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nuno.pinto · 02-08-2013, 09:50 AM

Hello everyone,

I work for a publisher of educational content, press and multimedia.

We were considering moving some of our press content to ePub, and with that end in mind, we've searched for software to convert/adapt our contents and external companies to do that for us.

We've experimented with Sigil and it seems to be a great piece of software for creating eBooks. We've also studied the ePub format, and made some experiments, to find its limitations, allways using the less advanced hardware/software. What I found was that we can't really rely on css and ANIMATED gifs due to most readers only meeting the minimum ePub requirements. There's no problem in that, we'll just have to work around those issues.

BUT, some of the companies we contacted promissed to publish the ePubs with some interactive elements (exercises, animations, etc). I know ePub 3 supports Javascript, but not all readers. How can a company promisse such feats? Is there something I'm not considering.

Thanks for any reply,
Regards,
NP

02-08-2013, 09:50 AM	#1
nuno.pinto Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2013 Device: none	ePub limitations, good practices and safe bets. Hello everyone, I work for a publisher of educational content, press and multimedia. We were considering moving some of our press content to ePub, and with that end in mind, we've searched for software to convert/adapt our contents and external companies to do that for us. We've experimented with Sigil and it seems to be a great piece of software for creating eBooks. We've also studied the ePub format, and made some experiments, to find its limitations, allways using the less advanced hardware/software. What I found was that we can't really rely on css and ANIMATED gifs due to most readers only meeting the minimum ePub requirements. There's no problem in that, we'll just have to work around those issues. BUT, some of the companies we contacted promissed to publish the ePubs with some interactive elements (exercises, animations, etc). I know ePub 3 supports Javascript, but not all readers. How can a company promisse such feats? Is there something I'm not considering. Thanks for any reply, Regards, NP Last edited by nuno.pinto; 02-08-2013 at 10:03 AM.