> With Geoworks Bindery, inexpensive books of customized, electronic
> information can be created quickly for viewing on any device running the
> GEOS(R) operating system, such as the Casio and Tandy PDAs and the Sharp
> Electronics PT 9000 personal information assistant.
> The Geoworks Bindery authoring system, available by the end of the year
> directly from Geoworks for $149.00, consists of a non-technical, easy to
> use authoring tool for the desktop that requires no programming.
> Electronic books can be viewed on any GEOS-based mobile device or CCD with
> the Geoworks Book Reader, which is being distributed free by Geoworks and
> will be preinstalled on upcoming GEOS-based devices.
My biggest question is will it be more like Adobe Acrobat or a WWW
browser? I.e., in Acrobat, everything is a page image with a set page
size and margins. If you print it out, it looks very nice; but
viewing it on the screen can involve a lot of scrolling left and
right and up and down to read the text that doesn't fit in your window.
The text is *not* reformatted to fit your window.
On the other hand, in HTML, you specify that text is to have a
particular attribute (heading 1, heading 2, emphasized, etc.), but
the actual layout is handled by the browser and is done to fit the
window. Resize the window and the text is reformatted. It is very
much like using Help on Windows or GEOS.
Can graphics be included in the document? What formats? GIF? How
about sound?
What is the layout language? HTML wouldn't be a bad choice.
When will it be available? Information, I want information!