RE: Thoughts on rechartering and the future of publications on the web

Hi,
 
I welcome the PDF to EPUB effort; it is definitely needed. I did not mean to be critical of your efforts, grin.
 
Best
George
 
 
From: Dmitry Markushevich (dmitrym@evidentpoint.com) <dmitrym@evidentpoint.com> 
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Subject: Re: Thoughts on rechartering and the future of publications on the web
 
George, 
A valid, original ePUB, composed as publisher intended it to be is preferable of course. However we work with some institutions that have a mandate to provide accessible content. Their workflow involved a convoluted combination of PDF, OCR and Microsoft Word. PDF to EPUB makes things easier :)
Dmitry
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On 8 Nov 2018, at 16:17, George Kerscher wrote:
Hi,

Rather than taking a PDF and converting to EPUB, I would hope we could get
the authoring tool and/or the workflow to produce the semantically rich EPUB
3 natively.

Best
George


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Subject: Re: Thoughts on rechartering and the future of publications on the
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On 8 Nov 2018, at 7:43, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
In my understanding, they use images or PDF files. For
accessiblity reasons, I am not happy.
PDF files can be made as accessible as an EPUB, though admittedly with
some more work (depending on the authoring environment). You will
find that PDF/UA (the PDF Universal Accessibility standard) has been
adopted as a national standard in numerous countries around the world
as an accepted solution for accessible publications.
There are tools (of which we make one) that convert PDFs to semantically
valid EPUBs. In combination with an accessible reader this makes
everything accessible.

Dmitry

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