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Because I half-jokingly suggested PDF as a solution.
But it's being criticized with the usual straw-man argument. First, people assume PDF means "PDF designed for a letter or A4 page size", when it could be designed for anything from a post stamp to a hignway sign (or even more). Second, and most important here: if the point is to show a page full screen, what the h**k has to do what the physical page size of the PDF is? I'm just assuming the book is just pictures, no text to reflow, just pictures, full page/screen pictures. |
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01-26-2021, 02:37 PM | #65 |
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Yes, but if a PDF is really designed for a 160 x 160 palm, or a 4.3" Sony Ericsson Xperia Android phone, it may look rubbish on a larger screen. It's also not the best container for simply images. A multipage TIFF does that better and eink ereaders can have CSS to sensibly rescale images. The result of attempting to display a PDF is model dependent and unpredictable. Though of course probably no ereader supports multipage TIFF which is arguably a better format for a scanner to OCR than PDF, which might really be TIF inside, as PDF is an envelope that at the highest level defines a physical page size. Then each page can have multiple layers of postscript Text and vectors and images.
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The whole PDF thing--I'm sorry. I don't give a flying s**t (now, that needs asterisks!) what size the "page" is made to be; it's not going to fit this device or that, or the next one. Now, I realize that this particular book is purportedly images, with no text, so...sure, it probably matters a crapload less. But not if he wants to sell it on Amazon, iBooks, B&N, Kobo, etc. All of those require ebook formats, not PDF. I read non-fiction stuff ALL the time. I need to, to keep up with my biz, tech, new hardware/software and all that. I'm forced to read many of these in PDF and I gotta say, no matter what the progenitor does, it's a miserable damned reading experience on most devices. I have a Boox; I have an iPad (5th Gen); I have a Fire 10"; I have all the other usual suspects, Oases, yadda and I have tablets of various sizes that are Droid. It's just less than fun to try to read a PDF on any of them. It's all that constant tap-zoom, pan-scan read; pan-scan read; pan-scan read; page-flip. Tap-zoom, pan-scan read; pan-scan read; pan-scan read; page-flip, lather-rinse-repeat. That's all I'm saying. For a book that is ONLY Images, then, that might be fine, particularly if...well, if the readers would be inclined to zoom for detail, anyway. Sorry, didn't mean to whinge. Reading PDFs on devices is a bit of a hot-button item for me, even without my obvious business biases, because, as I mentioned, I read a LOT of them on tablets/phones/readers and it just sucks. And yes, if someone designed a PDF to be read on a smartphone, with larger text, that would be awesome sauce, but then, what happens when you move it over to a tablet and now the page is 1/3 the size of the available screen? No bueno, kiddos. Hitch |
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I thought I've read multiple times that amazon "print replica" books a made from PDF.
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But nothing else available will do any better with a book that is nothing but full screen images.
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And again, as far as sliders, etc.--to me, that is really worthless when you have no choice but to pinch-zoom and pan-scan. To me, that's a torturous reading experience. It's fine for, say, 3-5 pages and you can tolerate it for up to 10, but after that, on densely typed content, it's...not agony, but it's beyond tedious, IMHO. Hitch |
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