On 15/09/2020 04.40, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2020-09-13 15:44:39 Carlos E. R. wrote:
Well, pdf is designed to display an exact photo of how the publisher designed the pages, whereas epub lets you choose the font, the font size, and the paper size, to anything you prefer.
But there's nothing to keep one from copy/pasting the text from a (text-based) pdf file and reformatting it as one pleases.
It is a pain...
I do that with quite a bit of fanfic and other free literature encoded as pdf files. OTOH, I haven't found an ebook readers on Linux that would let me do that.
The thing is, those are tricks, whereas the epub format is designed for re-flowing and resizing by the user, instantly and easily. The snag is, of course, that as I make the font larger and read without glasses in bed, the pages contain little text and I have to flip pages faster :-P I sometimes generate epub files from Word files created by LibreOffice. It had to be word format, it would not work with LO native format. LyX would not be able to generate them, either. Maybe this has changed, I have to revisit it. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)