Re: James Knott's comment: I *generally* agree that text-centric e-pubs are a better (or at least more flexible) choice on tablets, but Bruce's pdf version seemed just fine to me (on a Galaxy 10-S) and I'm an old cranky retiree with astigmatism and such.
I suspect that part of the reason for the aversion to pdfs on tablets is due to poor layout or pdfs that are constructed from scanned pages (some magazines just don't "get" how annoying low res page scans are). Another issue is that the font sizes can be changed quite easily in e-pubs which isn't an option with pdfs. So for smaller tablets (or are those phones? I can't keep up), the pdf is less flexible. I've published five books in the past few years that relied to one degree or another on diagrams, charts, illustrations, etc. that need to have a particular association with text elements. I've tried a number of supposed solutions to converting those to e-pubs (there's even a LibreOffice extension called Writer2xhtml export filters that purports to do this and other conversions), but the whole concept behind "reflow" and other underpinnings that make e-pubs so useful helps prevent them from being adaptable for use with "formatted" documents. As the author stated, if anyone has a good generic solution, I'd love to hear it. I do believe, however, that if the original document is designed reasonably well, and the pdf is produced with tablet reading in mind, it remains the best choice for documents where illustrations are required. Note for the author: One compromise I did make with one of my books was to use a utility (e.g. pdf-shuffler in Linux or similar) that permits bulk cropping of those portions of the margins that serve, as you described, to provide space for binding on one side and hand holding or margin notations on the other. This effectively magnifies the body text area for use on devices like tablets where the readers usually offer space for holding and permit note taking in software. In this manner, there only needs to be one "source" pdf with another "trimmed" one which I simply name filename-trimmed.pdf. I reduced all margins to a much smaller value, and that actually worked quite well, although as someone in this thread said, these sorts of publication work best as actual printed books. -Frank -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/New-LibreOffice-Book-tp4179434p4179544.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe 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
