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• Test-driving Apple Pages with ePub export (33)

  • Michael Campbell: Apple’s iBooks ignores most paragraph tag code, but it respects div code. So I’m not surprised Pages is using div tags for formatting. ePubs created in Pages will...
  • Laertes13: Nevermind, sorry for wasting your time. For some reason when copied the original manuscript from Word into Pages, the paragraph returns were carriage returns. I simply used Find and...
  • Laertes13: Sorry, I didn’t read the code disclaimer for comments, let me try again. I just tried exporting from Pages to epub. When I looked at the XHTML file in Dreamweaver, before the end...
  • Aaron Shepard: Walt, I can understand your frustration about the requirement for Apple hardware and software, but the entry cost into this world is just $600 for a Mac Mini, which even includes a...
  • Jeff Ferrell: Has anyone had luck with the Stanza reader recognizing Pages ePub font sizes? From my tests, they don’t seem to translate. Anyone have any idea why not?

• HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith available as an EPUB (6)

  • Jeremy Keith: Thank you so much for your work on this, Liza. You guys did a fantastic job.
  • Martin Bayly: Way hay! an ebook that costs less than the print book!
  • Nic Boshart: Been hearing lots about it, can’t wait to read it! Also curious to check out the code.
  • bowerbird: i’ll take a good hard look at it… -bowerbird

• DocBook-XSL 1.76.0 released for testing with many EPUB enhancements (1)

  • Keith Fahlgren: Another exciting new feature is the addition of a Webhelp output: A new browser-based, cross-platform help format with full-text search and other features typically found in help...