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Month: September, 2010

Cover enhancements in Ibis Reader

Covers are in the spotlight for the two updates we’ve just released for Ibis Reader. The first adds small versions of the covers to your web library:

In hindsight, this was an update we should have implemented ages ago, as it makes the library so much more attractive and usable. You should see a cover image [...]

Epubcheck developer build with check for unmanifested files: available for testing

Apple’s iBookstore requirement that all files in the .epub must be listed in the OPF manifest has caused a lot of headaches for content producers. There’s no such requirement in the actual EPUB 2.0 specification, and therefore no test for this condition has been in epubcheck.
However, the vast majority of cases where this [...]

DocBook-XSL 1.76.0 released for testing with many EPUB enhancements

Version 1.76.0 of the open source DocBook-XSL stylesheets, which convert DocBook documents into a variety of outputs including PDF, HTML, and EPUB, has just been released into the wild for testing. It includes a number of EPUB enhancements and bugfixes that we’ve contributed over the last year, so we’d love to have your feedback.
DocBook-XSL uses [...]

HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith available as an EPUB

We were very happy to develop the EPUB version of HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith, the first title from A Book Apart. A Book Apart is the publishing offshoot of A List Apart, an organization hosting a fantastic digital design blog (including Web Standards for E-books by Joe Clark).
We love working with [...]