Comments on: Adobe Digital Editions: Disappointing http://booktwo.org/notebook/adobe-digital-editions-disappointing/ The future of Literature Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:40:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Klaudia http://booktwo.org/notebook/adobe-digital-editions-disappointing/#comment-10796 Klaudia Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:27:39 +0000 http://www.booktwo.org/notebook/adobe-digital-editions-disappointing/#comment-10796 well, adobe digital editions 1.0 was released yesterday. seems, they tried harder... well, adobe digital editions 1.0 was released yesterday. seems, they tried harder…

]]> By: James Bridle http://booktwo.org/notebook/adobe-digital-editions-disappointing/#comment-8 James Bridle Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:52:41 +0000 http://www.booktwo.org/notebook/adobe-digital-editions-disappointing/#comment-8 <p>I take your point, and should have made it clearer that the reader does accept other formats than PDFs - The Sherlock Holmes example I downloaded is XHTML, and not, I think, markedly different from the OEBF, which is XML-based.</p> <p>However, DE treats such files as PDFs - it still separates them into discrete pages, doesn't allow scrolling, loses your place when you resize the window and, worst of all, when you turn a page, it brings down a menu bar which obscures the first line of the new page! </p> <p>My point is, Adobe hasn't created anything new here - it's just a new look for a very old style, and one that deserves to be superceded.</p> I take your point, and should have made it clearer that the reader does accept other formats than PDFs - The Sherlock Holmes example I downloaded is XHTML, and not, I think, markedly different from the OEBF, which is XML-based.

However, DE treats such files as PDFs - it still separates them into discrete pages, doesn’t allow scrolling, loses your place when you resize the window and, worst of all, when you turn a page, it brings down a menu bar which obscures the first line of the new page!

My point is, Adobe hasn’t created anything new here - it’s just a new look for a very old style, and one that deserves to be superceded.

]]> By: Alex http://booktwo.org/notebook/adobe-digital-editions-disappointing/#comment-7 Alex Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:28:53 +0000 http://www.booktwo.org/notebook/adobe-digital-editions-disappointing/#comment-7 This is not correct. Aside PDF, Digital Editions supports a new e-document format called Open eBook which aims at becoming the e-document standard, and it's based on open specifications. Open eBook is neither proprietary nor has it anything to do with PDF. The wrapper format is called OCF and is also based on open standards (it's basically a ZIP container). It is not used for PDF files. You can find more about those proposed standards here: http://www.idpf.org/specs.htm And my initial review of Adobe DE here: http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=8221 This is not correct. Aside PDF, Digital Editions supports a new e-document format called Open eBook which aims at becoming the e-document standard, and it’s based on open specifications. Open eBook is neither proprietary nor has it anything to do with PDF. The wrapper format is called OCF and is also based on open standards (it’s basically a ZIP container). It is not used for PDF files.

You can find more about those proposed standards here:
http://www.idpf.org/specs.htm

And my initial review of Adobe DE here:
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=8221

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