1. 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.

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

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

4. 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

5. Software  Text Processing  MS Word  http://www.microsoft.com/ http://www.microsoft.com/  WinEdt 5.3 (for Tex and LaTex)  http://www.winedt.com/ http://www.winedt.com  EXP 5.0.2  http://www.expswp.com/ http://www.expswp.com/  GhostView for Windows (for PostScript files)  http://www.ghostscript.com/ http://www.ghostscript.com/  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/

6. Software  CD Preparation  Adobe Acrobat 4.0 (5.0) and Acrobat Distiller  http://www.adobe.com/ http://www.adobe.com/  MS Photo Editor  http://www.microsoft.com/ http://www.microsoft.com  Macromedia Dreamweaver MX  http://www.macromedia.com/ http://www.macromedia.com/  Button Studio 1.45  http://www.interkodex.com/ http://www.interkodex.com  Autoplay Pro Menu Studio 3.0  http://www.indigorose.com/ http://www.indigorose.com  Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.0  http://www.roxio.com/ http://www.roxio.com/

7. 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

8. 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

9. Demonstration

10. 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.

11. Contact Information Edward J. Wegman Center for Computational Statistics George Mason University MS 4A7 Fairfax, VA 22030-4444 (703) 993-1691 ewegman@gmu.edu