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1. Address When you click the form but ton usually Submit the edit box identi fiers and their contents are passed to the CGI program or sent to an e mail address The form start marker s properties deter mine what happens when the form is sub mitted Inserting forms Using Insert gt Form gt Form element we can insert any kind of form element Firstly you will be asked for a form start marker Fig 71 The form start marker is mandatory and specifies the action taken by the browser when the user presses a form Submit button If you are unsure of where to position the marker simply press OK You have the option to change the form start marker properties at any time using the right mouse button and Properties In the next dialog Fig 72 you could select the first tab for example and insert your email address if you decide to have the input data sent by email Then with the next window Fig 73 you can insert edit boxes memo lists and other elements useful when creating a form It is very important to assign a diffe 43 Fig 70 An indexE aeh example eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION JOY example page File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools Help rae QO a lal H p ka La LOJ per 7U COROMs IPERSPRO Eng CLIENT F ES_A v containing a simple Arial MM Black v 10 z aan B Z 8 form i TIT kt Hha o l eur NI Ta KT KENN EN KN a KE iced CS Simpl
2. images hot spots areas backgrounds icons thumbnails styles and fonts CSS frames templates HTML Applets AEH ASP download DOC ZIP PDF Flash Import files ebook protection and publishing generic questions purchase TUTORIALS BASIC Can EBooksWriter manage frames And what 60 about the mouseover The popup windows Can it create EXE EPUB MOBI with a click Does it protect my work Does it make the coffee The answer is always yes well not for the coffee but we re working on it please better read this manual for details Please notice that some features are not supported by some ebook formats regrettably mobi and epub have internal constraints and do support only very basic things them not EBooksWriter I have used another editor before and I can t understand how to manage HTML files with EBooksWriter EBooksWriter is a standalone tool with a full featured text editor not only a compiler of external pages within EBW pages are memori zed in a format that is more secure than HTML and you don t need to deal with HTML or codes as EBW is all visual That said if needed you can import old HTML pages with File gt Import The epub mobi opf idpf formats that are someway based on HTML XML are gene rated automatically with a procedure that auto matically assures to produce a correct coding I am very interested in yo
3. efine a lot of image properties image 3Pfeperties or right mouse button You can make the image transparent vou can resize it vou can change the image when mouse is over You Mi e DaBo se 59 ka Bese oo ae age to see an example Image underline that the correct way to position a image somewhere is by using invisible tables please see the Chapter 10 Graphics and paging pages for learning the reasons and more details about this positioning technique that is usually not used when producing documents for the paper and instead is fundamental for pa ging documents for the video You should never use spaces to position images this is wrong and usually it causes problems There is a simple way to test against pro blems move EBooks Writer in window mode not full screen you do this with a double click on a title bar then resize the EBooksWriter dialog horizontally and take a look at your layout The ebook should look good also in a very tight win dow a lot of ebook reader devices have a small screen If something wrong happens then you must try to repeat the examples is Chapter 10 Yes open a test file and try to redo what explained to just read the text passively could be insufficient Icons thumbnails photo album With Insert gt Image gallery photo album Fig 37 and 38 Gold edition only you can automatically create a photo album image gallery quickly by selec
4. Another useful feature allows you to replace an image either on a single page or using automatic substitution throughout the entire hypertext see Fig 39 In addi tion using the Album window Hypertext gt Images files link archive and erase you can globally interact with all images included in the hypertext Last but not least it is important to 9 Insert images Fig 35 You can insert an image From internal photo album E From disk From other hypertext from the internal a gt amp Plugin album or from a Search image disk using Insert gt Image Arrows Me a a _WhiteD own gif a Blink Sx gif a _WhiteRedD own gif a BIkShadowDown a AG TRI GIF 34 BIkShadowDx gif lm BACK GIF ma BIkShadowSx gif BACK1 GIF 21 BlkShadowUp sit a BACKGLOW GIF a bluMovDx gif la BlinkDx gif 34 bluMovSx gif lt gt Transparent 26 g Immagini aeh example eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION LICE Fig 36 Inserting a clickable zone hot spot into an image GO 2 File Edit Search Image Format Hypertext Tools gt bel Rel l Aper UACDROMSNIPERSPROSEnGNOLIENTNFRESLAJ 2 Help ink for each one Cli 250x94 define one or more hot spots clickable areas For example use the right mouse button and Add area or Delete area You can move and resize the areas and you can define a different leker mon Sceno E
5. Fig 134 A correct page when shown in different windows 1 6 1997 Nasce il Corriere della Fantascienza Nasce la versione giornaliera della vostra rivista mensile Delos Science Fiction Si tratta un a nuovo strumento di consultazione in Internet dedicato alla science fiction che si intitola CORRIERE DELLA FANTASCIENZA Vuole essere un giornale con cadenza quasi quotidiana che punta diritto all informazione Se visitate questa pagina di volta in volta troverete le notizie pi recenti da tutto il mondo Notizie che spaziano dal mondo del cinema a quello dei libri dalla multimedialit al piccolo schermo Al di AADDITNTTTTTA TARTMACGITATTA M4 139 Document Done J a 4 1 6 1997 Nasce il Corriere della Fantascienza Q asce la versione giornaliera della vostra rivista mensile Delos Science Fiction Si tratta un nuovo strumento di consultazione in Internet dedicato alla science fiction che si intitola CORRIERE DELLA FANTASCIENZA Vuole essere un giornale con cadenza quasi Curtoni quotidiana che punta diritto all informazione Se visitate questa pagina di volta in volta troverete le notizie pi recenti da tutto il mondo Notizie che spaziano dal mondo del cinema a quello dei N libri dalla multimedialit al piccolo schermo Al CORRIERE DELLA FANTASCIENZA collabora con la rubrica satirica quotidiana Le frasi Celebri l ex direttore di
6. File gt Save all or with the toolbar button you save all ebook hypertext pages with a single click in the tutorial it says then let s press the link button in the toolbar sheet and chain or gt Insert gt Link from the main menu but there is no button labeled link in the tool bar and which toolbar Select a text block then choose from the main menu Insert then Link if you aren t able to find the button with the image of the sheet and the chain If you are on an image use the right mouse button and choose Define link How can I set the size of a page You can t set the size of the page as you can t know what monitor and what window will be used by the people that will see your site The 61 safe way is to always use tables it is the default in EBW and not to assume that the pages have a fixed size Please read Chapter 10 Graphics and paging pages I want to change the page numbering as I want to insert a page between page I and 2 but I can t Please remember that the end user will not see the EBooksWriter page numbers Ok if you really need to do that you can insert say a page 3 copy the 2 to 3 with Edit gt Paste page from then delete all the text within page 2 Agreed this is not quite what you are looking for but the page number box is only for internal use You define the path for the reader with links or with Hypertext gt Predefined page order
