From: Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@archidevsys.co.nz>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
Cc: PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: Documentation epub format
Date: Thu, 02 May 2013 15:36:57 +1200
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On 02/05/13 15:23, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 18:27 +0200, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>> I must admit that there is a bit of a disappointement as far as the
>> user experience is concerned: the generated file is barely usable on
>> an iPad2 with the default iBooks reader, which was clearly not
>> designed for handling a "4592" pages book (from its point of view).
> Well, clearly there are mainstream books that have 1000 pages, so it
> ought to be designed for that. It's not clear to me then why it
> necessarily must fail at 4000 pages. I think you might want to run some
> experiments to see what the reader can handle before we start doing
> anything.
>
>
There might be something silly in some eReaders, like reserving 12 bits
for page numbers internally - as 'no one will ever want a book with more
than 4095 pages!'?
Cheers,
Gavin
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