EPUB Essentials
This is a hands-on, practical workshop on how to use EPUB, intended to give people within publishing the knowledge and skills to allow them to maintain, correct and enhance EPUB files. The course will include opportunities to discuss your real-world EPUB problems and give you the tools to solve them.
The course will include common problems with practical demonstrations and will show you:
- how to best take advantage of the EPUB format
- how to solve common EPUB problems
- how to insert audio and video into EPUB files
- resolving formatting issues with CSS
- how to maintain EPUB files
- how to ensure that they covert well to the Kindle.
Note: in order to take this course, you must have some experience of HTML, XML and CSS. You will also need to have some familiarity with the EPUB file format.
You will gain hands-on experience on either an Apple Mac or PC, which is pre-loaded with all the latest software, including Adobe CS 5.5.
Programme
- What is EPUB?
- Industry standards – the IDPF
- Open Publication Structure
- Open Package Format
- Open Container Format
- Builds on existing standards: XML, (X)HTML, CSS, Zip Files and DTBook (and why to avoid it)
- Hands on: extracting the contents of an EPUB file, the parts and the relationships between them
- Design and development techniques
- (X)HTML techniques – limitations and possibilities
- Design for multiple platforms
- Stylesheets: CSS and XPGT (and why iBooks doesn't need it)
- The metadata files, package files and table of contents files
- Hands on: creating a simple EPUB file from scratch and restyling the contents
- Tools
- Fitting EPUB into your current environment
- EPUB-specific development software
- Starting from XML
- Demo: automatic creation of an EPUB file from XML
- Hands-on: EPUB from InDesign
- Summary: tools are not a panacea
- Fitting EPUB into your workflow
- An additional output format
- Relationship to XML first workflows
- Who creates the EPUB file and how
- Tools and conversion services
- Backlist vs frontlist conversion
- Demo: service demonstration
- Summary
- The standards are evolving
- Audio and video
- Amazon and EPUB (or not).
Who will benefit from this course?
Production staff involved in the creation of e-books and designers using software, such as InDesign, to create EPUB format e-books.
Note that most of our short courses can also be run as in-company events.
- Dates: 06 November 2012
- Duration: A one-day course
- Price: £385+VAT
- A number of discounts are available
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