7. From within the same window you can also set an expiry expiration date for the ebook brochure for example you could inhibit reading after the 11 5 2012 Then you can define a editing pas sword to completely prevent unauthorized changes to the text by EBW users the ebook is always read only this editing password is to prevent editing in case the Fig 22 x With Hypertext options Hypertext Information Page settings background Password Cart Reader Show options gt Current hypertext Title The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz ETT properties you set Authors L Frank Baum up copy and print Company Export prefix protection expiry Copyright oz expiration data o and a edit Charset 180 8859 Inglese Stati Unit e Aeh Exe password the ebook is always read only this is to prevent editing in case the end user owns EBooksWriter Other info Aeh read only Pass for editing DI E Cancel v show license no install delete VirtualVault expiration date 7 a disable print disable clipboard copy disable print screen grabbing Gold 17 9 Special links JO Fig 23 With insert special link you can place a link such as click here to print the page or a print button Link kind choose a tab v e Other link you can insert with this page are p
8. TOC The end users see only the page titles so it really makes no difference If you were to label page 24 as Page 1 and page 45 as Page 2 this would have no effect on your readers e g they do not know that page 45 is the internal page under Page 2 The EBW page number is just a facility to allow you to switch pages fast without having to remember the proper page names Can I change the number of page 0 This is not possible If you want to set another page as home page simply choose Hypertext gt Current hypertext properties and click on the left on cover Any page can be used as cover not just the 0 The 0 is just the default As said the end user won t see the page number whatever it is How can I place a link inside the same page The links within the same page are called Anchors You need first to place the Anchors In order to do this move the cursor to the link destination and use Insert gt Anchor from the main menu or SHIFT F5 You will see an anchor icon If you select it with the right mouse button you can edit its properties A number is assigned to each anchor Now select the text block or the image you want to link and use Insert gt Special link on an image right mouse button Define special 62 link Click on OK in the window that will be shown Then you will see a dialog where you can select the destination Anchor Click on the an chor then click
9. I don t understand how to insert a link Select a text block then press the button with a page and chain In the window displayed you can link to an existing page in the hypertext or to a newer one more options are also available If for example you choose new page then press OK EBooksWriter will create the new page for you and will show the page in the editor If you link to an existing page you can choose it from an active preview active means that you can navigate through it like in a browser When you press OK the link is made and EBW shows the destination page in the editor See also the tuto rial How can I link an external Html page for example an Html page that already exists on my Web site Hightlight a text block chain button or Insert gt Link choose the Internet tab third tab click the Add button and write in the left box the address e g http mysite com mpage htm then press OK How can I manage the pages different from the main one Just with links In the bottom center there is a box with the current page number Click on it with the right mouse button you will have a list of the most recent visited pages You can also use Hypertext gt Images files link archive and erase Hypertext gt Go to page File gt All pages How can I copy a page within another in same hypertext with Html I can do it with save as then open Is there a
10. as an AEH file that can be read by the free EBooksReader and now also as Opf Mobi Epub the new popular formats that you can read on PC Macin tosh Palm Pocket PC Windows Mobile CE SymbianOS iLiad eBookMan Kin dle Blackberry Mac OS X Sony Reader Handheld PC and several new cell phones But this is already too long as introduc tion To say it concisely EBooksWriter is a powerful tool for people who want to be free to think about what they re writing instead of getting confused with program ming files or code The application requires a PC with MSWindows 95 osr2 98 Me NT 2000 2003 XP Vista 7 and at least a old Pentium I 100MHz 32Mb of RAM and 32MB of free Hard Disk space We are sure you will appreciate both our software and the vast effort behind producing it Enjoy 1 Your first work O you have EBooks Writer installed on your PC either from a CD or the Internet distribution release you will doubtless be impatient to make your first page The first thing to keep in mind is that EBooks Writer operates on a whole ebook not on single pages This means that multi ple pages are loaded 1n memory at the same time This set of pages is also called hypertext At any time once they are created it is possible to browse pages create new links navigate throughout a file or carry out a search The easiest way to pass from one page to another is using CTRL and CTRL keys Ins
11. ebookswriter com x Fig 33 This window allows you E OO to include any file amp BE Ga OU kec TE BE TE E within your selected file hypertext access it I disk From the intemal archive using Insert Do gt Link e Search tun this file without asking for user confirmation pat wie Ge man fax UX70 75 F0251_OM_GB pdf All files se Expert users will be able to use additio nal special links Chapter 6 Images It is possible to insert an image by clicking the Insert Image tool button or by selecting Insert gt Image Map from the menu The window shown in Fig 35 displays allowing us to select the source of the image to include This can be from disk from an existing image in the internal al bum or from another hypertext To take an image from the internal clipart collection you must select From disk and then click on the Clipart but ton the icon with the mountain and the sun Once an image is inserted you can assign a link to the image using the right mouse button you can Define a link the same way as for the text links shown above Details of special links follows later define one or more clickable zones or hot spots an image with hot spots is also called image map using the 25 Fig 34 This window allows you to create a link toa new page created by copying it from a template DLink to choose a ta
12. highlighting a text block and using Insert gt Link If you need something more elabo rate and powerful you have to use Insert gt Special link or Image gt Define special link if you want to associate a link to the selected image you may also right click the image then Define special link We suggest that you don t attempt using special links until you are familiar with the normal ones Chapter 1 There are many available options for special links Firstly you can link to another page witha click a window will show anew browser window will show the destination page replaces the frame that contains the link the destination page will show in another frame or window the destination page will show as a popup window the destination page is opened at a fixed row marked by an anchor see below Additionally you can set up the fol lowing behaviors a click on the link will close a window link to a different position on the page using anchors a click on the link will show the se arch by keyword window click to show the search window this works only in the editor reader a chick will print the current page or a frame Within this chapter we will also see how to open windows automatically when the user enters a page without any click You can setup all these things visually i e you do not have to do anything difficult or write any code However note that
