Latest Releases
An update to the SAI has been released. See the SAI installation documentation page for instructions on updating or installing this package.
The latest Digital Hub update improves existing file checks and adds new checks that identify possible errors in tables of contents.
The new checks compare entries in the table of contents to the linked titles in the book. One check lists the first five potential text mismatches. The other reports the first five character style mismatches to help identify things like dropped or misapplied italics. To run the checks, convert a file with a TOC to ScML. Alternatively, upload an already linked ScML
An update to the SAI has been released. See the SAI installation documentation page for instructions on updating or installing this package.
The Split Document tool has been renamed to Split/Merge and now includes this new tool. Use it to select a folder of files (or individual files in a folder, if on Windows) and merge them into one file.
The latest change to the Digital Hub updates some metadata fields to match the current standards and pass multiple versions of the EPUBCheck validator. The Hub has been updated to use the latest version of EPUBCheck (version 5.2.1).
In addition to the ability to add a Conformance Description and a Certifying Organization to ebooks, projects that have both fields filled out can now include the following metadata:
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.