AquafadasFixed Layout Reading Experience for Comics, Children Books, Table Books.

Books MagazinesEnterpriseComics

Agenda

1. Who we are ? What we do...2. The AVE Formati)The motivations ?ii)Improving readability of FL documents : Comics, Table Books, ...1. Advanced FL Documents (including epub3)i)Use cases - Demosii)Challenges - Our dreams for epub3

The crazy stuff !

Aquafadasin a nutshell

- French Startup (2006)- Tool makers :

- Digital Comic Book Store (> 2500 books)- Digital Publishing Solution : from authoring (ID and Quark) to cloud-based-distribution and app building - Designed a very rich, fixed layout format : AVE- epub3 friendly : FL and reflow export from InDesign CS5+

Aquafadas ... in a nutshell

Video/Animationsoftware

html5authoring

digital comicsauthoring +

platformdigital publishing

MotionComposer

Aquafadas ... customers

Aquafadas today, 6/7/2012

- member of IDPF for a few weeks only, but...

Delighted to be able to share our experience,maybe even inspire you

and help working on the epub3standard...and beyond

Format

AVE Format

Why ?

?

AVE Format

• Back in 2007, no standard Fixed Layout, Image-friendly format• Experiment with immersive reading UI• Experiment with resolution/screen independant solutions• Control the reader UI• Propose Reading Cinematics• Support enrichment layers, including enrichments by the community

AVE Format - the origins

• Layers• root layer = original doc• each layer describes a processing on the root layer, or additional content to composite• rendering by a dedicated reader

QuickTime™ and aH.264 decompressor

are needed to see this picture.

AVE Format

Original content (en)

iPad cinematics by Aquafadas

iPhone cinematics by Aquafadas

Localization (jp)

Interactivity /multimedia enrichments

<cinematics> <cinematic id=”iPad”...>

<page pageId=”0”>...</page>

</cinematic></cinematics>

<localizations><localization id=”jp”>

<page pageId=”0”>...</page>

</localization>

</localizations>...

AVE FormatiPad cinematics

by Bob

Localization by Bill(fr)

FreeDigital Comics AuthoringTool

AVE Format - the vision

Collaborative authoringCommunity buildingNew artistic expressionNo copyright/rights infringementNew economy

Reading Comics

Who wants to pinch, pan and zoom ?????

Animated reading (small screens)•Scenes : to extract images•Shots : to animate paths•transitions : to animate paths

Page reading• The standard approach : panel Views (Comixology, Amazon)

AVE Comics - Page reading (1)

• Aquafadas approach : Scenes, shots and ideal_text_zoom•Scenes : represent an area of the page that needs to be displayed at least once as a single entity. Can be polylines•Shots : represent linked zones (progression) of the page that need to be displayed in sequence when the scene is not entirely visible or when zoom factor < ideal_text_zoom

AVE Comics - Page reading (2)

• Dynamic reading path : on-the-fly adjustment when user zooms•Scenes : the viewer will attempt to show as many scenes as possible that fit in the viewport given the zoom factor•Shots : the viewer will zoom into a scene to view shots when the current viewport means that the current zoom < ideal_text_zoom

Adjust toUser / Tired /

Viewing impaired

MinimizesMoves

Make sure itis readable /Guide the

unexperiencedreader

DemosComics

Improving readibility for Table Books

• PDF background• Enrichments in overlays• Guided reading• Reflow• User chooses the zoom factor > accessibility

Redon - AppStore - (c) RMN - Grand Palais

DemosGuided Reading

The crazy stuff !

Advanced FL

All content in the following demos has

been created by designers and does not involve any

hand-written code

Use Case 1 : Controlling the reader

ImageImage

AnimationAnimation

ButtonButton

ButtonButton

ButtonButton

ButtonButton

ButtonButton

ButtonButton

• Control the UI• Control the Navigation

• Make document hierachical

2

Use Case 2 : Non linear books

1 2 2.1

2.2

2.3

3• Has become a fairly ‘standard’ in the magazine world

StoryV1

StoryV2

Credits

•Remove the navigation between pages•Add buttons from the 1st page to launch different versions of the book

Mix styles in a single document : Magazines/Books

• Open a different reader inside a reader

Fixed Layout Epubs : challenges

• handling animations in spreads•handling sound effects in spreads

AnimationAnimation

SoundSound

Conclusion

Conclusion•Adaptative Guided Reading is a great way to improve readability of books, including comics, as well as a way to improve acessibility of FL books•eBooks can be more than books...without requiring any coding. Designers/Publishers/Individuals can great content.

•Aquafadas wants to contribute extending the possibilities of FL epub3 when it comes to comics, table books, children books•Aquafadas continuously improving epub3 support in its tools. • Aquafadas will soon introduce Aquafadas Digital Factory, an easy to use workflow portal for epub3, digital comics creation from images, PDFs,...

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Aquafadas

Contact - Matthieu Kopp - mkopp@aquafadas.com

www.aquafadas.com

www.avepublishing.com