13. usually free If you distribute the EXE instead nothing else is needed Any user without EBooks Writer installed who loads an EXE ebook will see the ebook in a read only environment In the same way a user that loads an AEH file and tries to read it with the free EBooksReader will have the same read only environment The end user reader would not normally have EBooks Writer installed on their PC but you can however setup a password to prevent editing even in such a case What does self extracting or EXE ebooks do Self extracting means you ll provide a single 67 file to your user which the user clicks on to see the ebook without the need of external programs such Internet Explorer etc In other words self extracting means very easy to read for the final user I mis understand that the whole program has to be downloaded to view the book However whenever someone downloads my book this way it is on their EDIT screen Is there a way I can save it so when others download it it will be in read only or preview mode No the end user has not EBooksWriter like you do and you should not supply EBooksWriter to the user Use File gt Save SFX ebook and you ll have an autoinstall ebook that will show in rad mode Supply this to the reader and she he will read your book Alternatively you can save as EPUB MOBI or AEH What can I do with an AEH Can I only see it with EBooks Writer EBooksReader If not
14. AEH file When you test the ebook it may generate a ERP file don t distribute it Multiple password generation When you have to generate a lot of pas swords you may find useful the Mass generation button It takes in input a file with the format each line john smith jo smi com it outputs a file each line John smith jo smi com WyJh3 With the Gold edition you may also use this mass generation by calling EBooks Writer command line with these parame ters mass seed inputfile outputfile 21 4 Main functions N we ve had some practice with the simplest ways to manage pages and links let s have a look at the main text functions and how we can use them Text format Nowadays all word processors have standard buttons to let you apply bold and italic characteristics to the text and EBW is no different you can also change the color size and character font In addi tion EBW offers you the ability to define your own text styles in much the same way as MS Word or Word Perfect do Links can have their own properties you have to use styles to modify them Styles Text styles can be used to save different paragraph settings Styles can be defined and or applied to the text using the Paragraph toolbar or from the Format menu 22 The easiest way to understand the ad vantages of using styles is to consider this document you re reading now every single
15. OK You can test the result in read only mode Hypertext gt Read only How can I link to an anchor placed in a diffe rent page Select the text block you want to link then Insert Special link In the dialog that will be shown do not choose the first tab but one of the others e g second tab Normal then OK and select the destination page Within the preview of that page you can click on the destination Anchor the number will be copied in the box that s on the right at the bottom of the window I ve not been able to find out if I can have different colors for links in the same frame You should define different text styles Each text style can have its own color style for the links Use Format gt Styles then the last tab link You can also set up the style of the link underlined bold or so Where can I find information about pages con tained in an ebook How can I manage pages Creation Insert gt New page Insert gt Link Insert gt Special link Deletions management Hypertext gt Images files link archive and erase Access Hypertext gt Go to page the bottom center page number box right mouse button on this box When I m editing an aeh file how can I delete a page in my case page 0 as it is empty Page 0 can t be deleted For other pages use Hypertext gt Images files link archive and erase You can also cut amp paste another page to fill the page 0
16. and summary is page 0 If your page 0 is empty nothing is shown If you want the user to see other pages you must properly set the Cover and Summary pages and you MUST place links All the internal methods that EBooksWriter provides for browsing pages are available only to the author The reader must click on links to switch pages so YOU decide what can be read by whom and in what order For epub and mobi ebooks you can define the linear reading path for the reader with Hypertext gt Predefined page order TOC When I am writing my ebook and save it as an SFX exe when I try to look at the book on screen it only shows the cover page and nothing else even though I saved it with 5 pages in it Can you please help You must insert some links for the other pages either arrows text links or some way for the reader to navigate through your Ebook Remem ber that the end user can not use the page number facility which is provided just as a quick means to switch between pages during development With links you can move the user from page 0 to 45 and then to 3 and to 2 it is not necessary to adopt the structure of a regular printed book How do I keep the file size to a minimum I downloaded Oz and the only difference I see is that my book has more frames in it Do the frames increase the file size Humm no the thing that increases the file size is the number and type of the images included Use a graphics program su
17. as example An alter native method is to use Format gt Styles then select the style and apply your changes If you simply apply a style to a para graph pre existing formatting is retained To clear all existing formatting and keep all para graphs true to style use Format gt Reformat T he style con ceptis a rela tively recent thing origi nating from word proces sing and desktop publishing applications The majority of applications distinguish between style and format Style means all properties defined in the Style applied to a paragraph Format applies to the same attribu tes but those applied locally with toolbar buttons or with Format gt Font You can have two paragraphs that ap Before starting a new project it is always a good idea to spend a few minutes to set up the styles you will use This will save a lot of time if you later need to make modifications 23 pear identical on the screen but are in fact different EBooksWriter maintains this di stinction as does MS Word and certain other editors because this is what users of styles expect Links Let s take a look now at some different link types in addition to the ones we ve seen in Chapter 1 As already stated crea ting a link is as simple as selecting a text block and clicking the chain tool button but we can also choose Insert gt Link from the menu In the dis
