Save the date! PePcon (the Print + ePublishing conference) will take place June 5–8, 2016 in San Diego. And, you save $200 with combined Early Bird Pricing and special end-of-year discount. Just use code BFRI. This offer expires December 31. At…Continue Reading →
Chad Chelius is back with what has to be one of the fastest turnarounds in script development. Last week’s scrollable-sidebar for fixed-layout EPUB3 and Publish Online is now a script. Last week, I wrote up a post on EPUBSecrets.com describing a…Continue Reading →
Professional development for #eprdctn developers This week’s #eprdctn hour was all about what we read, where we go for advice, how we cope. And don’t forget: you can suggest a topic for an upcoming #eprdctn hour, or offer to host one…Continue Reading →
At the InDesign Conference in Denver last month, Chad Chelius demonstrated how to add a scrolling sidebar to the Fixed-Layout EPUB exported from InDesign. This is one of my favorite iBooks Author widgets – it allows for a practically unlimited amount…Continue Reading →
After a couple of weeks without a roundup, we have an abundance of reading, ideas, tools, and conference news. Let’s get to it! ebook Frontmatter, Including Page List Joshua Tallent continues his series on best practices for formatting frontmatter. His…Continue Reading →
Page List — an ebooks’s cross-reference to the print edition’s pagination — is an EPUB3 standard, but it’s a bear to implement coming from an InDesign workflow. Laura Brady (@LauraB7) of Brady Type introduces a time-saving pair of scripts from…Continue Reading →
InDesign’s Object Styles contain multitudes of possibilities to streamline EPUB export. At the InDesign Conference in Denver last week, I saw a demo that used Object Styles to automatically style unformatted text. Follow these steps: In Object Style Options, choose the Paragraph…Continue Reading →
Did you install El Capitan and now your Kindle Previewer doesn’t work as expected? Are you getting a Java error? Here’s the solution: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572?locale=en_US This is one of those errors that has been around for a while but doesn’t…Continue Reading →
If you sideload a .MOBI to to your iOS device, you’ll be disappointed; functionality and appearance are terrible. In fact, you don’t sideload a .MOBI. What you want is a file with the . AZK extension (book.azk). It’s a mildly convoluted…Continue Reading →
This is the first in a series of posts exploring how style sheets export to EPUB. This first discusses Nested Styles; subsequent posts will look at GREP styles, and then styles called out in the Object Style definition. We all…Continue Reading →