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Old 05-04-2009, 03:49 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by dauwhe View Post
I think the cost to make an eBook is too small. Yes, the print book is essentially always delivered to the printer as a PDF, made from a page layout program like Quark or InDesign. And the publisher will typically send us this same PDF (if we're lucky we get the InDesign file). But it's a long way from PDF to XHTML and ePub. Lots can go wrong:
Yes - but it should be possible to create XHTML and ePub not from the PDF - but from the original source, shouldnt it?
Or at least possible to extract the text (or have the complete text in advance) and re-format this one...
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