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Types of digital publications  12 ATAR

Background

  • Digital publication usually branded by a company eg PDF by Adobe
  • Software app used to deliver content
  • Look and styled to belong to a brand.
  • epub used by many publishing programs for mobile devices

Details

ePub

  • ePub is a group of files zipped together into a publication
  • the extension name is .epub
  • short for electronic publication
  • is an open ebook standard set by the international digital publishing forum
  • it has embedded metadata
  • it can optimise text for a particular display type 
  • can be opened by iPhones, android, iPads, 
  • can have digital rights management inbuilt into the file, good for copyright

pdf

  • is called .pdf
  • stands for portable document format
  • much software can save as pdf. For example MS word, Pages, Excel, inDesign, 
  • it seems to be a standard that everybody can open
  • it used to be safe as it was difficult to modify. ie your document couldn't be changed.
  • it is very useful to attach pdfs in an email as then most people can open them. Not everybody uses MS word, or Pages

indd

  • is an Adobe inDesign document commonly used for digital publications
  • called desktop publishing software
  • commonly used to make brochures, school yearbooks, posters
  • it brings together images and text to make digital solutions for web or print
  • it exports easily to normal pdf, interactive pdf, ePub, flash, HTML, shockwave

FOR YOU TO DO

  1. Get together with a friend and make a list of software that can export or save as PDFs. See if you can get to 10.
  2. Which devices can open ePubs?
  3. What does PDF stand for?
  4. What is an advantage of sending a PDF by email?
  5. Name two industry standard desktop publishing software. Hint one is mentioned on this webpage. You will need to research its main competitor.
  6. Find out what software your school uses to make its annual yearbook.

 

 

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