Fixed Layout eBook Conversion

Fixed-Layout as the name itself indicates, is a layout technique used to retain the look and feel as that of its source file. This technique best suits for Children books, Photography books (like tourism guides which contain maps) and Cookbooks since they contain illustrations rich in color, a pleasing background art, and fancy fonts. Aesthetics are more important for the books of this kind. The other category of books are flowing books where the text flows (meaning that text adapts itself to the screen size) without having the reader to scroll up or down (left or right). We cannot fix a paragraph to be at a certain position in flowing books. If we happen to increase the font size, that paragraph may move to the next page. But this is not the case with fixed layout books, we must fix a paragraph to be at a certain place. We cannot increase or decrease font size for fixed layout books; we must fix the type size (font size) at the beginning itself. Each retailer has their own fixed layout format and hence a separate file is to be created for each retailer.