Standard Layout A standard ebook (EPUB) uses real - time
flowable text that can be read on any eReader.
Such a format — ePub and Mobi are the most popular — presents information as «
flowable text», that is, the information is one continuous page rather than discrete pages like you see in a book or a PDF.
Not exact matches
If you're using InDesign to export to epub, it will embed fonts... but you don't want to embed fonts for the main body content; that
text needs to be
flowable it will adapt to readers set preferences (otherwise they will complain that your book doesn't look like all the other books on their kindle).
E-readers are equipped with options to increase and decrease the size of the font, which means that e-book files are designed to be «
flowable,» i.e. the location of the
text isn't fixed like it is on a printed page.
For long books that are predominately
text such as novels it would be a big task to layout every page so you might prefer to use applications like Apple's Pages or Microsoft's Word which create «
flowable» e-books.
mobi) feature a dynamic (
flowable) layout for
text and images.