Depending on the image optimisation settings used when the PDF was created will largely affect the final file size. The epub file is really just a zip file with a. Because the epubs are similar to a website. If you zip a mobi file, you may get a smaller file than the epub. That depends on the format of the mobi that you have. As you must be already aware, an epub file can be converted into any ebook format that you choose - you can consider the epub format as the base for any other format.
I am guessing that the mobi file that you have has the original epub embedded inside it. This is to assist editing tools as direct editing of mobi files is cumbersome. Also, some mobi files contain several versions of the mobi mobi-7 and KF8 to maintain backward compatibility with readers that do not support the latest format. You can find more information about the file formats here. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Collectives on Stack Overflow. In this article, we are going to help you ultimately reduce the file size and answer an important question: Are PDF documents smaller than Word docs?
Continue reading to find out the main element and differences between word documents and PDF files that determine the big file size difference! Plus, how you can make PDF files smaller in size than word docs. This is due to the amount of information they save. PDF documents have a lot more information than Word docs.
If you do not have Ms Word downloaded as software, the colors, typography, and fonts will certainly be replaced by something else. This is actually a major difference with PDF documents because PDF has fonts and various other textual content features integrated with them, which can make the document larger than the original one.
While for PDF, users can add hyperlinks to website or other pages, add buttons to navigate, show or hide content, create a form with text fields fillable, embed audio and video, besides, users can highlight, annotate and comment. Hence, when you print out a PDF, the papers will look exactly the same as you review on the digital copies. Still, you can connect to a Printer in any PDF reader for convenient printing.
But ePub does not, mainly for the issue of copyright on electronic publications. In addition, with its flowable text, the layout will change a great when printing out. Yes, that is the answer. Both has its advantages or disadvantages, so you will need to pick the appropriate format according to your purposes:.
To sum up, ePub and PDF are equally popular but are selected preferably according to different situations. It is not that easy to perform conversions between ePub and PDF within the same program, since it involves a 2-way conversion. The latter generally being cases of poor CSS usage. That's just been my experience though. Your mileage may vary. HI there guys - I have a similar and slightly alarming issue: I have an epub file that at 0.
I have played with calibre 0. I am using optimised gif files. I just changed the mobi output settings to generic rather than Kindle and this then created a mobi at 1.
I know there was a script to remove the epub aspect from a mobi - but the script I have has no effect with these new files. Has anyone else had any experience of optimising mobi files - naturally to try and reduce delivery charges for books. Originally Posted by lenz
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