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• Test-driving Apple Pages with ePub export (30)

  • 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?
  • Frank Lowney: For my first test file, I used Apple’s sample page by saving it under a different name. The other technique suggested is to import the styles into a new blank template but that...
  • Richard Latimer: FWIW, I think: Within iBooks page breaks occur at the start of a new file. iBooks does not honor page-break-before or page-break-after attributes in CSS. So, to get a page break in...
  • Willem-Jan van Zeist: Funny thing, when I opened my exported epub in the Stanze app on my iPhone, I thought it didn’t work. Turnes out the .epub forces black text, which is difficult to see...

• HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith available as an EPUB (4)

  • 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
  • Liza Daly: Thanks! (It’s in the metadata, of course!)
  • Joseph: Aha! I had thought it was you guys, but I couldn’t find any credit in the book. Looks great!

• 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...