Frame to iBook format?

[Scott Prentice]

Interesting article from Scriptorium on the subject ..

    http://www.scriptorium.com/blog/2010/01/epub-tech-pub.html

...scott


Scott Prentice wrote:
> Hi Tina...
>
> This format is EPUB (or Open eBook) ..
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_formats#EPUB
>
> It is basically a zipped set of XHTML files with a manifest that 
> describes how the files are to be ordered. You'd either need to author 
> in structured FM and export to XHTML, then create the manifest (either 
> manually or from some script that converts a book file) .. or use some 
> HTML conversion from unstructured FM. I'd imagine that this would be a 
> fairly simple export from Mif2Go or any HAT that exports HTML from FM 
> files. If someone's not working on it yet, I'll bet that there will be 
> a DITA-OT plugin to generate an EPUB deliverable .. soon.
>
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB
>
> Cheers,
>
> ...scott
>
> Scott Prentice
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>
>
> Tina Ricks wrote:
>> Does anyone have any pointers to exporting Frame documents to the new 
>> iBook
>> format for the as-yet-unavailable iPad? I know it's based on XML, but 
>> I'm
>> searching for specifics, if there are any.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Tina Ricks
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>>  
>>
>> Tina Ricks, Managing Editor, Trial Guides
>>
>> tina at trialguides.com
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>> www.trialguides.com
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