Saturday, January 09, 2010

FAQ: eBook Reader

Q: Can the eBook exported by BatchXSLT for InDesign also be used for the Sony eBook Reader?

A: NO - not directly. eBook readers (like Sony or Adobe's epup) need their own special output format. The screen of eBook readers is too small to let the user navigate through a flip page eBook. By the way - eBook readers text browsersers are 'kind of limited' and can not provide the functionality to navigate flip page eBooks using Javascript. They are designed to display text and some images with a page- or chapter navigation.
However, if you can not use Adobe's built in epup export you can write an own transform to build the output data format for your eBook reader.

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