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Originally Posted by EowynCarter
Can do.
The real problem there is that some stuff just won't render "as is" on 6" or 5", no mater the format.
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Stuff also won't render
as is on a 6x9 paper book size page. It will require human intervention still. Perhaps less of it, or of different sorts... but still.
Edit: Though I see you wrote "
some stuff". Well, naturally. But most books, technical and scientific ones among them ought to be convertible with relatively few (and even fewer drastic/fundamental) changes into a 6" (or better yet a 8") eBook format using PDF. But more likely, if it is beyond simple prose, only down-converted into HTML or HTML+images.
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Originally Posted by jackau
I agree, pdf is not an Ebook format, maybe in 18 months time, certainly NOT NOW!
E-readers' software need catches up, their hardware is more capable. Then ADOBE is kind enough to give us a FREE software that converts the pdf to a form support by most devices (all ebook makers need is upgrade software to support this new format...)
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Darn! Almost 40 pages of sometimes nuanced discussion when the truth was in front of our noses all along.
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Originally Posted by sanders
I do think that extending PDF as a "container" which has multiple pre-rendered versions is a pretty good idea, and much more elegant than having to keep different files around.
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Any chance you are a GUI programmer extraordinaire?
- Ahi