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Originally Posted by Sonist
I often deal with both designers and programmers, and the problem is, that the standards, which will allow "manipulating CSS" to make a page look as good as possible in print or in PDF, are far, far in the hazy future.
PDF, however, is here. And it takes a couple of clicks for publishers to export to PDF, and to get a perfect product.
I am sure, there will be different, and/or highly evolved standards, a decade or more from now. The web will look different, and presumably much richer and better. But I don't see it happening in the next 2-3 years.
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I think that's the point I'm driving at. If the output becomes good enough and the creation easy enough so that ePub matches (and maybe surpasses) PDF then PDF itself is pointless - unless you do need a fixed size, I suppose.
The more I think about it, the more I see Sony and Adobe's support for ePub as a sign of things to come. All we need now is an output file-format in major word processors and we're good to go (not so far fetched, Adobe Buzzword exports compliant ePub right now, with graphics and the like embedded).