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Once you get past the DRM issues, though, presentation issues are a big hurdle, particularly on the desktop. I still haven't found an ePub reader for Windows th
by Lazlo_Nibble 16y ago
Once you get past the DRM issues, though, presentation issues are a big hurdle, particularly on the desktop. I still haven't found an ePub reader for Windows that renders text attractively, and I have an ongoing beef with how most PDF viewers render pages of scanned text (it's basically impossible to display embedded images with a sensible scanned pixel::screen pixel ratio and resampled text scans just look like hell). If Bilo addresses either of these, I'm interested.
- codingthewheel 16y agoRight, I have that same ongoing beef (embedding images is another area where PDFs are completely brain-dead) but if you're scanning pages direct to PDF to produce a professional e-book, you're fighting an uphill battle anyway. On the other hand, scan the material into inDesign, clean it up, typeset it appropriately, and then export that to PDF. This is the way to beautiful PDF typography and it's an area where the PDF format really shines. (And this is coming from a guy who hates PDFs as a rule.)