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September 7, 2014 at 6:41 am #70444
Roger Morgan
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I thought that the PDF specification itself has been an open standard for some years now?

Personally I have no problem handling PDFs on any of my devices, but as Laura mentioned the stumbling block seems to be the difficulty of selling them with Amazon or Apple. I don’t think Amazon’s Print Replica format is generally available to authors? Anyway, InDesign Magazine, O’Reilly and Zinio (I think) seem to manage quite well selling PDFs.

So what’s the real reason for this poor man’s PDF format which has virtually no interoperability?

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