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Originally Posted by raac
@K-Thom
But how do they make the PDF? Isn't there a Latex-type mark-up language from which you can conduct a conversion? Maybe it's not XML but it's got to come from somewhere.
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A lot of publishers either simply delete them (yeah, D'oh ...) or outsource the PDF creation to DTP studios which keep their hands on the files (yeah, Huh ...?!).
If you take into account that hundreds and thousands of original manuscripts written by hand or typewriter simply got thrown away by the publishers after publication, this has a long, long tradition of disregard for authors.
This was even common up to the late 1960s among comic book publishers. What a loss. At least novels are more easily recreated from old files.