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Originally Posted by Hadrien
As for rlauzon, I guess you didn't understood a single word I said: the right choice is to make no file at all. Make the right file for the right user in an automatic way.
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Yes, I understood you. I'm just not blinded by PDF.
So, what you are saying is that it's better to keep the eBook in a certain format, then, when the user wants to read it, run it through a process that will create an PDF formatted for the user's device.
Why not just keep the ebook in a reflowable format in the first place?
And what happens when you buy your eBooks for you iLiad, but then want to view them on your Palm? We're right back to the problem with PDF.
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Originally Posted by Hadrien
The best choice would be a good reflowable format with advanced formatting support, but there's no such thing
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Yes, there is.
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RTF is way too old and limited with very few features,
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Yet it's far better an eBook format that PDF can be.
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HTML will never look as good as something formatted with LaTeX etc... The best choice would be XML based, yet support advance formatting features.
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Yes, XML would be the best, but you do realize that HTML is just a specialized form of XML, right?