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From: Porrello, Leonard
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 4:20 PM
Subject: RE: Techno-fuddyduddy getting anxious
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The situation is actually much better than you might expect. Help & Manual supports ePUB format and Flare offers publishing for "Mobile (iPhone, Microsoft Mobile, Palm Web OS, BlackBerry and Android)." This means that you can easily take your existing content in either one of these HATs and, in a few minutes, repurpose it for a smartphone or tablet.
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I wondered how long it would take companies that make the tools to figure out they needed to offer publishing methods that output simpler formats. But those of us tied into the Adobe suite are still behind the times (at least not to a "click a button" stage yet).
That said... there are even a lot of third party freebie tools to convert various formats to things like ePUB format (I've been an ePUB reader for quite a few years, and I re-format a lot of stuff into ePUBs with freebie tools).
- V
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