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Creating a Successful eBook (PePcon 2011)
By Ron BilodeauMay 24, 2011
After my presentation on "Creating a Successful eBook" at PePcon, I got lots of requests for the GREP expressions that I used to clean up my ePub files, so here they are:
(Note: GREP expressions may need to be tweaked slightly depending what program is running them. These are optimized for use in Oxygen)
Some of the expressions were not displaying properly on this page, so I decided to save them as a text file that you can download.
Click here to download the text file.
I have also included an updated version of my PDF handout for this session that you can grab here.
And if you are interested in checking out my updated presentation on Setting up your InDesign files for ePub export (updated for CS5.5), you can grab that PDF here.
Enjoy,
Ron
Categories:
- ebooks,
- epub
tags:
- CS5.5,
- eBook,
- ePub,
- InDesign,
- pepcon
Projects
Bookworm
The free platform for reading EPUB books online from any device.
Integrated with O'Reilly Labs 02/09/09.
First translations added 03/11/09.
Feedbooks integration & one-click addition added 07/29/09.
Beta Projects
Open Feedback Publishing System (OFPS)
Participate in collaborative community feedback to help refine in-progress, open manuscripts like Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or the published Programming Scala.
Released 05/20/09.
O'Reilly Product Metadata Interface (OPMI)
Want to know all we know about an O'Reilly book? Give us an ISBN and we'll let you in on our (RDF) secrets!
Released 02/09/09.
Open Source
DocBook-XSL 1.74.3 with Improved ePub Output
Keith Fahlgren (O'Reilly Media) helped release the stable 1.74.3 release of the open source DocBook-XSL project and improved the EPUB generation stylesheets. Paul Norton (Adobe) and Liza Daly (Threepress) provided very helpful patches.
Released 02/17/09.
DocBook-XSL 1.74.0 EPUB Output
Paul Norton (Adobe) and Keith Fahlgren (O'Reilly Media) have contributed code to the 1.74.0 release of the open source DocBook-XSL project that generates EPUB documents from DocBook. An alpha-quality reference implementation in Ruby was also been provided.
EPUB is an open standard of the The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) and something O'Reilly is trying to help gain wider adoption.
Released 06/02/08.