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Moejoe · 05-21-2009, 08:05 PM

What I'm wondering now is if Indesign/Quark etc, the GUI layout products become more robust and reliable in their outputting of ePub then it's PDF that might be left behind. If the book designers can do everything they could do with PDF and have the final output work on a myriad of devices from smartphones to 10" tablets, then why would they want to use PDF and produce multiple 'fixed-size' versions of the same document? What role then for PDF if you have to target the output to the actual screen-size?

Or is my reasoning faulty? Can the software companies have a reliable 'designers' application that offers true WYSIWYG ePub creation?

05-21-2009, 08:05 PM	#38
Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	What I'm wondering now is if Indesign/Quark etc, the GUI layout products become more robust and reliable in their outputting of ePub then it's PDF that might be left behind. If the book designers can do everything they could do with PDF and have the final output work on a myriad of devices from smartphones to 10" tablets, then why would they want to use PDF and produce multiple 'fixed-size' versions of the same document? What role then for PDF if you have to target the output to the actual screen-size? Or is my reasoning faulty? Can the software companies have a reliable 'designers' application that offers true WYSIWYG ePub creation?