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Preparing Electronic Books Edward J. Wegman Center for - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Preparing Electronic Books Edward J. Wegman Center for - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Preparing Electronic Books Edward J. Wegman Center for Computational Statistics George Mason University This talk is based on joint work with Amy Braverman of JPL. Outline of Talk Principles Software Structure Demonstration
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Some Principles
CD based Commonly available file structure
Adobe .pdf, Quicktime .mov, .mpg, .jpg, .gif, .tif
Interfaces
Web browser-based interface Acrobat reader interface
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Why CD (or in future DVD)?
Physical Object (like book) and Archival
Web access fragile
Network failure Hard drive failure Webmaster moves on
Searchable Multimedia
Color graphics and images Animations and movies and sound Code and data (text, Excel, Access) Presentations (PowerPoint) Print version an option
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Software
Text Processing
MS Word
http://www.microsoft.com/
WinEdt 5.3 (for Tex and LaTex)
http://www.winedt.com/
EXP 5.0.2
http://www.expswp.com/
GhostView for Windows (for PostScript files)
http://www.ghostscript.com/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
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Software
CD Preparation
Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (5.0) and Acrobat Distiller
http://www.adobe.com/
MS Photo Editor
http://www.microsoft.com/
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX
http://www.macromedia.com/
Button Studio 1.45
http://www.interkodex.com/
Autoplay Pro Menu Studio 3.0
http://www.indigorose.com/
Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.0
http://www.roxio.com/
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Structure of CD
Basic Directory Types
Proceedings Folder
Contains folders for each contributor
Abstract or paper, presentation (ppt,pdf), other files
HTML Folder
Contains an html file for each contributor linking to their contribution
Web Folder
Contains website
Photo Folder
Contains Images
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Structure of CD
Basic High Level Files
index.html
Front end for web access
master.pdf
Book image of proceedings
Acrobat allows search, linkage internally and externally, pagination
autorun.exe
Initiates disk on Windows platforms Automatically generates a data directory
Miscellaneous image files for index.html and autorun.exe
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Demonstration
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Lessons Learned
No double column format. Keep abstracts in text or MS Word. Keep code in text files. Allow postscript submissions as last resort. Ditto pdf submissions with embedded fonts. Check MS Word/PowerPoint submissions carefully for
mismatched/uninstalled fonts.
Encourage submissions of presentations even if no paper. Stay out of this business.
Rewarding but labor intensive.
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