18. browse E a images in table cells to 0 0 1 zi As background for any new page of this hypertext b use color LI TOWS use image amp browse 51 Fig 95 Header Page properties and footer for a Text properties Frame properties Header and footer More functions slides age Pa e Header pe g g none browse page properties dialog Footer O none global O defined here browse page EBooksWriter Manual Main menu Search What is sWriter Overview Buy register a Frequent questions FAQ Tutorials Protect ebook Get EBooksWriter electronic edition or CD Get HP EBW CDROM Contact us User s Web forum EBooksWriter Web site le Cancel n Fig 96 The Page properties simplest way to Text properties Frame properties Header and footer More functions slides switch a page to Sides another one V Change page within 5 i seconds browse page shown after N Selected page 04 Wide range of protections z m seconds Wide range of secure protections E previous next gt With EbooksWriter you can prohibit print or copy set an expiration date password protect all or part of the ebook and assign different passwords for different users Protecting your ebook is a very handy task Hypertext options Information P
19. can see the anchors 7 Special links Home Top Cancel Special links properties LON Link kind choose a tab In frame or window A a Bee e Anchor here you can insert a link to an anchor in current page Anchor 1 si Visual edit to change the window content for example If two links use the same name for a window e g Goofy and you click first on the link 1 then on the link 2 you will not show two different windows so it is imperative that each window has a unique name unless you really want to show the same window from two different links maybe with a different content sometimes this can be very useful The separate window can be shown as an ordinary window or as a popup win 39 max Fig 104 More link Special tnks types Link kind choose a tab EL Mm Normal mi Eve aj GE Cart Normal you insert a link where Target window frame shows as press OK to select destination page Target page shows in current window identical to normal link but can also jump to an anchor O in current window replaces caller page O opening a new browser window NOTE You can use Insert gt Link Ctr F5 to show destination page in current window in a easy way that is the normal link Cancel dow The difference is that a popup closes whenever a user clicks on it o
20. devi ces will permit you to access the special pages with a drop down menu or with special buttons Some will ignore You should specify all what you are able to specify then don t count on these settings they are optional things that can be shown or not to the end user Now let s see the Mobi tab Fig 19 here you can specify some settings that are specifical for the Mobi format such as the Fig 18 The DPredefined page order Chapters TOC LON Hypertext x Put in order hypertext vi define order withi ill be printed e i A i Predefined page This order is saved and willbe used by readers to sardo order TOC sunt 4 Add page Choose dialog where you Add chapter O gt sl Table of Contents 2 can define the 5 iz Ozaeh 4 Introduction This story belongs to E The Wizard of Oz the children linear path for E The Wonderful Wizard of Oz printing all Chapter 1 The Cyclone Dorothy formats when enabled and reading opf mobi epub lt Chapter 2 The Council with the Munchk Chapter 3 How Dorothy Saved the Scar Chapter 4 The Road Through the Fores Chapter 5 The Rescue of the Tin Wooc Chapter 6 The Cowardly Lion E Chapter 7 The Journey to the Great Oz w Toto and the house they were in are picked up by a tornado and carried away from Kansas Chapter 2 The Council with the Munchkins Dorothy awakens in a strange and beautiful land and is told gt by
21. gt AE a BL Q iper UACDROMs IPERSPRO Eng CLIENT F ES_ Aly Image buttons in Favia o ENOCE use Ege o a a a Raa a an To plektoj W Eboo overview buy get it now questions FAQ t tutorials PDF online visual manual home 1 MWIMEr pagoj Form with image button You can use fancy images as buttons Here an example To obtain something like this you need to use Insert gt Forms gt Buttons then Choose image LI Insert your name Next l 0 0 muammola aB e sip ala HY modified Text Form with image button 283 346 Frame BottomFr using the Advanced tab of the button link right click the image then from the properties window menu choose Define Link or Define By the way for normal jumps links it special link is better to use a simple image and a simple 46 8 Shopping cart BooksWriter includes a visual shopping cart facility that can be useful for creating a product catalog ebook Gold edition only A click on a text block or on a Image can be used to add a product 1n the shopping cart The shopping cart is shown in a popup window the window can be printed and sent by fax or postal mail or its content can be sent to your email address if the user is connected To define the shopping cart properties use Hypertext gt Current hypertext proper
22. mail Pos Start a program with Post method ser Start a program with Get method der Jue http www cc ukans edu cgi bin post query rent identifier for each element apart from the radio buttons Radio buttons are used in groups offering your user a choice and only one item may be selected The identifier must be the same for all buttons within a group while the button name identifies the actual button Fig 70 shows a simple form with a text cell and a button To insert a button use Insert gt Forms gt Button There are two kinds of button submit and reset The reset button simply resets all form fields to their original state The submit button starts the action specified in the form start marker The button can be a classic button or an image To use an image as a button simply 44 click on select image you can select any image from the internal album You can insert more than one form within the same page No form end marker is required If you include two forms on the same page the form start marker of the second form will also act as the form end marker for the first form Each Send button will be active only for the form that contains it Fig 74 shows an interesting example we define a form that will toggle a page change Firstly we must ensure that the form start marker is defined as in Fig 75 Then for each included button we have to define t
23. may have added something to that We wish you success working with EbooksWriter and feel sure you will gain almost as much satisfaction using it as we did while designing and writing it Ing Aldo Ghigliano President Visual Vision Table of Contents Welcome Table of Contents Introducing EBooksWriter 1 Your first work Inserting links browsing links Links and reading path 2 Publishing a compact ebook exe mobi epub Self installing exe ebook Reader screen show options Placing links is mandatory Embedded files Mobi and Epub ebooks Distribution ecommerce marketing 3 Protecting an ebook Protections Different password s for each reader user Multiple password generation 4 Main functions Text format Styles Links Images Thumbnails Tables 5 Frames and frame sets Creating frames Links Copying layout of existing frames Floating frames 6 The Special links Anchors Showing windows Links inside to a frame set Showing windows without a click 7 Forms Inserting forms 8 Shopping cart 9 Multimedia objects Sounds and video Headers and footers Slides Keywords Table of contents predefined page order 10 Graphics and paging pages Displaying information on the screen Everything s relative Invisible tables Backgrounds Clickable maps hot spots and browsing bars Frames Don t exaggerate 11 Frequent questions 11 17 22 31 36 43 47 49 53 60 Intr
24. page has a title the title style is the same for all pages and is different from the text style Titles are larger and use a different font or typeface Saving different styles for titles and normal text offers these advantages You save time in applying a set of attributes if we hadn t used the Title style for this book we would have needed to select each chapter s title applied a font and a size applied bold You can immediately modify multiple pages or even the whole document by simply changing one little thing If you decide to use green for the titles you just need to modify Title style and it will be applied to all pages instantly You can use styles in many different ways The easiest way to create a new style is to apply text attributes to a text block As an example you can select any number Styles properties Fig 30 Here you can define a new Styles El Normal Style or modify an existing one you E NomalGreen lm can even copy a a Tip Note Heading El Tip Note Text Bulleted Style from another El Topic Text Indent hypertext using lt Import LUJ Example E Topic Text Onestep Text Paragraph Lines Lists Measure unit Link Arial x EE Black M 11 gt Import styles The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dag The quick brown fox jump
