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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I don't get why publishers feel that PDF is a good digital format to start with to use to make all the other eBook versions. I look at some ePub and I easily see that it's come from PDF and most have stupid errors throughout.
I am currently reading Living Dead in Dallas and I see the following at the top of the CSS for the ePub.
And most the italics have have a missing space before or after. This is what I call a stupid error due to converting from PDF. PDF is not a good idea to use to convert from. I've never seen or read about any way to convert a novel length PDF to anything else without errors being introduced.
There is a digital copy of the book someplace that's not PDF. I don't see why the publishers don't take this (mostly in Word) and use it to generate the eBooks? It would be a lot easier and a lot less errors. Heck, if they used a good digital copy of the final copy, then the eBooks would have no more errors then the print versions.
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I'm guessing that once the ready to print digital file has been created (and PDFs would make a good formatting stable file for that), that is all the publishers keep on hand. If so, this would be a good example of publishers need to adapt to keep up with technology.