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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Choosing PDF as the preferred format seems very odd to me, but YMMV. I would never use fixed layout myself, because I often reread something years later and my preferences might have changed by then. With reflowing formats I can still have the book look exactly as I want at the moment, but also be able to easily change things (such as font size or line spacing or margins) later without reformatting the entire book.
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As an experiment, I recently tried formatting an ebook as an EPUB (the original source was OpenDocument Text). First, I tried doing it within LibreOffice (it has a "save as EPUB" option) and the results were not very good. Among the issues: It would put a line break between an upper case letter and the rest of the word, would not center items that were centered in the original text (they were formatted with styles), would display horizontal lines I was using as a change of scene marker, and allowed widows and orphans within the ebook. I then tried converting a PDF to EPUB with in Calibre and the results were even worse (as as having double spaced lines which were not in the original).