Transcript SImple_eText_Ingestion_Orientation

Pearson’s
Simple eText
Production Process
Agenda
• System Overview
• Two Workflows
• Requirements
• Resources
• Tour of the Content Manager &
Authoring
Four Components
• Content Manager FTP server
• Content Manager application
• Authoring application
• Viewer application
Multiple
Environments
• DEV (development)
• CERT (QA testing)
• PPE (Pre-Production Environment) also used for eText test ingestions
• PROD (Production)
Content Manager
• Workflow Status tab, including History
• Standard eBook Workflow tab
• Simple eBook Workflow tab
• Offline Packaging tab
• Audio Text Synch Up tab
• Accessibility
Two Workflows
• Standard eBook Workflow
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XML extracted, processed via FileQA and Desktop Conversion
Toolkit
High-resolution printer PDFs
Optional Basket, Hotspot or Audio spreadsheets
• Simple eBook Workflow
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Required TOC and optional Basket, Glossary, Hotspot or Audio
spreadsheets
High-resolution printer PDFs
Requirements
• Hi-Res Printer PDFs
• Table of Contents
• Cover and other artwork
• Additional enhancements (links,
glossary)
Resources
• Neo:
https://neo.pearson.com/docs/DOC66200
• Media server:
http://media.pearsoncmg.com/cmg/intra
net/ebookplus/spreadsheet.html
• Pearson Knowledge Base:
http://kb.pearsoned.com
Hi-Res PDFs
• PDF 1.4, CMYK, cropped or
uncropped
• If uncropped, must include valid trim
box
• If cropped, do not crop by adjusting
the media box
• From InDesign, export as PDF
• Optimizing highly recommended
Hi-Res PDFs (cont.)
• What you see is more or less what you
get
• No spot colors, no replacement colors
• No hidden elements
• No larger than 30 MB for a single page
PDF
• No larger than 300 MB for a multi-page
PDF, with no single page larger than 30
MB
Table of Contents
• Standard eBook workflow uses
extracted and transformed XML
• Simple eBook workflow uses formatted
MS Excel spreadsheet template
Cover, Artwork &
Icons
• Cover image as PNG and PDF @ 150
dpi
• Typically 1-1.6 MB file size
• ~1008 pixels wide
• Thumbnail in PNG format @ 150 dpi
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90 pixels wide, and proportionately high
• Navigationbar in PNG format @ 150 dpi
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120 pixels wide by 80 pixels high
Should be provided by business unit
• Icons in SWF / PNG @ 150 dpi
Additional
Enhancements
• Standard eBook workflow uses XML
files from XID/ETMv2
• Cross-reference, glossary links in regioninfo.xml
• Glossary
• Simple eBook workflow uses formatted
MS Excel spreadsheets
• Cross-reference, glossary and links to external resources
Basic Ingestion into
Content Manager
• Upload files to the appropriate area of
the Content Manager FTP server
• Ingest PDFs, TOC spreadsheet into the
Content Manager
• Ingest additional spreadsheets, as
applicable
• Upload/publish to Authoring server
Upload files to the
Content Manager
FTP
• FTP client that supports SFTP protocol
• Individual account credentials required
• Contact Erik Unhjem, Ann Sullivan or
Tyler Suydam for FTP access accounts
• Create folders in appropriate location
• Reset folder permissions prior to
uploading
Custom TOC
spreadsheet
• Creates eText table of contents
• Lists all of the PDFs to be included in
eText
• Assigns hierarchy of folders and subfolders
• Guidelines for Preparing Table of
Contents Spreadsheet contains
information about how to build the
spreadsheet
Custom Basket
spreadsheet
• Not required if Table of Contents is the only
basket
• Required for any additional baskets, such as
glossary or other resources
• Spreadsheet already available if glossary is
only addition
• BU may provide or may ask vendor to
produce
Custom Hotspot
spreadsheet
• Cross-reference links
• Glossary links
• Links to externally-hosted rich media
assets
• Use of relative or absolute URLs will
depend on whether any “offline”
package will include rich media assets
Custom Hotspot
spreadsheet (cont.)
• Role
• X/Y location, width/height entries
• Icons
• Alternate media link
Initial Ingestion
• Log into Content Manager application
• Click on Simple eBook workflow tab
• Enter enclosing folder into Identifier
field
• Select appropriate BU/SBU/Directory
• Select appropriate language
• Select XML, PDF processing
• Click Create
Initial Ingestion
(cont.)
