Straight to the Point: Creating eBooks for the Apple iPad and Other Ereaders
Almost overnight, EPUB has become the favored standard for displaying digital text on ereaders. The EPUB specification is a powerful method for creating gorgeous ebooks for EPUB-capable readers such as the iPad, Nook, and Kindle. Alas, it is far from perfect, with frustrating limitations, sketchy do...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
[Place of publication not identified]
Peachpit Press
2010
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009629067706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Print vs. ebook vs. website
- Static vs. Dynamic
- Appearance
- How it's read
- The order of things
- Formats, durability, and batteries
- Searchability
- Highlighting and sharing passages
- Copy protection
- Buying new books
- What is EPUB?
- Navigating a sea of ereaders
- Anatomy of an iBooks page
- Who is this book for?
- using Word to write EPUB
- Styling your Word document
- Setting up styles in Word
- Applying styles
- Saving Word files as HTML
- Preparing HTML files for EPUB
- Using a text editor
- Declaring the file to be XHTML, not HTML
- Moving style data to its own file
- Declaring the language used
- Adding quotation marks around attributes
- using InDesign to create EPUB
- About using InDesign for EPUB
- One file or many?
- Styles in InDesign
- Creating styles
- Applying the main Body style
- Applying headers, quotes, and other special styles
- Replacing local formatting with styles
- Drop Caps and Nested Styles
- Add images
- Placing an image
- Creating text wrap within the flow
- Add links
- Creating a style for links
- Hyperlinks
- Cross-references
- Create a navigational TOC
- Preparing your book in order to create the navigational TOC
- Creating a Table of Contents Style
- Add metadata to your ebook
- Export EPUB from InDesign
- Exporting EPUB from InDesign CS4
- Exporting EPUB from InDesign CS5
- Inside an EPUB file
- Unzipping an EPUB
- The files that make up an EPUB
- The mimetype file
- The META-INF folder
- The OEBPS folder
- XHTML and CSS files
- The toc.ncx file for the navigational TOC
- Writing the content.opf file
- Creating the cover
- Zipping and testing
- Organizing files before rezipping
- Rezipping after edits
- Getting the new EPUB file to the iPad
- Further editing, rezipping, and testing.
- Validating your EPUB file
- Converting EPUB to Kindle's Mobi
- Advanced EPUB Formatting
- Ensuring ereaders use your CSS
- Cleaning up InDesign EPUB files
- How InDesign writes XHTML
- How InDesign writes CSS
- Fonts in your ebook
- Choosing fonts
- Fonts available for ebooks on the iPad
- Ornaments, dingbats, and symbols
- Using non-English fonts
- Embedding fonts
- Controlling text alignment
- Keeping elements together
- Controlling a header's position
- Keeping captions with their images
- Setting widows and orphans properties
- Setting page break options
- Drop caps and small caps
- Having CSS mark the first letter and line
- Tagging the first letter and first line explicitly
- Controlling spacing
- Controlling indents
- Formatting short lines
- Borders and backgrounds
- Creating a sidebar
- Hyphenation
- Adding soft hyphens
- Using left-aligned text
- Working with images
- Size
- Wrapping text around images
- Wrapping text around sidebars
- Creating links
- Creating tables
- Video in your ebook
- Creating your video
- Adding code for the video
- Index.
