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Using Dreamweaver to Edit ePUB eBooks

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.

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Posted on 08 Sep 2011 around 12pm • Tagged with: eBooks | How to | Permanent link to this article

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eBooks or APPS; the publishing choice

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?

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Posted on 26 Aug 2011 around 5pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Permanent link to this article

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InDesign to ePUB Problems: Some symptoms and their remedies

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...

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Posted on 07 Apr 2011 around 8am • Tagged with: eBooks | How to | Permanent link to this article

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iBooks ePUBS now keeps Navigation History

In this technical note about a recent eBook that I created, I wrote about the need to include a hyperlink (back to the page where you came from), on the target page. It seems that this is no longer necessary with an ePUB inside the iBooks app on the iPad/iPhone.

Why? Because in version 1.2 of iBooks, it seems that a history of the navigation pathway is kept while the eBook is open. This is then utilised to display (at the bottom of the page) a 'back to page x' hyperlink, when the navigation items are showing*.

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Posted on 16 Dec 2010 around 10am • Tagged with: eBooks | iPad | Permanent link to this article

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