EPUBReader :: Add-ons for Firefox Плагин пока очень простенький. Но автор над ним работает - мгновенно откликнулся на замечания и пофиксил баг. Всё работает и есть куда развиваться. К не очень большому набору программных ридеров epub добавился ещё один. Учитывая распространенность Firefox, такое решение может оказаться одним из самых массовых для PC и ноутбуков.
InDesign to ePub, Kindle, and iPhone session at MAX - Scratch Disk
DeskTop Author - eBook Software, Brochure Software
PdftoePub features: * Quick conversion (2 to 5 minutes for an average trade title) * 100 % text accuracy * Auto paragraph joining algorithm that works automatically across multiple pages * Correctly splits final HTML into multiple segments, improving performance and lowering memory requirements for ePub readers and eBook devices * Handles images and image positioning based on the PDF positioning * Provides the PDF to ePub user the option to overwrite glyphs (character images) utilised within the PDF, with custom characters using a simple interface which requires no programming knowledge * Converted ePub will be automatically validated to ensure 100% compatibility with ePub check * Can convert from PDF to HTML allowing for web pages creation from the PDF text * Customise PDF area to extract from thus avoiding common problems with other conversion tools like headers and footers of pages being treated as body text * Provides the PDF to ePub user a pre-set option using PDF to ePub preset rules or to employ custom rules to the ePub conversion process * For Advanced users - PDF to ePub uses a powerful scripting language (.
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Судя по записи в блоге Лайзы Дейли, создателя профессионального онлайнового валидатора epub и онлайнового вьюера Bookworm (часть “империи” O’Reilly), о найме новых сотрудников — в недалеком будущем может появиться и онлайновый инструмент генерации epub.
Sigil, the ePub editor - MobileRead Forums
# Free and open source software under GPLv3 # Multi-platform: runs on Windows, Linux and Mac # Full Unicode support: everything you see in Sigil is in UTF-16 # Full EPUB spec support # WYSIWYG editing # Multiple Views: Book View, Code View and Split View # Metadata editor with full support for all possible metadata entries (more than 200) with full descriptions for each # Table Of Contents editor # Multi-level TOC support # Book View fully supports the display any XHTML document possible under the OPS spec # SVG support # Basic XPGT support # Advanced automatic conversion of all imported documents to Unicode # Currently imports TXT, HTML and EPUB files; more will be added with time # Currently exports EPUB and SGF (Sigil native format); more will be added with time # Embedded HTML Tidy; all imported documents are thoroughly cleaned; changing views cleans the document so no matter how much you screw up your code, it will fix it (usually ) # An actually usable user interface # Native C++ application # Bugs # And a lot more…
E-book review: iPhone: The Missing Manual | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
One thing that might keep many people from even considering an appbook regardless of price is the idea of having it tied to an app. Some might find only ever being able to read it on your iPhone, or the app taking up one of a (relatively) finite number of available icon spaces to be insurmountable handicaps, and pass up a book that they otherwise might have bought.
Introducing the Shortcovers ePUB Conversion Program — Shortcovers
Shortcovers is excited to announce a new service - the Shortcovers Publisher Conversion Program. Publishers can provide us with their digital source files - PDFs, Quark files, InDesign, .doc, .rtf - and for a shockingly low fee*, we’ll convert them into ePUB files, load them up into Shortcovers and then give back the ePUB file so the publisher can send it off to other vendors who also accept ePUB files.
ePub Resources and Guides - O’Reilly Labs
Welcome to Infogrid Pacific :: AZARDI : eScape -ODT2ePub
Программа для изготовления epub-книг на основе Open Office. Free. Для установки требует Windows XP или Vista, поэтому оценить, к сожалению, не могу.
Adobe Announces New eBook and PDF Support for Mobile Devices - MobileRead Forums
Straight from the horse’s mouth : Adobe announced today a Mobile SDK which will allow the development of mobile phones capable of reading pdfs and epub ebooks.
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Software Development Kit Enables Reflowable PDF and Content Protection for Smartphones and Reading Devices
BARCELONA, Spain — Feb. 16, 2009 — At the GSMA Mobile World Congress, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the availability of the new Adobe® Reader® Mobile SDK, a software development kit (SDK) designed to enable companies to deliver mobile phones and handheld devices that can easily download, manage, and display PDF content and eBooks.