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2023 and manuals still are not available in ePub.
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Musocity, Nice idea but the conversion tool does not provide access to all available ePUB features. Similar to trying to use Band-in-a-Box SGU and MGU files in the plugin or RealBand and discovering not all song parameters transfer.
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A bump to summarize once again the benefits to PG Music and product users of having user manuals available for download in the EPUB file format.
PDF files are terrible when viewed on alternate displays such as a tablet, e-reader or smartphone. EPUB was created specifically to resolve the issue of viewing documents on various displays. EPUB is the most widely supported vendor-independent XML-based (as opposed to PDF) e-book format; that is, it is supported by the largest number of hardware readers.
(1) EPUB is built on the Open Web Platform. HTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript and SVG can be used for content authoring. The PG Music webmaster and documentation group use these tools every day so they will not need much time to become familiar with using them in this context.
(2) Using the Open Web Platform means all formatting technology needed to display a document on screens of all sizes and resolutions is readily available to PG Music.
(3) As a web based document EPUB allows the use of GIF (single and multiple images), JPEG (images), PNG (images), SVG (content documents), MP3 (audio), MP4 (audio), Javascript and many other applications. Expanding the documentation through the use of these applications opens the door to the use of content based tool tips such as multiple GIF images with audio narration demonstrating new features.
(4) PG Music documentation will become an offline resource users can view on any digital device, any time they want to.
Many e-readers and some tablets are offline only devices. I know this is true for both my e-reader and my wife's tablet. I use a USB memory stick to load E-books, updates, music files and videos to these devices.
Last, this request was originally presented in 2017.
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+1, Jim, and thanks for plugging this.
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