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David Rubino
Former Employee
Oct 15, 2019

Top feedback summary for October 15

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HotCakeX
MVP
Oct 26, 2019

mingle105 

mingle105 wrote:

Please bring back support for epub reader which is one of the best I've used. Also bring the search and contents for pdf in the old edge.

Epub supporting is ending in classic Edge and they're not going to add it to the new one, PDF is a better and alternative format, you can easily convert your Epub files to PDF, almost all books these days offer PDF version.

 

also there is already search in PDF available

 

 

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GraniteStateColin
Iron Contributor
Oct 28, 2019

HotCakeX, EPUB and PDF are entirely different beasts. PDF is page based and includes page-based formatting, a fixed aspect ratio, etc. PDF is for printing. EPUB is flowable, like HTML, and does not have "pages" as such, fluidly changes between portrait and landscape (or any other aspect ratio). Yes, it can be printed, like a web page, but unlike in a PDF, the user can typically change the font size, background colors, etc. 

 

Yes, you could print an EPUB, like a web page, to PDF, but because they're such different systems, that destroys all the flexibility of the original EPUB.

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