CITATION

Buse, Jarret. EPUB From the Ground Up: A Hands-On Guide to EPUB 2 and EPUB 3. US: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media, 2013.

EPUB From the Ground Up: A Hands-On Guide to EPUB 2 and EPUB 3

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Published:  September 2013

eISBN: 9780071830539 0071830537 | ISBN: 9780071830522
  • Cover
  • About the Author
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents at a Glance
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Why This Book?
  • What to Do Next?
  • Who Should Read This Book
  • What This Book Covers
  • Chapter 1: EPUB Defined
  • EPUB Version 2 (EPUB 2)
  • Open Container Format
  • Key Word Usage
  • Open Packaging Format (OPF)
  • Open Publication Structure (OPS)
  • What About the Kindle?
  • What Is SVG?
  • What Is Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language (NVDL)?
  • What Is DAISY or DTBook?
  • What Is an EPUB?
  • Preparing to View the Contents of an EPUB File
  • Viewing the Contents of an EPUB File
  • XML Basics
  • Chapter 2: HTML
  • XHTML
  • What Is XHTML?
  • What’s the Difference Between HTML and XHTML?
  • OPS XHTML Types
  • Structure
  • Text
  • Hypertext
  • List
  • Object
  • Presentation
  • Edit
  • Bidirectional Text
  • Table
  • Image
  • Client-Side Image Map
  • Meta Information
  • Style Sheet
  • Link
  • Base
  • Practice
  • Chapter 3: CSS
  • What Are Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)?
  • Selectors
  • Declarations
  • What Are the Four Ways to Specify Size?
  • How Do I Test font-size-adjust?
  • What Are the Various Length Measurements?
  • What Is Inheritance?
  • What Is the Difference Between Inline and Block?
  • Special Selectors
  • Practice
  • Chapter 4: Fonts, Images, and Colors
  • Fonts
  • Embedding Fonts
  • How Does the Directory Structure Work?
  • What If My TTF File Doesn’t Work?
  • Shouldn’t All EPUB Systems Support Embedded Fonts?
  • Images
  • Embedding Images
  • How Do I Get Dimensions of an SVG Image?
  • What About CSS Order of Precedence?
  • EPUB Note
  • Colors
  • Displaying Colors
  • Grayscale
  • Chapter 5: Navigation Center eXtended (NCX) and Open Packaging Format (OPF)
  • NCX Introduction
  • Header
  • <ncx>
  • <head>
  • <doctitle>
  • <navMap>
  • How Do I Know If the NCX Is Valid?
  • OPF Introduction
  • Header
  • <package>
  • <metadata>
  • <manifest>
  • <spine>
  • <guide>
  • Chapter 6: Converting EPUB Files
  • Getting Ready to Convert
  • Converting to EPUB
  • Converting from EPUB
  • Practice, Practice, Practice
  • Chapter 7: EPUB Security
  • Introduction to EPUB Security
  • Public Key Infrastructure and RSA
  • Online Libraries
  • Advanced Encryption Standard
  • EPUB Security Files
  • rights.xml
  • encryption.xml
  • Font Mangling
  • Signing an EPUB
  • Secure Hash Algorithm
  • signatures.xml
  • Validation
  • Chapter 8: EPUB 3
  • Differences Between EPUB 2 and EPUB 3
  • Viewing EPUB 3 Files
  • New Navigation File
  • Cover Image
  • MathML
  • Fixed Layouts
  • Embedding Audio and Video
  • Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
  • Creating Narrative Files Without a Microphone
  • Text to Speech
  • Flash Animation
  • Chapter 9: JavaScript
  • Getting Ready
  • Setting Up a Spot for JavaScript
  • JavaScript Programming
  • Variables
  • What Is document.write?
  • Math Operators
  • Assignment Operators
  • Arrays
  • Multidimensional Arrays
  • Associative Arrays
  • Functions
  • What About Forms?
  • What Is the Alert?
  • Objects
  • Conditions
  • Loops
  • Events
  • Example Functions
  • Index