Pearson’s Standard eText

Production Process

Four Components

•Content Manager FTP server

•Content Manager application

•Authoring application

•Viewer

Multiple Environments

•DEV (development)

•CERT (QA testing)

•PPE (Pre-Production Environment) - also used for eText test ingestions

•PROD (Production)

Content Manager

•Workflow Status tab, including History

•Standard eBook Workflow tab

•Simple eBook Workflow tab

•Offline Packaging tab

•Audio Text Synch Up tab

•Accessibility

Two Workflows

•Standard eBook Workflow• XML extracted, processed via FileQA and Desktop

Conversion Toolkit

• High-resolution printer PDFs

• Optional Basket, Hotspot or Audio spreadsheets

•Simple eBook Workflow• Required TOC and optional Basket, Glossary, Hotspot or

Audio spreadsheets

• High-resolution printer PDFs

Requirements

•Hi-Res Printer PDFs

•Table of Contents (XML or spreadsheet)

•Cover and other artwork

•Additional enhancements (links, glossary)

•FTP client

•Mac/Windows computer w/ browser

Resources

•Media server: http://media.pearsoncmg.com/cmg/intranet/ebookplus/spreadsheet.html

•Pearson Knowledge Base:http://kb.pearsoned.com

Hi-Res PDFs

• PDF 1.4, CMYK, cropped or uncropped

• If uncropped, must include valid trim box

• If cropped, do not crop by adjusting the media box

• From InDesign, export as PDF

• Optimizing highly recommended

Hi-Res PDFs (cont.)

•What you see is more or less what you get

•No spot colors, no replacement colors

•No hidden elements

•No larger than 30 MB for a single page PDF

•No larger than 300 MB for a multi-page PDF, with no single page larger than 30 MB

Table of Contents

•Standard eBook workflow uses extracted and transformed XML

•Simple eBook workflow uses formatted MS Excel spreadsheet template

Cover, Artwork & Icons

•Cover image as PNG and PDF at 150 dpi• Typically 1-1.6 MB file size

• ~1008 pixels wide

•Thumbnail in PNG format at 150 dpi• 90 pixels wide, and proportionately high

•Navigationbar in PNG format at 150 dpi• 120 pixels wide by 80 pixels high

• Should be provided by business unit

Additional Enhancements

•Other XML files from XID/ETMv2• Cross-reference, glossary links in regioninfo.xml

• Glossary

•Formatted MS Excel spreadsheets• Cross-reference, glossary and links to external resources

Basic Ingestion into

Content Manager •Upload files to the Content

Manager FTP server

•Ingest PDFs, XML into the Content Manager

•Ingest additional spreadsheets, as applicable

•Upload/publish to Authoring server

Content Manager FTP

•FTP client that supports SFTP protocol

•Individual account credentials required

•Contact Ann Sullivan or Tyler Suydam for FTP access accounts

•Create folders in appropriate location

•Must reset folder permissions

Prior to Processing XML

•Log into Content Manager application

•Click on Standard eBook workflow tab

•Enter ISBN into Identifier field

•Click Acquire Metadata button

•If metadata.xml successfully generated, use Global Book ID included in file

If Acquire Metadata fails...

•Log into Content Manager application

•Click on Standard eBook workflow tab

•Enter ISBN into Identifier field

•Select appropriate BU/SBU/Directory

•Click Validate

•Content Manager will fail, but will generate Global Book ID and folders

•Use generated Global Book ID in “placeholder” metadata.xml file

Custom TOC spreadsheet

•Not required if XML transformation through Compositor’s Toolbox is successful

•Creates eText table of contents

•Lists all of the PDFs to be included in eText

•Assigns hierarchy of folders and sub-folders

•Guidelines for Preparing Table of Contents Spreadsheet contains information about how to build the spreadsheet

Custom Basket spreadsheet

•Not required if Table of Contents and Glossary are the only baskets

•Required for any additional baskets, such as instructor or other resources

•BU may provide or may ask vendor to produce

Custom Hotspot spreadsheet

•Not needed for cross-reference or glossary links if regioninfo.xml successfully processed

•Links to externally-hosted rich media assets

•Use of relative or absolute URLs will depend on whether any “offline” package(s) will include rich media assets

Custom Hotspot spreadsheet (cont.)

