The reaction here was, if I got it right, to the idea that you could include the PDF for a book (the same one? a different one?) within an EPUB. The first response I got was from Eli, who encapsulated the strangeness of the hughmcguire Whoah. “Anyone know if you can include a PDF for download in an EPUB?” Question 1: Can a PDF be included as an attachment in an EPUP? (and will the EPUB still validate?)Īnd to answer, I went to Twitter and posted the question with the #eprdctn hashtag (the hashtag you should use and follow to and participate in discussions among ebook production people): So this means that linking to a PDF on a server somewhere isn’t going to work - since there is no network connection. The user is creating educational EPUBs, which reference PDFs as supporting materials to the book, and she is distributing these EPUBs on CD to rural areas with no network connection. This is a question that I hadn’t seen before, and I wasn’t sure:Ī) whether PDFs could be included in an EPUB as an attachment/include, and still validateī) whether PressBooks would do as it was told if you just treated a PDF as an image and uploaded it to a chapter - and exported to EPUBī) whether there might be a “better” or different solution I misinterpreted what the user wanted, and *thought* the question was: “Can I include a PDF for download in an EPUB?” For some thoughts on that question, see below. My plan is to burn the epub file with a reader on a CD and have direct links to some pdf files in my CD as well. I got a request from a PressBooks user, who asked the following:
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