Register Guidelines E-Books Search Today's Posts Mark Forums Read

Go Back   MobileRead Forums > E-Book Formats > ePub

Notices

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Old 02-21-2012, 09:32 PM   #31
PageLab
Connoisseur
PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
PageLab's Avatar
 
Posts: 70
Karma: 515184
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Brasília
Device: Kindle3, iPad, Nook, Kobo, Positivo Alfa
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jim Lester View Post
it is highly unlikely that a user viewing it would not immediately change back anyway
That's exactly where the issue resides, Jim. The user needs to find the problem first. In this particular case, the user is not the most reliable person to detect problems in the text because he or she has not seen it before. If the problem is not that visible or is mildly integrated into the text - and this is a real possibility - the user would just skip it. You need someone to look carefully for errors. That's the main reason books needs to be revised in the first place. Without the publisher defaults on, it is possible that the user wouldn't even noticed it.
PageLab is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 02-27-2012, 04:43 PM   #32
rjnagle
Zealot
rjnagle knows what time it isrjnagle knows what time it isrjnagle knows what time it isrjnagle knows what time it isrjnagle knows what time it isrjnagle knows what time it isrjnagle knows what time it isrjnagle knows what time it isrjnagle knows what time it isrjnagle knows what time it isrjnagle knows what time it is
 
Posts: 126
Karma: 2167
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Houston, Texas
Device: ipad 1, Nook Simple Touch, Kindle 3, ebookwise 1150
From a publisher's point of view, I found that a reader's default settings wreaked a lot of havoc on image placement and captions. My guess is that 75% of the time the publisher knows the optimal way to present the content on a device. For the 25% of the time that the reader tweaks things, it mainly has to do with font size and to a lesser extent reducing margins to permit maximum word count.....

I don't have a problem with reader defaults overriding publisher defaults on font and size, but the margins make it more difficult to figure maximum width of things. that is a real problem.

As Liz Castro said, support for media queries will fix a lot of these problems.
rjnagle is offline   Reply With Quote
Advert
Old 03-12-2012, 10:37 AM   #33
sueneu
eBook Designer
sueneu began at the beginning.
 
sueneu's Avatar
 
Posts: 26
Karma: 10
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: New Jersey
Device: ipad, nook, kindle
Good documentation and adherence to standards would go a long way to solving these issues and giving readers (and eReading device customers) the best possible experience. Web dev is a useful model, see Baldur Baldassons' post:
http://bit.ly/A5O5Ft
sueneu is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 05-09-2012, 12:55 PM   #34
PageLab
Connoisseur
PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.PageLab ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
PageLab's Avatar
 
Posts: 70
Karma: 515184
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Brasília
Device: Kindle3, iPad, Nook, Kobo, Positivo Alfa
Just as a complement of what we were discussing in this thread, I'd like to share a link to an interesting post by Michael Agresta in Slate Magazine pointing out some possible issues between the design of printed books and their digital counterparts. http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/d...t_.single.html
PageLab is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Tags
embedded fonts, nook, nook color, publisher defaults

Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Forum Jump

Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Touch Nook formatting, publisher defaults do weird things to a simple epub uieluck Nook Developer's Corner 6 11-03-2011 08:59 PM
Touch 'Publisher Defaults' seems broken tomsem Barnes & Noble NOOK 4 06-18-2011 10:20 PM
Classic What happens if I "Reset to Factory Defaults" when I have a rooted nook? chas0039 Nook Developer's Corner 0 11-26-2010 05:52 PM


All times are GMT -4. The time now is 01:15 AM.


MobileRead.com is a privately owned, operated and funded community.