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Preparing Electronic Books
Edward J. WegmanCenter 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 Lessons Learned
Some Principles
CD based Commonly available file structure
Adobe .pdf, Quicktime .mov, .mpg, .jpg, .gif, .tif Interfaces
Web browser-based interfaceAcrobat reader interface
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
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/
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/
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
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
Demonstration
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.
Contact Information
Edward J. WegmanCenter for Computational StatisticsGeorge Mason University MS 4A7
Fairfax, VA 22030-4444
(703) [email protected]