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Old 10-06-2009, 09:03 PM   #58
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Originally Posted by ahi View Post
Isn't that like having your grade-schooler make her Christmas family picture to show her schoolmates using Autocad?
Not at all. One barrier to wider production of ebooks is getting ebook making to be part of the publisher's standard workflow. Right now, must publishers use Adobe InDesign to do typesetting and markup, and generate the PDF files the printer uses to create plates from. If InDesign produced decent ePub output, presto! Save As PDF for pronter, Save As ePub for eBook. And ePub contains all the needed metadata, so it can be the starting point other ebook formats as required, with conversions being done automatically by scripts.

Adobe InDesign producing usable ePub is what we want.
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