[FM Discuss] epub format

[adam hyde]

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 16:38 -0400, Joshua Facemyer wrote:
> Regarding the previous epub format conversation, in case anyone is 
> interested, there's a list at
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_e-book_readers
> 
> of which readers support which formats.  Probably not comprehensive, but 
> good nonetheless.
> 
> It looks like very few listed support epub.  Not that that's a reason 
> for FM to not support it ;)
> 
> Does objavi offer an ereader pdf format?  I don't know if there's a 
> standard of dimensions for ereaders, but it might be good to look into 
> it.  Unless it's already been done :P

you can format pdf for any size with objavi. the big issue however is
that the pdf does not scale nicely in some ereaders and hence makes them
almost unusable. epub is a much nicer format and is based on plain
vanilla xhtml

adam


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