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Originally Posted by ahi
It is frightening that you think you are making cogent points.
Publishers have historically done far more complex work than it takes to create professional PDFs. And it takes actually remarkable little effort to create multiple PDFs for devices of multiple screen-sizes. In a day, professional PDFs could easily be created for as many as a dozen different screen sizes.
The solution to poor eyesight is the large-print edition. With PDF eBooks, they are precious little extra effort--so if publishers can manage the task with some print books, there is no reason they couldn't readily integrate the generation of large print editions (potentially automatically included/embedded in the regular edition) into their eBook workflow.
As for ePub (i.e.: reflow formats) not being the problem. As I pointed out to JSWolf, unless you are both a computer programmer and a typographer, you really lack the basis for forming sound opinions on the subject.
- Ahi |
I will try not to be as offensive as you are.
But you making no cohesive points what so ever. In all your previous posts you saying that typesetting is such an art, that no machine can do it
. Now you saying machine generated pdfs of different sizes and resolution are just fine.
Please leave condescending tone about not being a typographer, you don't have to be a composer to appreciate good music or discern the bad, nor do you have to be a publisher to understand if you like book layout or not.
You don't even have to be a programer to see if application is good or bad, that I know as a programer. I always take my customer word for how good my application is.
So as far as enjoying reading experience and layout I can tell you I enjoy many many web sites (reflow format) and have no interest in format that doesn't allow me control of layout on my device.
So take the word of the customer (and other customers whose opinion you carfully ignore) for it, dynamic format is good for us.
I can go on with examples on why reflow is better on Mobile Reading devices, but they are all been listed and ignored, so why.
Ok I cannot resist
Advantages of Mobile Reading as glimpsed from many posts through a span of few years.
1. Portable size format for carrying anywhere.
2. Ability to change font size.
3. Big storage.
4. Arguably - dictionary and notes)
You want to remove top 2, for the typography/kerning which nobody even mentioned before this post?