Syllabus
Advantages and disadvantages for different types of digital publications 12 ATAR
Background
- We have looked at different types of publications.PDFs, ePubs. Indd
- Why is one better or worse than another?
Details
ePub (electronic publication)
Advantages
- ePub is delivered as one zipped file
- when opened on small devices are easy to unpack and easy to layout on the screen
- Very user friendly and can be opened easily on many devices.
- Not owned by a large corporation, large market
Disadvantages
- Creating or making an ePub document is not easy to do.
- Creating the zip archive for publishing is also difficult
PDF (portable document format)
Advantages
- Can be opened by most computers.
- Gives you control over the layout and fonts.
- They can be made by many different pieces of software. Word, Excel, Powerpoint., Pages and lots more
- The reader software for PDF is free. Adobe Reader.
- It used to be safe as it was difficult to modify. ie your document couldn't be changed.
- Easy to attach to email and upload to websites without trouble.
Disadvantages
- PDFs can sometimes not display correctly on smaller screens such as smartphones
- It is not free to edit PDFs. You need to buy software to do this.
- Editing PDFs is not easy. It is much easier to edit a word or pages document
INDD (indesign document)
Advantages
- Easy to export to a variety of formats, especially PDF for printing
- Very powerful package that can make a single A1 size page to print for a large poster, or can make a 1000 page book
- You can modify image sizes within inDesign.
Disadvantages
- It is expensive.
- Can be a bit difficult to learn at first.
FOR YOU TO DO
- Make a three column table and summarise the details from above into the table in your own words.
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