Photo set: The Frankfurt Bookfair 2011
I spent 2 days at in Frankfurt and sneaked in a few photos, whilst walking around.
Posted on 01 Nov around 5pm
Tags: Travel
I spent 2 days at in Frankfurt and sneaked in a few photos, whilst walking around.
Posted on 01 Nov around 5pm
Tags: Travel
If you need to tweak the styles of your ebook created with the iPad in mind then you can (with a bit of magic) set up Dreamweaver as a useful wysiwy(almost)g tool.
Dreamweaver, is, of course a web development and design tool. It will normally handle (x)HTML without any change. It will also allow you to edit other code and even XML. It will not edit the contents of a ZIP file (this is what a normal ePub package is) unless it is unpacked.
So read on to find out what the steps would be.
Posted on 08 Sep 2011 around 12pm • Tagged with: eBooks | How to | Permanent link to this article
New and updated for InDesign CS6
InDesign CS6 has some significant improvements for making ePUBs. Hopefully this little book will explain the basics.
Posted on 08 Sep 2011 around 11am • Read More about this eBook here
Publishers are under increasing pressure to develop workflows that enable their assets to be published to mobile platforms such as the iPad and the Kindle. Many book publishers are already using a variety of methods to create eBooks and where these equivalent print products are very text heavy (such as trade fiction) then this is very appropriate. But under what circumstances would it be better to create an 'app' rather than an eBook?
Posted on 26 Aug 2011 around 5pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Permanent link to this article
BBEdit version 10 has the ability to open the contents of an ePUB file. You can edit the individual components of the ePUB - which, of course is actually a ZIPped file, and then re-save.
But does this actually work without issues?
Posted on 23 Aug 2011 around 1pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Software | Permanent link to this article
I specify to my students that their sites must validate. We are using HTML5. The latest change (I don't disagree with it) is that the rel="lightbox' breaks validation. Why is this and can we fix it?
Posted on 31 May 2011 around 10am • Tagged with: Web Technology | Permanent link to this article
The Adobe AIR application used to be a free download. It was useful because you could edit an ePUB file without needing to unpack it and re-zip it. I used it in my class to show how to edit XHTML and CSS.
Posted on 04 May 2011 around 9pm • Tagged with: How to | Permanent link to this article
This time of the year is good for blossoms I know. But it is also the season when green is intense - fresh and bright.
Posted on 18 Apr around 9pm
Tags: Nature
Getting InDesign (CS5) to produce a decent ePUB format ebook is so problematic, that I sometimes wonder why we are bothering to use it at all! We could after all, use tools to build the components of the ePUB package by hand coding. Dreamweaver is a possibility and Sigil may also be a way to go.
However, one strategy may be to use InDesign as a starting point and then accept that we need to edit the resultant XHTML and CSS. This is the method that I am using, and I am promoting this method with my students.
After a few frustrating sessions recently, I thought I would note down a list of problems that can be solved. This may not be a comprehensive list...
Posted on 07 Apr 2011 around 8am • Tagged with: eBooks | How to | Permanent link to this article
This essay was first published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854. It was collected in The Piazza Tales, Dix & Edwards in 1856.
The Encantadas are actually the Galapagos Islands. There are ten sections that Melville calls 'Sketches'. Some of them refer to individual islands in the group and some sketches cover some general points, such as pirates and castaways.
Each sketch is prefixed with a quotation from Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene which was published in 1590.
Posted on 20 Mar 2011 around 12pm • Read More about this eBook here