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How to Create Adobe PDF eBooks for Windows and Macintosh.
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Contents
Introduction
Benefits of creating Adobe PDF eBooks . . . . . . . . . .1
About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2
Introduction
customers can buy, download, and read Adobe PDF eBooks from
Web-based eBooks stores using the free Acrobat eBook Reader
software.
Adobe PDF eBooks are compact files that can be downloaded
quickly from commercial Web sites and transferred between
reading devices with no loss of quality. They can be read on a
broad range of computer platforms. They preserve the exact look
and feel of your source documents, including page layout, fonts,
colors, and images. So that customers can find what they’re
looking for quickly, they provide navigation features such as
bookmarks and links.
Formatting text
When formatting text for an eBook, choose fonts that look good
on screen and are especially easy to read. Fonts with delicate
serifs or thin strokes that look good on the printed page can lose
their definition on screen, making them appear fuzzy and
difficult to read.
In general, you should use larger font sizes and higher leading
values than you would use for printed books. For maximum
readability at 100% magnification in Acrobat eBook Reader, you
should use a font size of at least 12 points and a leading of 2
points for body text.
If you have an issue with letter spacing, try to address it by setting
tracking values instead of kerning multiple pairs of individual
characters. Kerning many letter combinations to perfection often
adds little value and increases the file size.
After you’ve created your Adobe PDF eBook, it’s a good idea to
check the readability of its text under a variety of conditions,
including both a CRT and LCD display, as well as a variety of
both magnification and CoolType settings in Acrobat eBook
Reader.
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Chapter 1: Designing document templates for eBooks
Using color
Although printing books in color can be expensive, there’s no
additional cost to displaying color in Acrobat eBook Reader.
Therefore, you should consider using colorful images and adding
color to text elements such as headings, captions, and callouts.
Printing usually uses the CMYK color model, while computer
displays use the RGB color model. These models have different
gamuts, or ranges of colors that they can accommodate. In
addition, devices do not display the same colors in the same way.
These differences can result in differences between print and
screen colors, and between the same colors displayed on different
screens.
When you generate your Adobe PDF eBook, it’s recommended
that you set options in Acrobat Distiller or your authoring appli-
cation to convert all colors to the device-independent sRGB
model. These settings calibrate colors in a device-independent
way, so that they appear accurately on a variety of computer
displays.
Although Acrobat can be used to standardize colors across
devices, the appearance of colors in your eBook still depends on
each computer device’s color palette. If your eBook contains
colors that aren’t in the palette, the device approximates the
colors using colors in its palette. After creating an Adobe PDF
eBook, it’s a good idea to preview its colors on a variety of
platforms featuring palettes with 256 colors and true colors.
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Chapter 2: Converting
documents to Adobe PDF
4 Select the Fonts tab, and then make sure that the Base 14 Fonts
folder is chosen from the menu under Embedding. To embed the
base 14 fonts in the Adobe PDF document, select each of the
fonts in the list on the left. (Shift-click to select more than one
font at a time.) Then click the arrow button next to the Always
Embed list to add the selected fonts to that list.
6 To save the job options that you’ve created in a new file, click
Save As. (You can’t overwrite the predefined sets of options.)
Then enter a filename with the .joboptions extension (we used
eBookPro.joboptions), and click Save. By default, the file is saved
to the Distillr/Settings folder (Windows) or Distiller/Settings
folder (Mac® OS) inside the Acrobat folder. It’s important that
you save the file to this location, so that it’s recognized by Acrobat
Distiller.
The filename you chose appears in the Job Options menu in the
Acrobat Distiller dialog box and is chosen automatically.
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Adding metadata
In Acrobat eBook Reader, users can display information about a
selected eBook in the Book Information dialog box. The infor-
mation displayed includes the book’s title, author, publisher, and
categories. You provide this information (also called metadata)
when you enter your eBook into the Adobe Content Server
database. The Adobe Content Server conveys the metadata to
Acrobat eBook Reader when your eBook is downloaded. If you
don’t plan on uploading your eBook to the Adobe Content
Server, add metadata to your Adobe PDF document using
Acrobat.
