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Ebooks – EXE or PDF?

No doubt – go with PDF. But you might be wondering… “What is PDF?”

PDF is the file extension of Adobe Acrobat files… and a lot of ebooks are published in PDF because it looks better, it doesn’t screw up people’s computers and it’s cross platform (both PC and MACs can read them). And almost anyone with a PC has an Adobe Reader installed on it.

So here I’ll be writing about how to make good looking PDF files and how to create ebooks :)

Cheers,
Saul

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2 Responses to “Ebooks – EXE or PDF?”

  1. LeRoy Martinezs Says:
    January 2nd, 2006 at 11:11 pm

    Hello,
    I just started reading “Olympic Power” and was immediately struck by how

    easy it is to read. Also I really like the plain and simple template with no

    distractions and yet it has all the necessary information.

    My only real problem with PDF’s is the ‘jump’ from one page to the next.

    Can you tell me how I can duplicate what you have done ?

    I have written an ebook and it would be so much nicer done this way.

    Thank you for listening,

    LeRoy Martinez

  2. Saul Says:
    January 3rd, 2006 at 6:48 am

    Hello Martinez :)
    thanks for your words!

    I use Adobe Acrobat to make my pdf files, so if you’re using a different program this tip might not help… If you do use a different program let me know and I’ll find out how to make it work like we want :)

    To set a pdf so that it doesn’t jump from one page to the following while scrolling the file, you need to go in the Edit menu, and select Page Layout, then select the tab where you can choose the appropriate option (“continuous” instead of “single page”), which if I remember correctly is “Display”, or something like that (I’m not on my pc right now so I can’t check – I’m going by heart)

    While *reading* a pdf (if using adobe acrobat reader V. 6 or less) you can right-click anywhere on a page and set the scrolling to your favourite option. With the more recent reader version (v. 7) you need to click on View/Page Layout/Continuous to allow the pages to scroll without jumping from one to the other…

    Tonight, as soon as I’m home, I’ll check again where the options to scroll continuously are, and I’ll edit this post with any corrections :)

    Last but not least, since you enjoyed Olympic Power, here are a few more of the ebooks I published: http://www.howtosell.info/hotnews/ebooks.htm

    Enjoy, and let me know if there is anything else I can do for you!
    Cheers,
    Saul