UnfixFixedLayout!

ì  W3CWorkshoponDigitalPublicationLayoutandPresentation(fromMangatoMagazines)

ì  Tokyo,September18-19th,2018

ì  LucAudrainHeadofdigitalizationHachetteLivre

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Speakingfrom

ì  HachetteLivreì  FirstpublishinggroupinFrance,6thworldwide(2017)ì  Digitaldistributor,groupandthirdpartypublishers

ì  IDPF(2011)andnowW3Cmemberì  Deeplyengagedinfutureofdigitalpublishingì  Committedtobusinesscasesbasedonstandardsinfiles

formatsanddistributionprocesses

ì  foundingmemberofEDRLabì  Institutionalorganizationssupportì  Goodbalancebetweenstandards

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EPUBFixedLayout,anoverview

ì  SamplesofEPUBFXLpublicationsì  EPUBFXLdidallowforthesedigitalpublications

ì  2typesofEPUBFXLì  FXLText:searchabletextandimageì  FXLImage:imageonly

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EPUBFXLspecifications

•  MetadataforFixedLayoutpublicationsspecifiedMarch2012

•  Basedonsynthesisofformerproprietaryapproaches•  Inc.spreadsupport&control

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HowFXLusesWebtechnologies

ì  Eachcontentfilehasasingle2Dboxwithaviewportdefinitionì  One“page”ì  Allcontentfileshavethesameviewport

ì  ContentobjectarepositionedintheviewportwithCSSabsolutecoordinatesì  Eachpieceofcontent(text,image,etc)hasx,y

coordinatesì  Mayalsohaveaz-coordinatetoallowforlayers

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BuildingFXLfiles:theEPUBspine

ì  ContentfilescalledintheEPUBspinefollowdifferentstrategiesì  HTMLbody/section/imgì  HTML/svg/imageì  SVG/image

ì  Contentfilesarestitchedtogether2by2ì  Syntheticspreads

ì  properties="page-spread-right"and"page-spread-left"

ì  double“pages”

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DigitalSequentialArt

ì  Authorscreativityì  Digitalgraphicartexistsfromtheverybeginningof

computingì  Evenusingcharactersinterfaces:

https://www.asciimation.co.nz/

ì  Sequentialartisnowflourishingindigitalformì  Turbomediaì  Webtoonsì  Applications

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Aworldwidedynamicgrowingmarket

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Aworldwidedynamicgrowingmarket

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Issues/hopes

ì  EPUBFXLissuesì  Isn’tresponsive,isn’twebbyì  Isn’taccessibleforvisuallyimpairedpeopleì  Loosescontentintelligence(semantics)ì  Publisher/author’slayoutvsRSlayoutforuser

ì  Visualnarrativesinadigitalformissuesì  Nointernationalstandard

ì  Hopesì  Boostauthorscreativitywithinstandardformatsthatpublisherscan

supportanddistributeeverywhereì  Thisworkshopistheplacetofosterthatidealfuture

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