•Role

•X/Y location, width/height entries

•Icons

•Alternate media link

Initial Ingestion•Log into Content Manager application

•Click on Standard eBook workflow tab

•Enter enclosing folder into Identifier field

•Select appropriate BU/SBU/Directory

•Select appropriate language

•Select XML, PDF processing

•Click Create

Initial Ingestion (cont.)

•Automated messages

•Workflow status tab

•Low-res PDF processing

•Manage bookinfo

•Manage manifest

•Validate

•Page preview

•Upload/publish to Authoring server

Initial Ingestion (cont.)

•Perform PDF scaling

•Replace selected pages

•Process all chapters

•Process annotated PDF

Authoring

•Log into PROD1 Authoring:http://auth.ebookplus.pearsoncmg.com/authoring.do

•Search for eText by title, author, Book ID or Global Book ID

•Click on title to enter eText

Authoring Menu•Review and Enter Book Metadata

• Make Verso / Recto selection, if necessary

•Specify eText Language and Interface

• Selections should agree, wherever possible

• If UI is Elementary, Toolbar Placement should be set to bottom

• Audio Text Synch enabled, if appropriate

• Other selections

Authoring Menu (cont.)

•Specify eText Interface Colors

•Specify SWF and Asset File Paths

•Upload Custom Icons

•Export

•Export for Distribution

Authoring Menu (cont.)

•Export

• Captures any edits made in the Authoring server, especially hotspots

• Same as creating a backup in the Content Manager

• When initiated from Content Manager, recorded in History

•Export for Distribution

• Create “offline” packages, such as CD/DVD, PSN, OCAS

• Configure UI selections

Authoring Menu (cont.)

•Review eText Pages, Region Hotspots and Zoom Areas

• Review pages, pagination, completeness, table of contents, baskets

• Resize and reposition hotspots ingested from spreadsheet and maybe adjust those from transformed XML

• Adjust or author zoom boxes

Editing Hot Spots•On initial ingestion from a

spreadsheet, hotspots are uniform size and neatly aligned to left edge of page.

•Double-click a hotspot to move or resize

•Adjust x/y or w/h in editing panel

•Guidance for sizing and positioning should be available in the Note field of the link editing panel

Authoring Hot Spots•Additional hotspots can be created

using tool

•Click-and-drag with tool to create a new hotspot, and to move or resize

•Creating new hotspot opens link panel

•Make appropriate selections from Link Type, Type and Role values

•Link Type selection controls available Type selections

•Enter appropriate Link Value

Authoring Hot Spots•Adjust hotspot x/y or w/h in editing

panel

•Add Media w/h and x/y or Link x/y as needed

•Entered Name becomes mouseover

•iPad check box

•Alternate media link for iPad/Android

•Ready-to-Publish check box

Authoring Glossary Links

•To create a glossary link, use link tool to create link and then click and drag the glossary term from the Glossary basket to the link editing panel

•Appropriate Glossary Entry ID value is automatically entered

Placing / Editing Icons

•Installing icons

•On initial ingestion from a spreadsheet, icons are neatly aligned to right edge

•Double-click an icon to move

•Icons cannot be resized

•Smaller icon artwork is possible, but associated regions will need to be edited

•Selecting, placing, authoring additional icons

Authoring Zoom Areas•Can be ingested from marked PDFs

•Created in the Authoring environment using Zoom Area Tool

•Select tool and then click and drag

•Adjust x/y and w/h in editing panel

•Assign/re-assign sequence in editing panel

•BU provides guidance if not ingested

•Double-click to edit created zoom area

Re-positioning Audio Text Synch

Icons•Clicking Audio Text Synch Icon tool

makes audio text regions appear and hotspots or icons disappear

•Double-click an icon and then click and drag to reposition icon or enter x/y values in editing panel

•Icon can be changed to a hotspot in editing panel by selecting Region for Flow Type

Preview Links

•When eText is ready for BU review, generate Authoring Preview links

•Instructor/Student, iPad Instructor/Student

•iPad previews for confirming functionality and icons

eText Best Practices

•Export from the Authoring server before making changes

•Create self-derivative

•Purge previous versions in Content Manager

•Preserve XML and logs