Hello,
I am requesting your assistance with a PDF issue relative to eBook creation.
I have written a book who’s length is nine-hundred pages. I used the LaTeX typesetting system (TeXLive on OS X), and pdfTeX, to produce the output in PDF. This book is complex, yet, the output is quite attractive. It consists of parts, chapters, sections, subsections, subsubsections, paragraphs, appendices, a cover page, a table of contents, a list of figures, a list of tables, an index, figures, tables, footnotes, margin paragraphs, internal cross references, graphic objects, some symbols, and a substantial metadata set.
I wish to publish, market, and sell my work as an eBook. I have researched eBooks and eBook sales. I have viewed a few eBooks in the ePub format on iPad and Kindle. I am disappointed with their appearance. I prefer to publish my eBook work in the attractive Portable Document Format. However, my research reveals that people enjoy the reflow and font selection capabilities of ePub, as well as the page turn and continuous flow (page less) features. While these capabilities and features are not important to me, they appear to bring value to the market. This being said, do Adobe have plans to add reflow, user selected font, and continuous flow capability (with supporting popup windows for footnotes) to PDF? Additionally, I wish to protect my work through a form of digital rights management. My perfunctory research suggests that Adobe provide DRM, however, I am not familiar with either its mechanization nor its capabilities.
LaTeX possesses a robust, attractive, and professional feature set that provides a beautiful output. The XHTML feature set does not approach LaTeX’s capabilities. I wish to avoid rewriting my work in XHTML, and creating an ePub with all of its attendant nuances and difficulties. The software conversion tools (LaTeX to ePub, PDF to ePub) produce poor results at best. I would be prepared to delay the publication of my work, if I had knowledge that Adobe were planning to incorporate the aforementioned features and capabilities into the PDF standard. Are you at liberty to share these plans with me? I have not signed an Adobe non-disclosure agreement, previously.
Thank you for your assistance.
Kurt