It seems hard to believe, but sometimes I still come across ereader bugs that just make me really scratch my head. Here’s just one of them. Applying a width of 100% to the <body> element is a very common CSS…Continue Reading →
Great news for ePub creators who use InDesign to create their ePub files. At Anne-Marie’s and other Adobe InDesign forum member’s request, forum admin Bob Levine has just set up an InDesign subforum dedicated to ePub discussions! Visit the InDesign –…Continue Reading →
99 ePub rendering problems on the wall take one down, pass it around 98 ePub rendering problems on the wall Easily the most frustrating part of designing and developing ePub projects, the various rendering issues on each and every device…Continue Reading →
Douglas Waterfall, senior InDesign engineer/architect/epub nerd, has a Twitter account that he barely uses. He’s tweeted only twelve times, at the time of this writing. So when he tweets, it means he’s motivated. Last week, he tweeted this: Interested in…Continue Reading →
Typekit, the popular web font provider, has recently been moving to allow embedding of some of their fonts in InDesign and InDesign-generated projects like ePubs and DPS apps. But what about iBooks Author? After some back and forth between Tina…Continue Reading →
Just what does epubtest.org test for? Infogridpacific questions what epubtest.org is really testing Converting an ePub2 to ePub3 file Great overview of the steps needed to convert an ePub2 file to an ePub3 Best practices for Identifying Digital Content BISG…Continue Reading →
the EDUPUB Profile Make ePubs specifically for education? Check out the Draft spec of EDUPUB (via @MatthewDiener) ISBN Checker Cool little app to check your ISBNs by @gabalese Everything you wanted to know about encodings and more Corbas Consulting gives…Continue Reading →
Just what does Google Play do to my book? Not really from this week, but I neglected to add it last week (via Matthew Deiner) GlyphIgo “glyphIgo is a Swiss Army knife for dealing with fonts and EPUB eBooks.” (via…Continue Reading →
Link shorteners have become popular over the past couple of years. Mainly due to twitter’s need for brevity (Twitter now maintains their own service now, the sometimes annoying t.co), link shorteners have also become popular for brands to track activity…Continue Reading →
The size of an ePub file is important. Some retailers— like Kindle’s Direct Publishing program—have very small maximum file sizes or charge you download fees. Each image you add can be—quite literally—costly. But it’s not just that: the size of…Continue Reading →