25. recently visited pages will be shown you can also use the red arrow buttons at the top left to go to previous or next visited pages Using the Hypertext menu at the top click Hypertext gt Read only to switch to a non editable preview of the ebook This is handy as you won t need to click twice amp Untitled eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION oe Fig 4 Let s write File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools Help something in 5 z gt o l ui 00 4 2 PH S O O few Jess Arial JM ei v t4 fano Biz gel lier i I Iiu l ee l pe l i l jo I e l Ire l 189 l 1 e Mi ei Mj Mu kOn kar b Potatoes potatoes Bold This page is about potatoes We could write a lot of things about Back to the previous page SiS m sr RB DI BB Fig 5 The window Linkto where you can choose a tab visually choose the amp GG ea BE se TPE ee se G target for your link page selected in list below La DI fame Search for page Available pages 0 Vegetables We could write a lot of things about vegetables Let s start with potatoes Or maybe not Let s start with lo lo Ok Cancel Ok but don t jump now Fig 6 We re back Untitled eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION Lou to page 0 an d can File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools Help see that the link to GOL 5 PH eB DOG re T
26. save new templates to save time in the future Fig 62 A page containing a floating frame Fig 63 The dialog window for independent frames You can also call it by clicking on a frame with the right mouse button and selecting Properties Frame set properties l Advanced frame management Load from template Copy from other page Copy frame layout from selected Template Copy layout Frame sets frm lv a Templates MenuSup O FrameTemplates je four border frm El FOUR FRM E FOUR1 FRM El tre 1 w o border rm E tre 1 without border frm tre 1 frm El two horizontal 100 frm Menu E two horizontal 11 frm E two horizontal border frm Princ E two horizontal sup fix B0 frm E two horizontal frm E two vertical 1 frm two vertical 102 frm E two vertical w o border frm FramesEBW aeh example eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION LOG File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools Help QO A2ZzHlHdee nnua pen AJNCDROMSUPERSPROVEnGNOLIENTVRES Av Arial x mm block v 10 2 aar B 7 8 Sa Ear Pa Ra daar NM ry Floating frame T Use Insert gt Floating frame to obtain what follows To manage this kind of page you should see Special link examples T e Page in floating frame Jl This page must be created separately To insert this page in anoth
27. ties then the Cart tab Fig 201 To add a shopping cart link select a text block and use Insert gt Link to shopping cart or select an image and use Image gt Define special link then last tab Each link contains the product price currency de scription and the product code The shopping cart properties window is Fig 200 Use Special links LER Insert gt Link to SES shopping cart to choose a tab Catt allow the user to eb E x le Cat add a product in A click on the link adds an item in the automatic shopping cart Please define the item and the the shopping cart cart properties Code lowercase id48216 Description 0 Product price Currency or label See Hypertext gt Current hypertext properties gt Cart for the Shopping Cart options for this hypertext site E Cancel i 47 Fig 201 the shopping cart Information Page settings background Password Cart Reader Show options properties dialog Send fom datato mailto youremail yourisp com Colors Eg mM Custom Hypertext Fax tt Remarks usa Ipertesto gt Propriet corrente ipertesto per cambiare questa gt Current hypertext properties Fig 202 We Shopping cart inserted two N Quantity Unit price Code Descr Total products in the ili tan DAAE 30 95 cart to view the cart Insert gt Link to shopping cart then Total click on
28. 2 H I p kau loa C no style v appro E F F wa i N Lo ei ku ce Arial MJE Black v 14 2 aa Boz 2 liero i p a oes 0 gi TP l ee l pe l i I jo l IGI l Ire l 2 l I pe Mi pes Moj MO IKON a b example Vegetables We could write a lot of things about vegetables Let s start with potatoes Or maybe not Let s start with BHa OMo A aBa ie A Ba 1 66 HY modified P modified Text Untitled 2 0 0 Pago Fig 3 The Link DLink to to window where choose a tab you can define E Bee Es simple links just select the last tab empty page Su ks os se se 6 tion on the screen so let s choose Vegetables Click on the OK button and EBooks Writer takes us to the page in Fig 6 page 0 Notice here that the link to potatoes is underlined blue text by de fault this can be changed with the Styles If we double click on the word potatoes the editor will automatically switch to the Potatoes page page 1 From this page we can double click on Back to previous page to return again to page 0 and so on As you can see crea ting links and navigating through them with EBooksWriter is really very easy There are several ways provided to move from page to page you can type the page number directly in the page number text box use the up and down arrows be side it use the right mouse button over the same text box a list of
29. Add new page or by using the shortcut button on the lower toolbar Then let s choose Format gt Advanced frameset ma nager from within the new page this will open the window in Fig 57 Here we select the tab Copy from other page and choose Page A Fig 58 At this point we need to click on Copy also non master frames to copy the full layout of page A in this case the only non master frame is the Index one Pressing OK will lead us to Fig 60 where the right frame is the master page of Page C As you will notice this is a very quick and easy way to create side menus and also to reproduce frames It is possible to position the master frame on the left or at the bottom rather than on the right using the Advanced frameset manager window You can save the current frame layout as a template button Save in Fig 56 or alternatively you can use a previously sa ved template as the current page using the Load from template tab Fig 61 From this tab simply choose the template you want to use and click on Copy layout A preview will be displayed as shown in Fig 56 All that s needed now is to confirm your choice with the OK button to re turn to the editor and your copy Floating frames You can insert a floating frame as shown in Fig 62 using Insert gt Floating 35 Fig 61 You can save time by copying layouts from the templates or
30. Background color autosize popup add X and Y Name the_large Title Image the program will automatically create ten thumbnails and will link them to either a simple page image title a popup win dow or a given frame You may force the program to resample the large image say your images are 2400 x 1600 and you need images with a more reasonable size for the Web such as 640 x 400 If the thumbnails link to popup dialogs the popup contains the large image you can set up the popup Fig 39 Use the image properties window to define alternative text for the image together with many other settings Fig 40 It is possible to choose an alternative image to display when the mouse cursor is over it 28 g Image properties Selected image properties Low res mouse rollover Replace image in whole hypertext Altemative text NEWS AWARDS IMG News 1 Position O Bottom Center OTop Original size XY Border 105 28 o 4 Size to X Y e je Percent 9 Image properties Selected image properties Low res mouse rollover Replace image in whole hypertext Low res image E m Image when mouse over NEWS AWARDS sm Fig 41 This 9 Image properties window allows you to replace every occurrence of an image used in the whole hypertext in one hit Every time this image is used Sel
