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

257 Pages·2013·15.328 MB·English

by  Jarret Buse

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EPUB from the
Ground Up
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About the Author
Jarret W. Buse (Huntingburg, Indiana) is a Microsoft
Certified Trainer and a Microsoft Certified Systems
Engineer. Jarret has been the coauthor of or a contributor
to several books on certification topics. He has years of
experience working with e-books, including EPUB. He
can be contacted at [email protected].
About the Technical Reviewer
Devyn Collier Johnson graduated high school at age 16 and
has earned four computer certifications: NCLA, Linux+,
LPIC-1, and DCTS. He has also created his own chatbot and
markup language called Xaiml. Devyn hosts his chatbot, Neo,
and the new Xaiml language at https://launchpad.net/neobot.
Devyn can be contacted at [email protected].
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EPUB from the
Ground Up
A Hands-on Guide to
EPUB 2 and EPUB 3
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I dedicate this book to my beautiful wife, Cassandra. With her, my life is full and
would be empty without. God has put us together and kept us together while our
love has only grown. Nearly 20 years ago we met, and it seemed that we were the
only two souls in the world because it felt as if I’d known you forever. The world
did not exist, and we knew we would be together always.

Along with my wife I also dedicate this book to our children, all fourteen:
the seven we have and the seven lost before birth. To Devyn, Logan, Caleb, Eilly,
Alyse, Morgan, and Grant: you were all loved, even before you were born, and
with love you endure to face this world. Never give in to the world, for you are
always loved. All of you are in my heart, never to leave it.
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Contents at a Glance
1 EPUB Defined ............................................................. 1
2 HTML ..................................................................... 27
3 CSS ........................................................................ 69
4 Fonts, Images, and Colors ................................................. 113
5 Navigation Center eXtended (NCX)
and Open Packaging Format (OPF) .................................... 129
6 Converting EPUB Files .................................................... 141
7 EPUB Security ............................................................ 155
8 EPUB 3 .................................................................... 169
9 JavaScript ................................................................. 195
Index ...................................................................... 227
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Contents
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ........................................................... xiii
INTRODUCTION .................................................................. xv
1 EPUB Defined ............................................................. 1
EPUB Version 2 (EPUB 2) .......................................................... 2
Open Container Format ....................................................... 3
Key Word Usage .............................................................. 4
Open Packaging Format (OPF) ................................................ 11
Open Publication Structure (OPS) ............................................. 11
What About the Kindle? ....................................................... 11
What Is SVG? ................................................................ 12
What Is Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language (NVDL)? ........ 14
What Is DAISY or DTBook? .................................................. 14
What Is an EPUB? .................................................................. 17
Preparing to View the Contents of an EPUB File ............................... 17
Viewing the Contents of an EPUB File ........................................ 20
XML Basics .................................................................. 21
2 HTML ..................................................................... 27
XHTML ............................................................................ 28
What Is XHTML? ............................................................. 28
What’s the Difference Between HTML and XHTML? ......................... 29
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