Latest Releases
An update has been released for the Digital Hub that fixes an accessibility issue reported by recent versions of the Ace by DAISY App (Ace App).
A small change in the Ace App last week resulted in a new “epub-pagesource” warning for books produced in the Digital Hub. This Hub update changes how print ISBNs are represented in the ePub’s OPF document in order to match the latest accessibility recommendations and to avoid the Ace App warning.
A new update has been released for the Digital Hub. The update includes several feature updates to improve the accessibility of ebooks produced within the Well-Formed Document Workflow.
The conversion from sam to ScML will attempt to automatically link fighn to <longdescription> elements. The linking works by matching the fighn to the ah or figh1 paragraph. The figh1 or ah used in the long description will link back to the original figure.
Long descriptions that can’t
Scribe has released a major update to Scribe Tools for InDesign featuring several new tools, improvements, and fixes.
Two new tools, Anchor Boxes and Move Anchor, have been added under Typesetting Adjustments. These are meant for projects where specific paragraph styles have to be systematically moved from the main text flow into anchored text boxes.
An update to the SAI has been released. See the SAI installation documentation page for instructions on updating or installing this package.
Scribe has released major updates to ScML and the Digital Hub. Dozens of new paragraph and character styles have been added to help format your publications, and the Digital Hub has added features to improve the accessibility of e-books produced.
All Well-Formed Document Workflow (WFDW) users will need to update their local resources in order to use the new ScML styles.
Log in to scribenet.com and go to the downloads page to access the updated tools and resources
An update to the SAI has been released. See the SAI installation documentation page for instructions on updating or installing this package.
A Check Hyphenated Terms tool has been added under the Auto-Edit button in the SAI ribbon. This new tool checks the document for any hyphenated terms that also show up unhyphenated. It displays how many instances there are of each variation of a particular term and enables the user to adjust hyphenation either globally or for specific
The Digital Hub and Scribe Tools for InDesign both received an update this week. The Scribe Tools update contains several new tools, while both updates look to improve how language metadata is handled throughout the Well-Formed Document Workflow.
Scribe Tools contains a number of new tools.
Several accessibility improvements have been made to ePubs produced in the Digital Hub. Many of these improvements will be applied automatically to all ePub 3 books produced in the Hub, while others need to be specified in the Hub project record to be included in the output.
Reflecting the growing importance of accessibility in digital publishing, accessibility metadata has been moved into its own dedicated tab on the project page.