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Originally Posted by ahi
It seems to me that a large portion of the mobileread membership considers ebooks to be free-flowing and reflowable text, and anything that doesn't fit that description to be a "document"...
... which of course is utterly ass-backwards.
eBook reading devices can only handle barely formatted documents unless they are in PDF format. Books, "e" or "p", are content molded into a specific form... a form that is best suited to the interface to be used for their viewing... whether that interface is a paper sheet of a specific size or an eInk screen of a specific size.
And as fond as some people are of selecting their own fonts, a cleverly (or even half-way competently) LaTeX generated PDF can laughingly achieve far better aesthetics and readability (making the book "disappear" and letting the reader focus the content) than any LRF, ePub, Mobi, or whatever else I have ever seen.
- Ahi
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Utterly ass-backwards ?
An ePub file is easily formatted to PDF the exact way you want it to look, it only requires some extra info about the page header, footer, things like that. While the other way around, PDF not keeping any information about the role of its elements (e.g where does that paragraph end? is this a table? is that a footnote?), is a pain when need to be converted to a reflowable format arises.
So it should be: ePub first, PDF later.