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Guide to Fixed Layout ePubs

A “Fixed Layout” e-book is probably the dumbest of all e-book formats. It’s essentially a copy of an existing book’s layout, and requires the reader to pinch and pan to TRY to read it. Still, some books are OK in that format — photo books, some children’s books, some illustrated textbooks, and some cookbooks. To [...]

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Recover Kodak Photo CD Images

If you have old Kodak Photo CDs, you may want to consider converting them to a current file format such as TIFF, and one way to do that is with GraphicConverter for Mac OS X ($40). Few apps other than GraphicConverter support the defunct Photo CD format, and it can convert a long list of [...]

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Which font for your ePub?

Embedding fonts in Digital Publications can be a license nightmare. When you publish ePubs, where layout isn't as important as in native apps, you should have a look at OpenSource fonts. There is a wide selection of fonts available, which are free for commercial use. And here's the one I recommend, as it reads well on screen:

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Handy e-Book Scripts

One of the more difficult tasks of e-book creation for designers is the often necessary clean-up of the HTML and CSS files created from the page layout program. Using a script to access those files can speed things up considerably. If you’re creating .mobi files for Kindle, the MobiUnpack script lets you drag and drop that [...]

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