MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - local hosting on e-readers

STEM · 01-31-2011, 05:00 AM

If I can find my way to it I will transfer the request, but local hosting possibilities on e-readers was my interest - in order to read free-flowing text and avoid huge re-formatting work.
I rejected pdf more than 15 years ago because it was page-based (IMO many of the problems with Adobe products over the years is that they never left their DTP roots behind), and I considered that for digital use a screen-based format should be free scrolling, free-flowing to window screen width(s).
Programs need to have a clean page turn/scroll to give a satisfactory experience - many do not! I wonder if any one has thought to put a temporary (changing each time the page-down command was given) marker line on a scrolling page to show where the previous page/window end-point was?
Thanks again.

01-31-2011, 05:00 AM	#3
STEM Prospective publisher Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: none	Thanks If I can find my way to it I will transfer the request, but *local hosting possibilities on e-readers* was my interest - in order to read free-flowing text and avoid huge re-formatting work. I rejected pdf more than 15 years ago because it was page-based (IMO many of the problems with Adobe products over the years is that they never left their DTP roots behind), and I considered that for digital use a screen-based format should be free scrolling, free-flowing to window screen width(s). Programs need to have a clean page turn/scroll to give a satisfactory experience - many do not! I wonder if any one has thought to put a temporary (changing each time the page-down command was given) marker line on a scrolling page to show where the previous page/window end-point was? Thanks again.