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Old 08-16-2009, 08:48 PM   #1
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ePub by hand question

I hope eventually to be able to produce ePub books by hand from XHTML/CSS rather than use a conversion program. At the moment I'm working through a tutorial by that name sent to me by GRiker for which I'm most grateful.

One thing I don't see in the tutorial however is how to set up a cover graphic for the ebook. I know there is one, since the sample book (The Velveteen Rabbit) has one when opened in ADE.

So where should I look in the sample files to find out how it was done?

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Old 08-16-2009, 09:11 PM   #2
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Look in the OPF file.
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Old 08-17-2009, 07:52 AM   #3
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Old 08-17-2009, 08:23 AM   #4
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Since I create my ePUBs by hand, I'll take the liberty of advising you to take a look at them.
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Old 08-17-2009, 09:35 AM   #5
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Since I create my ePUBs by hand, I'll take the liberty of advising you to take a look at them.
I'll second that. I've looked through several of the ePubs from the library here, and Jellby's seem to be among the cleanest/most logically laid out ones.
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I'll second that. I've looked through several of the ePubs from the library here, and Jellby's seem to be among the cleanest/most logically laid out ones.
thirded. jellby is the epub king.
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Old 08-18-2009, 01:53 AM   #7
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Thanks to both of you for the suggestion. I have been vaguely thinking about looking at what other people do (just like I did with websites) but now I'll get into it properly.

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