Sunday, January 10, 2010

FAQ: iPhone and similar devices

Q: Is there a way to use BatchXSLT for InDesign's export to publish Newspapers to iPhone users?

A: Sure. Today's mobile devices have a built in standard web browser and can display such eBooks. However, do not expect readers to read your publication as a flip page eBook on such a small screen (connection speed usually is too low anyway)!
Instead create a dedicated web site for mobile devices. It must be trimmed to fit on small screens. It is not a big deal to extract articles from the exported XML and to build an easy to navigate index for such mobi devices.

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