drew wrote: > On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 07:10 -0800, Pedro wrote: >> drewjensen wrote >>> PDF is just another throw back to printing on dead trees in this regard, >>> where the creator of the file sets the size of the layout when the file >>> is generated. >>> >>> This has additional implications, such as page counts and the use of >>> page numbers in a table of contents and index, >>> >> That is a little unfair on PDF! PDF is excellent for archiving documents as >> IF they were printed. It saves on trees and it saves on disk space (compared >> to digitized images of documents). > Hi Pedro, > > 1st - if we continue this, and I would not mind at all, how about we > kick it over to the discuss list? > > But for the moment. > > So we are in agreement - PDF does a great job of replicating the printed > page. > >> The fixed page size and numbering is extremely important when you are >> referring to some portion of a document. It doesn't make sense to say, "in >> the third paragraph of page 20" and then because the text was re-flowed to >> fit in a 3" screen that paragraph is in page 100... > Well, stop thinking that way (hey didn't I adomish against such > statement in a recent email...ah humans we are all schytzoid)... > > Instead of saying "see the scratch mark on tablet 4", use a hyperlink. > It will be just as valid when the pages flow differently on different > devices. > > >> Another big advantage of PDF (when loaded in a PC, Win or Linux, and >> probably on a Mac) is that you can embed the fonts so you know your page >> will look *exactly* like you designed it. Apparently this does not work in a >> Kindle, so it is expected that they will look different because fonts are >> being replaced (as in an epub) > Yup - embedded fonts = hard coding. > > I'm not saying there is no place for PDF and it's like just that there > are other ways to view the world, the new world. > > // drew > >> Just my 2 cents ;) >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Write2epub-tp3732714p3735140.html >> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > > Hi, Group.
I read the whole thread, and came back to this note as a jump-in point. My opinion is epub is fine for portable devices, and that PDF does it's best to duplicate the printed page. My pet peeve (to consider) is that most PDF ebooks that I have used (and couldn't use) were either jpg pages (I had to tweak cups-PDF myself) or just not built to be "Searchable". When I open an e-book for a programming book or a reference book (no matter the format), I'm not looking to read it from cover to cover. I'm looking to find an answer to a problem. I know the keywords that I'm looking for, and I want to search. I don't want to roll through a TOC, I don't want to flip back to an index... I want to !search!. Before my Ubuntu box crashed, I had found a procedure using two Linux tools (one was called "cuniform" I believe). One tool would OCR the scanned graphic pages (for some reason it worked only with 150cpi/dpi scans) and create an XML list of words, and where they were on the page and on what page. The next step was h2-something which would merge the PDF and the XML list and create a "searchable" PDF. Please, continue with the war and peace treaties. I have included my one cent (used to be two cents, until the taxes went up... again). -- -- Barry Smith Secure Computer Services v 980-819-7397 c 704-497-4217 e [email protected] w http://bit.ly/l8QJup DUNS 83-099-9384 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
