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pshoebri · 10-13-2020, 05:00 PM

Hello all,

I'm creating an ebook that has a few technical challenges, hoping you folks can offer some advice.

1. The book is also going to be a print book. It has 100 color illustrations.

2. The illustrations are also triggers that will activate an augmented reality animation when you hold up an AR app on your phone to them, revealing 15 second loops with audio, overlaid on top of the printed book reference image.

We've dealt with the design and technology of these two questions. I'm here to ask questions since the publishers would like us to make an ebook of this book.

The book is designed in indesign right now. Is multi-column, has drop caps, and images are placed throughout the book.

Options include:

Publish the ebook so that all of the animations are built right into the text, and could be activated, played, as well as the book be read. Possibly pages/iBooks could do this? We have to rebuild this completely in Pages to make this happen....?

Output an interactive PDF from indesign? An ePub 3?

Use calibre to translate this somehow?

Hopefully someone here has some experience and can offer some guidance. Thanks in advance!

10-13-2020, 05:00 PM	#1
pshoebri Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2017 Device: ipad / osx / ios	Complicated ebook, multimedia > ebook of some sort Hello all, I'm creating an ebook that has a few technical challenges, hoping you folks can offer some advice. 1. The book is also going to be a print book. It has 100 color illustrations. 2. The illustrations are also triggers that will activate an augmented reality animation when you hold up an AR app on your phone to them, revealing 15 second loops with audio, overlaid on top of the printed book reference image. We've dealt with the design and technology of these two questions. I'm here to ask questions since the publishers would like us to make an ebook of this book. The book is designed in indesign right now. Is multi-column, has drop caps, and images are placed throughout the book. Options include: Publish the ebook so that all of the animations are built right into the text, and could be activated, played, as well as the book be read. Possibly pages/iBooks could do this? We have to rebuild this completely in Pages to make this happen....? Output an interactive PDF from indesign? An ePub 3? Use calibre to translate this somehow? Hopefully someone here has some experience and can offer some guidance. Thanks in advance!