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And therein lies the rub. FXL specs are pretty much device-specific. The FXL that INDD outputs is pretty much Apple-centric, although it also works on Kobo, because Kobo simply took Apple's standards and made them work therefor. It was a smart move on their part to snag distribution. But I have no idea if the fxl that works on an iPad will work on the millions of other ePUB-reading devices that are out there. That's not been my understanding, but it's not something I've delved into. Hitch |
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Thanks, Hitch. That was very much my point: PDF is a true standard that can be read on any device. FXL isn’t.
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But, if the PDF is created t be letter sized with headers/footers and wide margins, then on a lot of small portable devices, the PDF is going to display very poorly.
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@Hitch, have to respectfully disagree, at least in terms of what I see around my haunts.
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While true, anyone who creates a letter sized PDF that is intended for use on an ereader or phone is a fool and they need to learn their craft.
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That's not relevant here, though. The page of the OP's ebook is a digital copy of the page of the printed book. That's pretty much mandates that one requires a reasonably large screen to read it on.
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Textbooks, in recent decades, do tend to be rather large. Even a half century ago, my school textbooks were larger than my dad's college textbooks. This day and age, publishers desiring to publish both print and electronic editions of textbooks should design the book for the electronic edition first and then port to print. I reviewed my dad's college textbooks that I have, all engineering topic full of diagrams and formulas. They were all single column text on pages with a diagonal measure of 9-10.5", the size of the smaller current iPad Pro. They were all very functional and all would have been easy to convert to PDF had they been produced today in the likes of InDesign. My high school and college textbooks were often on larger pages with 2 columns. This is a style that should no vanish completely from the textbook world. |
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