• Automated messages
• Workflow status tab
• Low-res PDF processing
• Manage bookinfo
• Manage manifest
• Validate
• Page preview
• Upload/publish to Authoring server
Initial Ingestion
• Perform PDF scaling
• Replace selected pages
• Process all chapters
• Process annotated PDF
(cont.)
Authoring
• Log into PROD2 Authoring:
http://auth.etext.home2.pearsoncmg.co
m/authoring.do
• Search for eText by title, author, Book
ID or Global Book ID
• Click on title to enter eText
Authoring Menu
• Review and Enter Book Metadata
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Make Verso / Recto selection, if necessary
• Specify eText Language and Interface
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Selections should agree, wherever possible
If UI is Elementary, Toolbar Placement should be set to bottom
Audio Text Synch enabled, if appropriate
Other selections
Authoring Menu
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• Specify eText Interface Colors
• Specify SWF and Asset File Paths
• Upload Custom Icons
• Export
• Export for Distribution
Authoring Menu
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• Export
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Captures any edits made in the Authoring server, especially
hotspots
Same as creating a backup in the Content Manager
When initiated from Content Manager, recorded in History
• Export for Distribution
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Create “offline” packages, such as CD/DVD, PSN, OCAS
Configure UI selections
Authoring Menu
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• Review eText Pages, Region Hotspots
and Zoom Areas
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Review pages, pagination, completeness, table
of contents, baskets
Resize and reposition hotspots ingested from
spreadsheet and maybe adjust those from
transformed XML
Adjust or author zoom boxes
Authoring Menu
(cont.)
• Review eText Pages, Region Hotspots
and Zoom Areas
• On initial ingestion, hotspots are
uniform size and aligned to left edge of
page. Icons are aligned with the right
edge.
• Double-click a hotspot to move or
resize
• Selecting, placing icons
• Creating additional hotspots
Editing Hot Spots
• On initial ingestion from a spreadsheet,
hotspots are uniform size and neatly
aligned to left edge of page.
• Double-click a hotspot to move or
resize
• Adjust x/y or w/h in editing panel
• Guidance for sizing and positioning
should be available in the Note field of
the link editing panel
Authoring Hot Spots
• Additional hotspots can be created using
hotspot tool
• Click-and-drag with hotspot tool to create a
new hotspot, and to move or resize it
• Creating new hotspot opens link panel
• Make appropriate selections from Link
Type, Type and Role values
• Link Type selection controls available Type
selections
• Enter appropriate Link Value
Authoring Hot Spots
• Adjust hotspot x/y or w/h in editing panel
• Add Media w/h and x/y or Link x/y as
needed
• Entered Name becomes mouseover
• iPad check box
• Alternate media link for iPad/Android
• Ready-to-Publish check box
Authoring Glossary
Links
• To create a glossary link, use link tool to
create link and then click and drag the
glossary term from the Glossary basket to
the link editing panel
• Appropriate Glossary Entry ID value is
automatically entered
Placing / Editing
Icons
• Installing icons
• On initial ingestion from a spreadsheet,
icons are neatly aligned to right edge
• Double-click an icon to move
• Icons cannot be resized
• Smaller icon artwork is possible, but
associated regions will need to be
edited
• Selecting, placing, authoring additional
Authoring Zoom
Areas
• Can be ingested
from marked PDFs
• Created in the Authoring environment
using Zoom Area Tool
• Select tool and then click and drag
• Adjust x/y and w/h in editing panel
• Assign/re-assign sequence in editing
panel
• BU provides guidance if not ingested
• Double-click to edit created zoom area
Re-positioning Audio
Text Synch Icons
• Clicking Audio Text Synch Icon tool
makes audio text regions appear and
hotspots or icons disappear
• Double-click an icon and then click and
drag to reposition icon or enter x/y
values in editing panel
• Icon can be changed to a hotspot in
editing panel by selecting Region for
Flow Type
Preview Links
• When eText is ready for BU review,
generate Authoring Preview links
• Instructor/Student, iPad
Instructor/Student
• iPad previews for confirming
functionality and icons in the iPad view,
not page rendering
eText Best Practices
• Export from the Authoring server before
making changes
• Create self-derivative
• Purge previous versions in Content
Manager
• Preserve XML and logs