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Old 05-05-2009, 07:24 PM   #104
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Originally Posted by davidspitzer View Post
I dont understand the hoorah over epub, isnt the target format really Acrobat for a large screen device to preserve the newspapery (i made that word up) and text book look and feel?
I am with you on this.

PDF would be the best format for a large screen, since it can preserve the fonts and layout as the publisher intended them to be. Like a printed page, if you will. If there is screen-size standardization, then we are set.

Ideally, PDF would have been an open source format, but it's not, and it's the best I've seen out there.

I don't get the need for yet another format, like EPUB, which seems to bring less to the table, to boot.
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