Thread: Microsoft is getting back into ebooks!
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Old 01-06-2010, 03:57 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
You include both a PDF and an HTML (say) file for the same content, and define the PDF as the "main" file (i.e., as you would do normally with HTML files in an ePUB), with the HTML as a "fallback". I did some test with with that, it should be somewhere in the ePUB forum.

The idea is a reader would show the PDF if it can do that, and the HTML otherwise. The ePUB spec doesn't say the user should be able to choose which version to use, though. Another option is including the PDF as yet another normal file inside the ePUB, and offer the user a link to it in the text, the user could then either continue reading the HTML version or follow the link to the PDF.

Most of the flaws of ePUB people point out are in fact only flaws of ePUB rendering software. Good typography is the responsibility of the reader, not of the book (at least in the current ebook paradigm).
Do any of these PDF *and* HTML in ePub solutions work in practice on any eBook reading devices? They didn't the last time you checked, as I recall...

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