This is a guest post from Tzviya Siegman, co-chair of the W3C Publishing Working Group. epubcheck needs you Do you use epubcheck? Most developers who have even thought about EPUB rely heavily on epubcheck, the open source validation tool for EPUB….Continue Reading →
This is part of a series of posts aimed at people who are new to ebook development, or people whose work touches on ebooks but for whom this world is a bit mystifying. Please feel free to suggest blog post…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Franco A. Alvarado is a freelance ebook developer and a project manager at a Boston-based academic publisher. Maybe you’ve seen this script before: import re i = 0 def replace(m): global i i +=…Continue Reading →
So you’ve made an EPUB from InDesign and it looks reasonably okay. Can you ship? Well, you can do anything you want but I would suggest that there is still some heavy lifting that must be done before you send…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Simon Collinson (@Simon_Collinson), a digital editor at Canelo Digital Publishing, where he corrects all the OCR. If your workflow is anything like mine, you have a toolkit of regular expressions you use to clean…Continue Reading →
Have you poured a long, complex Word file with hyperlinked endnotes into InDesign only to find their interactivity disappeared? Or maybe you managed to salvage the link to the endnotes but now you are wondering why there is no backlink…Continue Reading →
Amazon has released a new version of Kindle Previewer, the tool many developers use to convert EPUBs to MOBIs. It’s available for Windows and Mac OS. Since it’s still in Beta, I won’t replace my existing Kindle Previewer version (2.941). Here’s…Continue Reading →
PePcon 2016 PePcon — The Print + ePublishing Conference — will be in San Diego from June 5–8, 2016. From now until December, you can sign up and save $200. Use code BFRI. #eprdctn hour This past Wednesday saw a Dumb Question Amnesty hour…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 →