8 Click OK.
Creating bookmarks
The Acrobat eBook Reader lets readers add bookmarks to an
eBook. Later, readers can display a list of bookmarks in the
Bookmarks dialog box and use them to jump to corresponding
locations in the eBook.
If your Adobe PDF document contains bookmarks created in
Acrobat, these bookmarks will appear in the Bookmarks dialog
box in Acrobat eBook Reader. When generating an Adobe PDF
document, some authoring applications let you specify for
bookmarks to be created automatically. If you were unable to do
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Chapter 3: Optimizing your Adobe PDF documents
2 Create a thumbnail image of the book’s cover in JPEG (100 pixels wide and
96 dpi) and attach it to the Adobe PDF document.
3 Create a thumbnail image of the book’s cover in GIF (100 pixels wide and 96
dpi) for upload it to Adobe Content Server.
4 If appropriate, use Acrobat to specify the Adobe PDF eBook open in Fit Width
or Two-Page View in Acrobat eBook Reader.
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5 Number pages in the Adobe PDF document so that its actual page numbers
correspond to page numbers that appear in the page navigator bar in
Acrobat eBook Reader. The front cover is numbered C, inside front cover is
numbered c, front matter is numbered beginning with i or iii (and contains an
even number of pages), and body pages are numbered beginning with 1.
After you create your Adobe PDF eBook, you are ready to upload to
Adobe Content Server and perform the following steps:
8 Upload your Adobe PDF eBook to Adobe Content Server and enter the book’s
title, author, and other information.
10 Set permissions for the Adobe PDF eBook and encrypt it using Adobe
Content Server software.
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Appendix A: Customizing
Acrobat Distiller job options
custom settings. For best results in your Adobe PDF eBook, it’s
recommended that you convert all colors to sRGB. For more
information on customizing Color job options, see Acrobat 5.0
Online Help.
6 Click Next to view the Pages and Page Marks options, and then
set options to select the pages to export and define the page infor-
mation service providers use to work with your exported pages.
7 Click Next to view the Security options. If you plan on
uploading your eBook to Adobe Content Server as this guide
discusses in “Optimizing your Adobe PDF documents” on
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page 15, you should deselect the Use Security Features option.
Instead, set security options using Adobe Content Server
software only.
8 Click Export.
The procedure in this section uses the former method. For infor-
mation on using the latter method, see the PageMaker documen-
tation.
9 In the Save PDF Files As dialog box, enter a filename for the
Adobe PDF document to be created, choose a file location, and
click Save.
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5 Click the Setup tab, and choose Acrobat Distiller from the
Printer Description menu. For Orientation, select Portrait
regardless of the dimensions of your document.
5 In the Print dialog box, click the Document tab, and deselect
Separations.
6 Click the Output tab, and select the appropriate color and
resolution settings for your document. Choose Composite
CMYK from the Print Colors menu. Choose 600 from the
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8 In the dialog box that appears, choose Save as File from the
menu directly below the Printer menu. Choose PostScript Job
from the Format menu. Select Level 3 Only from the PostScript
Level list. Select Binary for Data Format. Choose All from the
Font Inclusion menu.
3 Save the modified file using the prefix that you want Acrobat
Distiller to give to the Adobe PDF document. (For example, if
you name the file Handbook.ps, Acrobat Distiller creates an
Adobe PDF document named Handbook.pdf.)
4 Quit your authoring application.
5 If you haven’t already done so, deselect security options in
Acrobat Distiller and configure Acrobat Distiller job options as
recommended in “Setting Acrobat Distiller job options for
eBooks” on page 9.
6 In Acrobat Distiller 5.0, open the file you just created.
Acrobat Distiller combines the PostScript files into a single
Adobe PDF document.
7 Open and view the Adobe PDF document in Acrobat 5.0 to
make sure that all of its parts are present and in the correct order.