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Old 04-05-2010, 04:42 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by MarcusStringer View Post
To be honest. I'm hoping with the introduction of the iPad that PDFs will take over .epub as the new standard.

Because Acrobat will actually maintain the look and feel of the Printed Book, Including bookmarks, Hyperlinks, Metadata, and can now include video etc etc... and most importantly maintains columns and table... I think given time the industry will come full circle back to PDF, instead of the jumbled continuous single column only supporting OpenType fonts mess that it is at the moment...
ePub can use Truetype fonts as well as Opentyle when embedding fonts.

As far as PDF goes, let's just say you are way out in left field here. Most readers won't work well with PDF and since epub should work fine on the iPad and most readers, it would be rather bad for business to do away with ePub in favor of the eBook wannabe format that is PDF.
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