If you’re like us and love to read, then click here to score tons of free and discounted ebooks. Important: Make sure that the sub-folders are included in the zip archive! Some zip programs will store all the files in the zip without internal folders if you are not careful.Connecting the RIGHT readers with the RIGHT books After editing your ePUB source files you can create a valid ePUB eBook by copying the contents of the ~tmpepub folder to a zip archive and then changing the extension to.
However, note that Apple iBooks® is extremely quirky, so get information on its requirements before trying to create iBooks® ePubs yourself! Making an ePUB file from the source files:Īn ePUB eBook is actually a normal zip archive with the extension. If you turn off the Delete temporary files after publishing option in the Publish dialog page you can edit these files directly with any text editor provided you observe the OPF specifications for ePUB eBooks. When you publish to ePUB the source files are automatically written to a new folder in your project folder called: Help+Manual produces standard ePUB source files that you can also edit and process manually and with other programs for editing and producing ePUB.
The ePUB eBook standard is open, free and fully documented in the International Digital Publishing Forum. Setting the font size encoding to pixels or points will make the fonts fixed size in some readers, which is not what you want in ePUB. To make this possible you must set your font size encoding to either percent or ems in Project Explorer > Configuration > Publishing Options > WebHelp > HTML Export Options. Users want to be able to change the font size in the reader. However, this makes your ePUB files much bigger and you must have permission to distribute the fonts from the font copyright holders! See Managing Fonts in eBooks for details. Some eBook readers allow the users to change fonts for their viewing pleasure, but you have no control over that.Īdobe Digital Editions and some other eBook readers will display your font faces if you embed them in the reader. Your text will be displayed using the font setting in the reader. You can't choose your font faces for most readersĪpple iBooks® and many other eBook readers use their own font faces and may ignore the font settings in your project. If you have separate style settings defined for screen and print view then the print view settings will be used in ePUB. Most of the style settings in your project will be used in ePUB eBooks with the exception of the font face (see below).
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