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    • #101236

      I’m having Ingram create epubs. for me. The sample they sent me in a reflow format, even when I reduce it’s size doesn’t contain one whole page of the original book. It flows over to another page. Is there a way that they can do it in a reflow format so that when its reduced you can see an entire page. I am also having them send me a sample of a fixed format but they say that will cost even more. Does that sound right? Any other suggestions

    • #101237

      Your information is too vague to offer much help. For example, what device or software are you using to view the sample? It makes a big difference. I’m uncertain why a fixed-layout ePub would cost more, but, unless this is a textbook or similar, you’re defeating a major benefit of the ePub format.

    • #101240
      Aaron Troia
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      Michele,

      To answer your question simply, no, in the reflowable ebook formats, they cannot because the content is not and cannot be set to a fixed page size like a PDF. That’s kind of the nature of reflowable ebooks, and with so many different ereaders and apps on the market there really is no way to control the literal “page size” in the reflowable books that we see in print because everyone wants their device to be unique and each one has a different screen size. Ereaders also dont really have literal “pages” as we think of them in print (unless you do the fixed layout format, which, unless your book is a textbook, you shouldnt use), you kind of have to think of each chapter of your book as one long block of content, similar to how you would see an article on a web page (and if you resize the window it will reflow the content), ereaders populate the screen with as much content as it can and when you resize the text it just adjusts what content is on the screen. A good example of this, if you have an iPad, is to set iBooks to Scroll mode.

      Hope that was helpful,

      Aaron

    • #101241
      Aaron Troia
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      I just kinda checked out your web page Michele, I’m assuming you’re digitizing your “The Complete Price Guide to Watches” books? I’m not sure the layout, if they are technical manuals or not, but if they are, fixed layout might work for you. In my previous post I wasnt really sure what kind of books you were converting, but the usual rule of thumb for ebook formats is that novel type books should be reflowable while the textbooks and technical manual type books should be fixed layout. Fixed layout tends to be more complex than reflowable and can take more time since everything is fixed, probably why they are charging more, but I’m not sure how Ingram does their conversions.

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