On 12/05/2018 21:08, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
Per Postel's Law, reduce the stockpile of PDFs littering humanity's
infosphere by generating none except in the increasingly rare cases
where no other format is a better choice.
Good advice to improve the world :-). But unfortunately difficult if not
impossible to follow for now.
As a software user I have a variety of ways to generate PDFs (scanner
apps that generate them as default output for multi-page docs, many apps
'export to PDF', any app can 'print to PDF', ..) and basically no app
that I regularly use has a way (that I am aware of) to create ePubs.
I often get sent PDFs, never been sent an ePub document.
As a Livecode developer, I have ready access to libraries to create and
to read PDFs (ok, need to be a Business License holder for reading).
There is no (AFAIK) library to create ePub; the only ePub reader I can
find (thank you, James Hale) needs some work to pull out the main parts
into a library, and then to make it explicitVariable-safe (and it does
need that - a couple of the complaints it throws up are indeed lurking
bugs, not simply false errors).
So I think we're a few years away from being able to replace PDF with
ePub :-(
-- Alex.
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