31. EBooksWriter User s Manual SE Visual Vision C 1998 2010 Visual Vision C 1996 2010 Aldo Ghigliano Web site www ebookswriter com Visual Vision Web site www visualvision com Credits Paolo Bevilacqua Chris Paris EYK Associates Welcome Whether or not the printed page will be around forever is unknown What do know for certain is that it has now a powerful much cheaper brother the electronic book The true power of the electronic book is not the possible musical content the animations the videos and the attractive images but the hyperlinks the text search capabilities and the ease of distribution Imagine hyperlinks on the paper imagine a paper book where you can input mickey and find where that word is written what page and what line with pages that automatically browse imagine a book that costs almost nothing With our EBooksWriter software the creation of electronic books with all these features and even more is finally available to all If you have something to say you just need to type it and then with a click you can have a self installing exe ebook or alternatively a mobi or a epub ebook Add this to the Web should you need this VisualVision has products also for creating a good Web site and you can distribute your book to the whole world just like the Big Publishers do with the printed paper versions It s a nice world isn t it We are proud to think that our little contribution
32. Fig 13 if you click on OK then a compact self installing exe file will be immediately generated Additionally if you wish you can save your ebook as AEH file the native format used by EBW to save your ebooks with File gt Save ebook In this case your users will need the free EBooksReader software for reading the ebooks Last but not least it is useful to notice that when you choose to protect your pages with passwords see next Chapter you will also find on your Hard Disk a EWP file This file must not be delivered to the readers and must not be deleted because it contains the passwords seeds Reader screen show options As you can see from Fig 15 you can set several show options for the ebook You can show it with a predefined size and position but be careful there are a lot of different monitors and a lot of different 12 video resolutions out there you can show the ebook in full screen and even force the full screen if force is selected the ebook window can not be resized by the end user You can hide the menu the toolbars and also the top bar Additionally for the GOLD edition only you can force the page title to be shown on the title bar at the first run you can force the program to ask the end user his her name email if she he agrees this data can be sent to you through email or through a web script this way you can track your end users create new sletters et
33. File gt Import GENERIC QUESTIONS I can t find the answer to my question No problem just write to us As you see we respond to all Or use the user s forum www ebookswriter com forum I can t delete some objects with DEL Use DEL twice The XYZ dialog window displays too small for me Please resize the window EBooks Writer stores and remembers window settings I m writing a manual for an application and I need to include multiple copies of the applica tion logo and application name Is there a quick way Create a new page insert the name and the logo of the application Then you can use Edit gt Paste page from to insert the logo anywhere you want I can t use tabs You can use the reduce indent and increase indent buttons The copy and paste procedure sometimes di scards the text format This can happen for short text as EBooks Writer tries to use intelligent behavior when you cut amp paste Sometimes the behavior is not exactly as you might expect How can I make floating windows When a user browses your site hypertext there are two ways a window can show when user clicks on a special link Insert gt Special link When user enters a page that contains an open window component Insert gt Page functions gt Open close windows See samples in gt Examples In a hypertext with lots of images it seems as though there are problems with previews Use Tools
34. INT EXPIRY Can I protect my pages with a password Can I leave some pages without a password so the user can see a sample before buying Yes sure Can I protect my ebook with passwords Can the clipboard copy be disabled Can printing be disabled Can I set an expiry date Can I force 69 the ebook to be shown full screen Yes Is the protection strong Yes itis a 128 bit strong encryption My target is big business with lots of employees and I don t know how to protect my book from sharing Now lets assume that in one office there are 10 employees and that 5 of them want to buy my book How do I make sure that if I give the password to one of them he or she will not share the password with the others The passwords for the ebooks created with EBooks Writer can be personalized for each user without any effort The first time someone reads your ebook they will be prompted to enter a name and email address In EBooks Writer there is a dialog where you can insert that user name and email address and you will get a personali zed password that you can send to the user The password will work for this user only This feature can be enabled or disabled it s your choice You may also add an additional protec tion with www ebookswriter com virtualvault I ve tried the sample with different passwords for different users but the user password doe sn t work and also the author password mickey doesn t work When usi
35. Robot Vittorio SIMA A new science fiction daily electronic newspaper is born from the editors of Delos Science Fiction monthly magazine It s a new consultation tool on the Internet fully dedicated to the science fiction genre It is called CORRIERE DELLA FANTASCIENZA and it s available almost every day with the latest news about the SF world You may find updated i 22 59 Document Done a 4 1 6 1997 Nasce il Corriere della Fantascienza Q Nasce la versione giornaliera della vostra rivista mensile Delos Science Fiction Si tratta un nuovo strumento di consultazione in Internet dedicato alla science fiction che si intitola CORRIERE DELLA FANTASCIENZA Vuole essere un giornale con cadenza quasi quotidiana che punta diritto all informazione Se visitate questa pagina di volta in volta troverete le notizie pi recenti da tutto il mondo Notizie che spaziano dal mondo del cinema a quello dei libri dalla multimedialit al piccolo schermo Al CORRIERE DELLA FANTASCIENZA collabora con la rubrica satirica quotidiana Le frasi Celebri l ex direttore di Robot Vittorio Curtoni SIA A new science fiction daily electronic newspaper is born from the editors of Delos Science Fiction monthly magazine It s a new consultation tool on the Internet fully dedicated to the science fiction genre It is called CORRIERE DELLA FANTASCIENZA and it s available almost every day wi
