After more than a month of waiting, Amazon has finally announced the release of its guidelines for their new format, Kindle Fire 8 (KF8) today. While Amazon’s Kindle Fire 8 format is not ePUB of any kind, Amazon does take…Continue Reading →
There are a couple links to new posts this week I want to share with everyone. Both should help you create better ePUBs. InDesign CS5.5 to ePUB Workflow One is from Colleen Cunningham (@BookDesignGirl) at Adams Media. She shares an image of…Continue Reading →
When converting the InDesign file of a book created for print, you need to be aware of the choices the print designer made, including how and where they have used forced line breaks and forced hyphenation. If these tools were…Continue Reading →
At the 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference (PePcon), Ron Bilodeau shared some great GREP for cleaning up ePUBs that were created using InDesign. You can download a text file of this GREP, a PDF of Ron’s presentation, and an updated…Continue Reading →
This week, Elizabeth Castro released a new ePUB miniguide, From InDesign CS5.5 to ePUB and Kindle. This is the fourth miniguide that Castro has done that builds on her first ePUB instructional manual, ePUB: Straight to the Point. From InDesign…Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Iris Febres, a graduate student in electronic publishing at Emerson College. It is based on a PowerPoint presentation she did in her class that was also a Tweetsentation during #ePrdctn Hour. So . ….Continue Reading →
If you use InDesign or any of the Adobe Creative Suite, you should know about the InDesign User Groups and Adobe User Groups. Both are communities of like minded people connected by use of the same software and a desire…Continue Reading →
There has as been a lot a talk at #ePrdctn Hour recently about font embedding and font obfuscation/mangling. I wanted to provide some resources in case anyone is struggling with the same issues. Embedding Fonts Liza Daley has a great…Continue Reading →
One of the great things about ePUB is that you can create navigational tables of content (TOCs) that have nested content. Essentially your can create drop-down menus in the navigational TOC that will show the subdivisions of your ePUB. Chapters…Continue Reading →
On November 21, 2011, Infogrid Pacific announced the release of AZARDI 7, the latest version of their ePUB reader software. Today they announced the release of ePUB3 Unleashed, a “a highly interactive ePub3. The book is pure HTML5, CSS3, SVG,…Continue Reading →