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AquafadasFixed Layout Reading Experience for Comics, Children Books, Table Books.
Books MagazinesEnterpriseComics
Agenda
1. Who we are ? What we do...2. The AVE Formati)The motivations ?ii)Improving readability of FL documents : Comics, Table Books, ...1. Advanced FL Documents (including epub3)i)Use cases - Demosii)Challenges - Our dreams for epub3
The crazy stuff !
- French Startup (2006)- Tool makers :
- Digital Comic Book Store (> 2500 books)- Digital Publishing Solution : from authoring (ID and Quark) to cloud-based-distribution and app building - Designed a very rich, fixed layout format : AVE- epub3 friendly : FL and reflow export from InDesign CS5+
Aquafadas ... in a nutshell
Video/Animationsoftware
html5authoring
digital comicsauthoring +
platformdigital publishing
MotionComposer
Aquafadas today, 6/7/2012
- member of IDPF for a few weeks only, but...
Delighted to be able to share our experience,maybe even inspire you
and help working on the epub3standard...and beyond
AVE Format
• Back in 2007, no standard Fixed Layout, Image-friendly format• Experiment with immersive reading UI• Experiment with resolution/screen independant solutions• Control the reader UI• Propose Reading Cinematics• Support enrichment layers, including enrichments by the community
AVE Format - the origins
• Layers• root layer = original doc• each layer describes a processing on the root layer, or additional content to composite• rendering by a dedicated reader
QuickTime™ and aH.264 decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
AVE Format
Original content (en)
iPad cinematics by Aquafadas
iPhone cinematics by Aquafadas
Localization (jp)
Interactivity /multimedia enrichments
<cinematics> <cinematic id=”iPad”...>
<page pageId=”0”>...</page>
</cinematic></cinematics>
<localizations><localization id=”jp”>
<page pageId=”0”>...</page>
</localization>
</localizations>...
AVE Format - the vision
Collaborative authoringCommunity buildingNew artistic expressionNo copyright/rights infringementNew economy
Animated reading (small screens)•Scenes : to extract images•Shots : to animate paths•transitions : to animate paths
AVE Comics - Page reading (1)
• Aquafadas approach : Scenes, shots and ideal_text_zoom•Scenes : represent an area of the page that needs to be displayed at least once as a single entity. Can be polylines•Shots : represent linked zones (progression) of the page that need to be displayed in sequence when the scene is not entirely visible or when zoom factor < ideal_text_zoom
AVE Comics - Page reading (2)
• Dynamic reading path : on-the-fly adjustment when user zooms•Scenes : the viewer will attempt to show as many scenes as possible that fit in the viewport given the zoom factor•Shots : the viewer will zoom into a scene to view shots when the current viewport means that the current zoom < ideal_text_zoom
Adjust toUser / Tired /
Viewing impaired
MinimizesMoves
Make sure itis readable /Guide the
unexperiencedreader
Improving readibility for Table Books
• PDF background• Enrichments in overlays• Guided reading• Reflow• User chooses the zoom factor > accessibility
Redon - AppStore - (c) RMN - Grand Palais
All content in the following demos has
been created by designers and does not involve any
hand-written code
Use Case 1 : Controlling the reader
ImageImage
AnimationAnimation
ButtonButton
ButtonButton
ButtonButton
ButtonButton
ButtonButton
ButtonButton
• Control the UI• Control the Navigation
• Make document hierachical
2
Use Case 2 : Non linear books
1 2 2.1
2.2
2.3
3• Has become a fairly ‘standard’ in the magazine world
StoryV1
StoryV2
Credits
•Remove the navigation between pages•Add buttons from the 1st page to launch different versions of the book
Fixed Layout Epubs : challenges
• handling animations in spreads•handling sound effects in spreads
AnimationAnimation
SoundSound
Conclusion•Adaptative Guided Reading is a great way to improve readability of books, including comics, as well as a way to improve acessibility of FL books•eBooks can be more than books...without requiring any coding. Designers/Publishers/Individuals can great content.
•Aquafadas wants to contribute extending the possibilities of FL epub3 when it comes to comics, table books, children books•Aquafadas continuously improving epub3 support in its tools. • Aquafadas will soon introduce Aquafadas Digital Factory, an easy to use workflow portal for epub3, digital comics creation from images, PDFs,...
Books ComicsMagazines
Aquafadas
Contact - Matthieu Kopp - [email protected]
www.aquafadas.com
www.avepublishing.com