Introduction of e-Publishing
E-publishing (or) ePub (short for electronic publication) is a free and open e-book standard
by the International Digital Publishing
Forum (IDPF).
Electronic
publishing (also referred to as e-publishing or digital
publishing) includes the digital publication of e-books,
EPUBs,
digital magazines,
and the development of digital
libraries and catalogues.
EPub is a format for digital books. ePub books are text files that are
structured according to the ePub DTD, as defined by the IDPF. Files have
the extension .epub.Valid
.epub files can then be used on any platform or device that supports ePub.
ePub can be generated
in two different modes
Modes in ePub
·
Standard ePub
·
Fixed Layout ePub
Objectives of Standard ePub
·
What is Standard
epub?
·
TextExtraction
·
Editors and Pre-editing / html (or) Xhtml
Conversion
·
What is
CSS?
·
Image
Cropping
·
ePub
Conversion
·
Adobe Digital Editions and Device View
Objectives of Fixed
Layout epub
·
What is
Fixed Layout epub?
·
Text
Extraction
·
Editors and Pre-editing / Xhtml Conversion
·
What is
CSS?
·
Image
Cropping
·
ePub
Conversion
·
Device
View
Standard epub
What is
Standard epub?
Standard ePub has “reflowable text”,
meaning it allows the text to adapt to the size of the display screen. As the
user increases the font size in the device the text will flow according to the display
in the devices.
Text
Extraction
Text from the PDF
is extracted by using Adobe Acrobat or from the indesign file if any.
Editors
and Pre-editing / Xhtml Conversion
Editors (Epsilon, Edit Plus,
Notepad++, etc.) generally provides the features working with element
tags. Syntax highlighting is a basic standard of any editor;
that is, they color element text differently from regular text. Element and
attribute completion based on a DTD. Displaying line numbers is also a
common and useful feature, as is providing the ability to reformat a document
to follow to a particular style of indenture.
What is
CSS?
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
is a style sheet language used for
describing the look and formatting of a document
written in a markup language.CSS is
designed primarily to enable the separation of document content from document
presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.
Image
Cropping
Cropping of the images
from the supplied source PDF using Adobe Photoshop.
ePub
Conversion
ePub files are
generated through WinZip with the help of OPF, html, NCX, and CSS
files.
Adobe
Digital Editions and Device View
The generated ePub file will be viewed in Adobe Digital Editions version
2.0 and devices to verifyformatting and links.
Fixed
Layout epub
What is
Fixed Layout epub?
Fixed Layout epub has “Fixed text”,
meaning the text will gets fixed on the background image.If the user increases
the font size in the device the text will not flow to the next page in the
devices.
Text Extraction
Text from the PDF
is extracted by using Adobe Acrobat or from the indesign file if any.
Editors
and Pre-editing / Xhtml Conversion
Editors (Epsilon, Edit Plus,
Notepad++, etc.) generally provides the features working with element
tags. Syntax highlighting is a basic standard of any editor;
that is, they color element text differently from regular text. Element and
attribute completion based on a DTD. Displaying line numbers is also a
common and useful feature, as is providing the ability to reformat a document
to follow to a particular style of indenture.
What is
CSS?
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
is a style sheet language used for
describing the look and formatting of a
document written in a markup
language. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document
content from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.
Image
Cropping
Remove text from
the background image and capture the single-page as images from supplied source
PDF using Adobe Photoshop.
ePub
Conversion
ePub files are
generated through WinZip with the help of OPF, Xhtml, NCX, and CSS
files.
Device
View
The generated ePub
file will be viewed in devices to verify formatting and links.
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