed. One click export of PDF. For a while I used a PDF "printer", a program/driver on Windows that could generate a PDF file. The one advantage was being able to "print" page ranges from multiple documents from multiple programs and then when complete, "make PDF file". Tracking and revision was a nightmare.