36. This page will show in many examples alone or j i F in a frame set different link types Available pages 0 This page will show in many examples This E A window controls what to show in main window page will show in many examples See frame rowser instance examples to learn how to insert frames losing windows PI estination page replaces caller frame Special links Home Example of link with anchor Frame set 1 2 3 this E Here we can select the page on the right lu Ok Cancel Ok but don t jump now opion Aro tal IO esas 1 40 Fig 106 7 More D Special links Lou p Link kind available link types choose a tab Independent window or Popup and properties eh EME x G Catt Independent window or popup when you ll click the inserted link Target window frame shows as single O frameset press OK to select destination page Target page shows 0 n N Left zi in an independent window Include A Top p J O in a popup 40 Name Show hal af Molde t l address bar full screen na C resizable buttons toolbar dependent Screen X 0 Include with scroll bar menu status bar Screeny 0 zi choose the frame where the destination page will be shown Please note that you can also manually insert the destination frame name frames can be named using Format gt Advanced frameset manage
37. a americano e della televisione Pi recentemente stata xl 2 z aia Document Done Clickable maps hot spots and browsing bars An interesting way to link different pa ges is to create special images that contain some intelligent areas which when clicked will generate the loading of the linked page In Fig 154 we show a sophi sticated example but we could simplify this by making a bare horizontal bar We can insert a clickable zone hot spot by positioning the cursor over the chosen area and right clicking with the 56 mouse Add area hot spot A small rectangle appears with four white corners We can then move the rectangle and resize it by dragging the white corners in order to define the intelligent clickable zone By right clicking on the newly created hot spot we could go on to define a link It is important to take into consideration that some users may not be able to take advantage of the graphic links To provide them with the opportunity of browsing our pages it would be advisable to replicate Fig 139 Let s insert Golem the images and let s create a table with two coloumns without borders 13 18 08 97 Fig 140 then let s write you will see the dotted lines just in the editor they aren t shown in the published ebook Golem 13 18 08 97 i Ugo Pirro Dopo Hitchcock i Il cinema italiano sembra che invecchi senza accor
38. a colored table where you want to insert a text block see Fig 143 where we have used nested tables 55 Fig 135 A page with fixed tabes seen at different screen resolutions It is a Web site yes this is an old example and we are too lazy to change it The example is valid for an ebook as well Golem 13 18 08 97 N Dopo Hitchcock Ugo Pirro Il cinema italiano sembra che invecchi senza Golem 13 18 08 97 Dopo Hitchcock Il cinema italiano sembra che invece accorgersene costruendo alibi per o investe La spiegazione di queste cri sostanzialmente mai cambiata nel c colpevoli sono sempre e soltanto gli distributori e soprattutto liovadenajj 193 Document Done AN accorgersene costruendo alibi per ogni crisi che lo investe La spiegazione di queste crisi perenni non sostanzialmente mai cambiata nel corso degli anni i colpevoli sono sempre e soltanto gli esercenti i distributori e soprattutto l invadenza del cinema americano e della televisione Pi recentemente stata al Li H ae ey a dia 59 bocument Done Golem 13 18 08 97 Dopo Hitchcock Il cinema italiano sembra che invecchi senza accorgersene costruendo alibi per ogni crisi che lo investe La spiegazione di queste crisi perenni non sostanzialmente mai cambiata nel corso degli anni i colpevoli sono sempre e soltanto gli esercenti i distributori e soprattutto l invadenza del cinem
39. ady inserted WMF images can I convert them to GIF in some way or must I reinsert them Unfortunately you must reinsert I can t insert animated GIFs with Insert gt Animation Please use Insert gt Image Where can I find the included clip art In the Insert gt Images dialog From disk click on the icon with the mountain and the sun In a hypertext with lots of images it seems as though there are problems with previews Use Tools gt Program options to increase the image cache settings How can I insert pictures that will be enlarged in a separate window when you click on them Should I use the click area hot spots What can I do with a click area A click area is useful when you want to assign different destination links to different sections of a single image For example let s say you have a picture of yourself You can assign an area to the eyes an area to the mouth and so on A click on the eyes may display a page where you talk about your wonderful blue eyes and so on 0 If you want to create a gallery with some thumb nails linked to larger images in a separate win dow you don t need to use hot spots You can use the Insert gt Image gallery photo album Gold edition Or simply create a page contai ning a series of small images then insert a new page for each enlargement and assign links to each small image right mouse button Define special links Inside the special
40. age settings background Password Cart Reader Show options lp er l x a Fig 97 Using this VE GE dialog we can Sides easily set up a Came page Preview page or sl ide What is Ebookswriter Slides starting from current page sequence Name Time 01 What is EbooksWiiter 5 02 What is EbooksWiiter for 5 l Add slides 3 zi show for 5 si s AN 0 1 Add selected page ANAB Til page aj 2 000014 r zi 000015 tree list besides the text the exe format can program will automatically create a hyper show it on the left side of the video if you textual index containing all links to the enable this within the show options addi ebook s pages you can choose whether to tionally this can be utilized by the final order pages alphabetically or by page num user to get a sequential print of the ebook ber or even by following the tree By choosing Insert Contents the structure s predefined order 52 10 Graphics and paging pages B the powerful features offe red by EBW to create well built pages we would like to provide some useful sug gestions about creating and paging ebooks although this is really not the aim of this manual Creating a good ebook is not merely dependent on the richness of graphics or special effects nor an on paper paging experience Even if the usual
41. ages and text You must remember that the final users screen and window sizes are unknown In the Chapter Graphics and paging pages of this manual you find some useful suggestions on how to create this kind of positioning I have worked with several ebooks in the past although I do not have any of them now My question is related to the size I have created most of these pages and you have to scroll them I do not want that In the past with other ebook programs it automatically saved to open in the current screen and there was no scrolling nee ded What do I have to do to make this work Exe ebook tends to have a web like layout be cause the vertical scrolling is quite handy on a 74 PC so you should divide your pages into diffe rent small pages if you want small pages If you save as Epub or Mobi the readers for these formats do automatically divide in small pages because some readers such as the Kindle are designed with prev next buttons instead of scrol ling PURCHASE REGISTRATION How to purchase Go to www ebookswriter com buy I created some pages with the LITE version can I use the project with the registered edition without having to redo it all Yes sure For any additional question email the support staff ebookswriter visualvision com Or see the forum with the powerful SEARCH BOX www ebookswriter com forum
