PDF vs. EPUB
Summary: the most famous format for the document transfer over the internet ,PDF is facing competition from EPUB due to its inability for reflow able content support.
After the PDF popularity for the document handling purposes the structure of the internet infrastructure has increasingly introduced applications to support this format. The PDF being the finest and the best format for the document handling has also faced the challenges of the changing display devices market. Now there are display devices available of all kinds major of them have support for the internet applications. The problem is that the PDF format is not the optimized format for all these devices. The technology like OCR makes it possible for the users to convert the PDF documents into many other formats but is not able to support the display device problem solution. Now there are software’s to convert PDF to text Mac ,EPUB, PPT and many other formats. Among all these formats the EPUB format is the most versatile one ,let’s take a close look at its features.
Electronic Publication or the EPUB as commonly known is a open ebook standard available for free by the IDPF. This format was designed to overcome the drawback of PDF not being able to support multiple display devices. EPUB is totally able to support the format of reflow able content that means it is able to optimize content text to meet the requirements of the display device. The files having this format have an extension name .epub and are actively being used for iPad applications. Along with the flow content feature support this format has the ability to support the content of fixed layout type. This format is available in four specifications namely the EPUB Publications 3.0, EPUB Content Documents 3.0, EPUB Open Container Format (OCF) 3.0 and EPUB Media Overlays 3.0. You can convert any PDF file into EPUB format using any Mac PDF to EPUB converter which is easily available over the internet.
The EPUB format has some criticism associated with it as well and they are not formally known.
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