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Originally Posted by Sonist
Thanks, JSWolf. I just looked at the file in Calibre, and it looks good. But am I wrong to assume, that everything your EPUB file does, can be done just as well, with the new version of Adobe?
Just like the web, e-publishing will evolve from mostly text-based, limited design pages, to richer, more print-like look - see for instance the image attached.
A page like this should not reflow, because it will lose its visual effect. And while I know a PDF file will have no problem with it, I am not sure, EPUB can do it (please correct me if I am wrong.)
My point is, why not just use one format, from desktop to ereader, for complex layout pages which should not reflow, as well as for simple text pages which should reflow? The only format I know, which can do all this, is PDF.
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That ePub you looked at looks great on a 6" eink screen and it will look great on a 9.7" eink screen. Take your average letter sized PDF and try to display it on a 6" screne and nowhere will it look good enough. That ePub can have the fonts increased in size and still look good. It reflows very nicely.
PDF has it's place. But that place is not as an eBook format. ePub can do a lot of complex layouts that will look good on different screen sizes. PDF is a fixed size. If you take a look at reflowing a PDF, it tends to look like shite. PDF's stron point is printing. You can give a PDF to someone who can print it as it was meant to be. ePub is meant for reading. Also, PDF is fixed. ePub (wothout DRM) I can go in and make changes to the layout by editing the CSS to have it look as I want. So if someone gives me an ePub with paragraph spaces, I can go in and fix that to how I want by removing them. It's all quite a nice system. PDF is just the way it is.
Also ePub bases it's page numbers on the amount of content. So they are pretty consistent. I can say a specific passage is on page 35 and it will be no matter the size on screen. So if I take my 505 and resize to say medium, that passage on page 35 will still be on page 35 even if I found it on page 35 wen the size was set to small.