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
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 verify formatting 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.
The Author is working for KBufferIndia, one
of the Premier Institutes in E-Publishing.
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