Adobe has made extensive contributions to the world of EPUB software, but needs to go a few steps further with their Digital Editions product.
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So Adobe has finally released the latest update for InDesign CS4 (6.0.2). Basically, before this update was released, the ePub export functionality was broken. Here is the latest blog post from Adobe about the update: http://blogs.adobe.com/digitaleditions/2009/05/indesign_602_and_epub_export.html. With this update, I...
We've enabled internationalization support for the user interface and help text in Bookworm and are looking for help in translating it into various languages. Bookworm runs on the Django framework, and Django supports these languages. They're all fair game. To...
After being asked about EPUB resources, I wrote up a categorized list of the places I'd go to find out more about the format, how to create it, and how to consume it.
DocBook-XSL 1.74.1 Released with Improved ePub Output
By Keith FahlgrenFebruary 17, 2009 | Comments: 0
Generate ePub files from your DocBook XML today using the first stable release with ePub support, DocBook-XSL
1.74.1.
Nice to see some old-school text-based browser action, and as Bookworm was written exclusively using emacs, it seems appropriate: Screenshot via kamen.nadev. This isn't just geek cred, though. For the same reasons that the site is usable in a text...
Using the Twitter Search API to Refine TOC Conference Tweet Data
By Andrew SavikasFebruary 15, 2009 | Comments: 1
I didn't see it coming from this audience, but the Twitter chatter was thunderous during the TOC Conference this year. As things wound up, a lot of attendees were looking for a single list of all the conference tweets. Not...
O'Reilly Product Metadata Interface (OPMI) Usage At Tweet Length
By Keith FahlgrenFebruary 12, 2009 | Comments: 1
Start using our O'Reilly Product Metadata Interface (OPMI) with a couple of lines of Ruby.
This is the kind of web usage report that makes site managers ecstatic and software engineers cringe, and as I'm playing both roles in this case I'd describe it as a feeling of giddy terror. Bookworm has been online...
