Kristin Brodeur tells how she won the ebookcraft challenge Starting in 2016, the ebookcraft conference has included an ebook design challenge, “So You Think You Can Code.” In 2017, the winner was Kristin Brodeur of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In this…Continue Reading →
Here at EPUB Secrets we are very lucky to have a broad, global community of smart developers who want to share their R&D with us. This Guest Post is from Jiminy Panoz, French ebook developer extraordinaire. I love modern CSS….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 →
Earlier this week, @snew_pleop asked the #eprdctn thread why fonts were not appearing as expected in iBooks. I wrote back, suggesting he check that the following is in the content.opf: <meta property=”ibooks:specified-fonts”>true</meta> I also mentioned that InDesign doesn’t write that line into…Continue Reading →
When faced with ridiculous deadlines and last-minute, messy copy from editors, designers may resort to bad InDesign habits. Here are some basic InDesign best practices that are especially important to follow when the file will be exported to epub. While there…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 →
We are officially launching the ePUBSecrets blog today, a new blog to help you with all things ePUB. This blog was the brainchild of David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion, the fine folks behind InDesignSecrets. As speakers and trainers of designers, production…Continue Reading →