Preparing Electronic Books Edward J. Wegman Center for Computational Statistics George Mason University This talk is based on joint work with Amy Braverman of JPL.

Outline of Talk  Principles  Software  Structure  Demonstration  Lessons Learned

Some Principles  CD based  Commonly available file structure  Adobe.pdf, Quicktime.mov,.mpg,.jpg,.gif,.tif  Interfaces  Web browser-based interface  Acrobat reader interface

Why CD (or in future DVD)?  Physical Object (like book) and Archival  Web access fragile  Network failure  Hard drive failure  Webmaster moves on  Searchable  Multimedia  Color graphics and images  Animations and movies and sound  Code and data (text, Excel, Access)  Presentations (PowerPoint)  Print version an option

Software  Text Processing  MS Word   WinEdt 5.3 (for Tex and LaTex)   EXP   GhostView for Windows (for PostScript files)  

Software  CD Preparation  Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (5.0) and Acrobat Distiller   MS Photo Editor   Macromedia Dreamweaver MX   Button Studio 1.45   Autoplay Pro Menu Studio 3.0   Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.0 

Structure of CD  Basic Directory Types  Proceedings Folder  Contains folders for each contributor  Abstract or paper, presentation (ppt,pdf), other files  HTML Folder  Contains an html file for each contributor linking to their contribution  Web Folder  Contains website  Photo Folder  Contains Images

Structure of CD  Basic High Level Files  index.html  Front end for web access  master.pdf  Book image of proceedings  Acrobat allows search, linkage internally and externally, pagination  autorun.exe  Initiates disk on Windows platforms  Automatically generates a data directory  Miscellaneous image files for index.html and autorun.exe

Demonstration

Lessons Learned  No double column format.  Keep abstracts in text or MS Word.  Keep code in text files.  Allow postscript submissions as last resort.  Ditto pdf submissions with embedded fonts.  Check MS Word/PowerPoint submissions carefully for mismatched/uninstalled fonts.  Encourage submissions of presentations even if no paper.  Stay out of this business.  Rewarding but labor intensive.

Contact Information Edward J. Wegman Center for Computational Statistics George Mason University MS 4A7 Fairfax, VA (703)