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Welcome to the Digital Publishing Technology Center. This site provides technical articles and tools to assist you with producing and distributing content compatible with key open standard file formats supported by Adobe desktop, mobile, and web services software. The Digital Publishing product family enables publishers to securely distribute, and consumers to conveniently read and manage, eBooks and other digital publications.
(November 17, 2009)
The announcement that Adobe and Barnes & Noble are collaborating to further standardize eBook technology is an advancement for open, interoperable eBooks.
This customer FAQ addresses common questions about the announcement.
(September 17, 2009)
The Adobe InDesign to Amazon Kindle white paper overviews best practices for eBook authoring in InDesign and offers a detailed review of the eBook conversion process for compatibility with the Kindle and the Amazon store.
(August 28, 2009)
The Launcher SDK is updated to include support for Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard). Refer to the Tools section below to download the updated Digital Editions Launcher.
(May 18, 2009)
EPUBGen is a Java library that demonstrates EPUB generation from a variety of document formats, and which may be a useful starting point or reference code for other EPUB generation needs. Refer to the Tools section below for more information.
(April 9, 2009)
Digital Editions 1.7.1 is an application update that discontinues support for Adobe Content Server 3. With this new version, Content Server 3 customers will no longer be able to fulfill eBooks to Adobe Digital Editions users. Digital Editions will automatically migrate existing Adobe Content Server 3-licensed eBooks to the new Adobe Content Server 4 license format; the process is transparent to the end user. Migration of eBooks will be supported until December 2009.
(March 12, 2009)
Adobe released the commercial version of the new Adobe® Reader® Mobile SDK, which was announced on February 16th at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Reader Mobile 9 SDK enables companies to deliver mobile phone applications, handheld devices and eInk eBook readers that can easily acquire, manage and display Adobe Content Server 4 encrypted and unencrypted PDF and EPUB content. For more information, please visit the Reader Mobile Developer Center.
(February 2, 2009)
Adobe has updated its popular Digital Editions software, a lightweight, rich Internet application for reading, acquiring, and organizing digital books and other publications. Digital Editions 1.7 greatly expands language support. In addition to the current support for English, German and French, Digital Editions 1.7 supports Japanese, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), Korean, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese. For publishers seeking to include special roman characters in their publications, we highly recommend embedding fonts in your digital publications. Version 1.7 also provides for a standalone installer option which can be used to install Digital Editions in networked environments including corporate, educational and other locations that require administrative installations of the software. The expanded language and installer support in Digital Editions 1.7 enables Adobe Content Server 4 customers to protect and fulfill both PDF and EPUB files to users who want to purchase or borrow content in the above languages and also to users who use Digital Editions in networked environments.
Use these publishing tools to facilitate the production and validatation of well-formed, device-ready EPUB content.
Increasingly, eBook authors using InDesign want to export eBooks for reading on devices like the Amazon Kindle and selling in the Amazon store. Because Amazon uses a proprietary eBook format, InDesign users must convert their exported eBook files into an Amazon-compatible format before submission. Find out how in the Adobe InDesign to Amazon Kindle white paper.
If you want to validate your EPUB files, run this Java-based tool. EpubCheck can detect many types of errors in EPUB, and checks OCF container structure, OPF and OPS mark-up, and internal reference consistency.
Use the EpubPreflight tool for checking EPUB files for:
EPUBGen is a Java library that demonstrates EPUB generation from a variety of document formats, and which may be a useful starting point or reference code for other EPUB generation needs. There are sample Java applications are provided that illustrate the conversion of respective file types (rt2epub, word2epub, fb2epub).
Use the stand-alone installer to install Digital Editions in networked environments including corporate, educational and other locations that require administrative installations of the software.
Read these instructions for installing Adobe Digital Editions software on Microsoft® Windows computers, and PowerPC and Intel®-based Macintosh computers.
Use the Launcher SDK to detect if Digital Editions is installed, launch Digital Editions if already installed, and provision Digital Editions with a DRM fulfillment or with a content URL for direct download of unprotected PDF or EPUB content.
Read these instructions for setting up the Installer and Launcher SDK.
If you would like to provide a link from your website to access the Adobe Digital Editions download, you may use the Get Digital Editions web logo. Please visit the Permissions and Trademark Guidelines site for more information.
Review these style and conformance documents about best practices and tips for publishing digital content.
Get EPUB specifications from the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), a trade and standards association for the digital publishing industry.
Read specifications for OCF, a zip-based standard used to encapsulate all of the pieces of a digital publication into a single file.
Read specifications for OPS, the digital publication’s markup or content (words on the page).
Read specifications for OPF, the navigation, packaging, metadata, and table of contents (how the pages relate to one another).
Learn more about the features and benefits of the EPUB industry standard file format.
Follow these guidelines for creating well-formed and well-formatted EPUB documents. To read this EPUB document, you will need to use Digital Editions, which you can install from the Digital Editions product site.
Learn more about how Adobe supports protecting embedded fonts in EPUB files.
Learn about best practices and tips for authoring EPUB documents in InDesign CS3.
Get the latest information on the development of XSLT style sheets to convert DocBook XML books and articles to EPUBs.
Obtain information about supporting bidirectional text and MathML for EPUBs.
Learn about the digital publishing industry through industry articles, blogs and events.
See news, information and tips about Adobe Digital Editions.
Submit your feedback about the Adobe Developer Connection.
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