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Originally Posted by JSWolf
With ePub, I can edit it to fit my needs, with PDF, if it doesn't fit my needs, then it's useless. How is useless better then something I can edit?
My needs may be something as simple as changing the margins because I prefer no margins. Or changing the base font because I prefer a different font. But PDF gives me none of these options. It is as it is and if it as it is, it is not suitable, then it is useless. That is one major reason why PDF will never work as an eBook format.
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Jon, respectfully, I cringe everytime I see you write that PDF will never work as an ebook format. While it may have its limitations for you, to dismiss PDF as an ebook format is still debatable.
While you and a few other MR enthusiasts may have the skill to modify the xHTML/CSS of ePubs to suit your formatting needs, I don't have that skill. Could I learn it? Sure, I can. (I'm still trying to find a post to explicitly tell me how to embed my own preferred fonts in an epub btw) But what about the less-than-sophisticated person that reads epub ebooks and wants to change margins or base fonts or anything else within an epub? Are they expected to learn how to do this just so that epub ebooks will fit their formatting needs? Certainly, no ebook device today lets you change margins or even the preferred font for an epub ebook. Can Calibre do this? I don't know but, again, are we expecting folks to have the know-how to do this just so that they can get the formatting they desire out of an epub?
As I've said in previous posts before, there is a place for both epub and pdf ebooks to take advantage of their inherent strengths. While epub is good enough for novels, it doesn't appear to have the sophistication to be as visually appealing as pdf where layout is important such as for magazines, etc. Epub is still emerging and pdf is not going to disappear as a format for ebooks.