Thread: A Comparison of format limitations based on The Hobbit
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Old 04-21-2009, 08:07 PM   #40
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Originally Posted by Godzil View Post
WHY only the ePub version has NO justifications?
This is partially a matter of Reader design, rather than the ebook format. However, when DRM is included you don't have any choice of the Reader. Most ebook Readers allow the user to control things like justification. This is the case with eReader, MOBI and LIT (at least on the Desktop, handheld versions might have fewer options). This is not the case with PDF and LRX. As a genuinely reflowable format, ePub should allow user-override but Adobe Digital Editions does not implement it. Other ePub Readers do allow this, the Calibre Viewer has a per-ebook CSS override option for example. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, if an ePub is DRM-free you can override the CSS by creating a modified version with the layout you want (e.g. using Calibre).
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