42. an distribute infinite copies of the ebook as the ebook knows all the passwords even the ones that you have not generated yet This is because it does not actually verify the password it verifies the match You can have infinite users there will be infinite passwords When you sell an ebook to a given user you open the ebook source file you use Hypertext gt Passwords you enter the user data and the password s is calculated on the fly and can be printed faxed emailed to the user Example say we have the document abc aeh with the author password mickey associated to all the pages say this ebook is enabled to personal passwords for each user custom password for each user is checked say you are the end user peter sellers peter pink com The author will give you the password kP_VUp see Fig 25 this will enable you to see the ebook In other words for this ebook the password for peter is kP_VUp and will always be asked the first time he enters one of the protected pages It will work ONLY if peter enters the data peter sellers pe Fig 27 The automatic password draft message facility 20 ter pink com when the ebook asks for them to enter these data the end user may also click the right mouse button and choose User data from the menu For the same file for the end user john smith john smith com the password will be as in Fig 26 bXaRQs You will supply the same ebook to John a
43. articular If you click on these links you can obtain one of behavior listed Other e Cart int current frame int frame D Show Shopping cart tight gt Select end user owns EBooksWriter Be sure you record this password if you lose it you will be unable to edit your own work there is no way to recover it But now let s see the sophisticated password protection feature that does per mit you to protect your ebook with one or more password that you will supply to your end users With Hypertext Password the window in Fig 24 will be shown The simplest thing is to assign one password for the entire ebook But you can do more For example you can create an ebook with ten free introductory pages and protect the rest of the document with a password Or you can protect different sections of the ebook with different passwords Or you can have the program to automatically assign a per sonal password or passwords for each different user while the ebook remains the same for everybody When you have just created a new pre sentation the simplest thing you can do is add a single password to the whole docu ment If you want to do this just click the Add password button enter the pas sword e g mickey see Fig 24 then the program will ask you if you want to assign it to all pages Say Yes and you are done All your users will be able to read the ebook by just entering the passw
44. as been designed for the paper An AEH file contains a whole ebook so your work becomes easy to share If you password protect the AEH it can be seen only with EBooks Writer or EBooksReader AEH means Advanced En capsulated Hypertext Can I insert Java Applets JavaScripts Flash within a page Can I use ASP No Why does the size of the AEH remain the same even if I delete some multimedia files It is not sufficient to delete a link a button or a video with the CANC that deletes the button EBooks Writer archives each thing you use in an internal archive or album If you delete the link the file remains inside the album to enable fast reuse If you want to delete the file please choose Hypertext gt Images files link archive and erase search the file then delete it with DEL Can I save in PDF format Indirectly you can If you have the Adobe pro duct installed choose File gt Print then print to the Acrobat Distiller There are many other utilities on the Web for example do a search on www soft14 com Otherwise you can install a fake PostScript printer an Apple LaserJet for example print to FILE instead of LPT1 save the file as filename ps then use the free Ghost script you can find it on simtel net to convert from PS to PDF A correct Ghostscript command on the DOS prompt is gswin32c q d dPDFSETTINGS printer dCompatibilityLevel 1 3 dNOPAUSE dBATCH sDEVICE pdfwrite sOut
45. b amp Ge E eu se be se bs page copied from selected in list 9 below Search template Models amp additional_ita aeh U CDROMs IPER classic18 aeh Lorem ipsum dolor sit additional_spa aeh CLASSIC2 AEH CLASSICI AEH CLASSIC3 AEH amet consectetuer classic10 aeh ESEMO AEH adipiscing elit sed diem classic 1 aeh ESEMI AEH tincidunt ut lacreet dolore classic12 aeh ESEMIDAEH magna aliguam erat classic14 aeh ESEM2 AEH volutpat Ut isis enim a classic15 aeh ESEM3 AEH minim veniam quis nostrud classic16 aeh ESEM5 AEH exerci tution ulla corper suscipit lobortis nisl ut lt gt lt gt right mouse button you can select Add area hot spot Hot spots can be moved and resized it s possible to define a link for each hot spot using the right mouse button the image menu or the toolbar Use DEL key to delete a hot spot Several properties are available for images you can access the editing window using the right mouse button or through the Image gt Properties menu item Figs 39 41 show the related windows with all con cerned tabs You can also apply transparency to your images and enlarge or reduce them It is also possible to use images that change when the mouse cursor passes over them This method uses two different ima ges that are shown depending on the cursor position see Fig 40 Of course these ima ges can link to a new page
46. c within the small dialog that prompts for name and email you can show a Ask pass button When the end user presses this button he she will auto matically prepare an email with the user data then the end user may send the email to you Placing links is mandatory As said in Chapter 1 the end user can not see use the page number facility that you see on the bottom of the EBW applica tion window which is provided just as a quick means to switch between pages du ring development so you actually have to place some links or your users will be stuck in the cover page and won t be able to see the other pages With links you can control the reading path and say you can move the user from page 0 to 45 and then to 3 and to 2 and wherever you want It is not necessary to adopt the structure of a regular printed book You can provide multiple paths The important thing is before attemp ting to create a selfinstalling ebook to be sure to put some links starting from the cover page the one shown with Hypertext gt Cover menu it is the first page shown to your readers Embedded files The ebook can carry on and show internal embedded files these files are stored within the ebook document You can create this kind of link with Insert gt Link 4th tab By default a click on an embedded file link does prompt a Save Execute dialog window a Web browser does always show t
47. can not get rid of it Simply copy another page inside it Alternati vely change the settings of the program so that the cover page and the summary page are not using the first page Hypertext gt Current Hyper text properties then second tab then click on the left on cover or summary and choose the required page I imported an rif document and set up some links to certain portions of it hypertext The links work fine but in the non edit preview mode I can only get to the linked pages not the ones without links This is normal as the preview mode is designed to work as if published and no pages would be 72 available in a live situation unless linked Well on epub mobi ebooks you can also see the non linked pages because these formats do follow the Predefined page order Hypertext menu to define the read path We have user manuals which were created using another program If we choose to use your software will we be able to maintain edit revise the old manuals in it or will they have to be recreated If your other program is able to save in RTF HTML or ASCII formats or at least allows copying to the clipboard you will be able to import the data to our software possibly some reformatting will be required Can your program import Word Perfect format WPF files No but within Word Perfect you can choose Save as then save your file in RTF format that can be imported by EBooksWriter with
48. ch as Paint Shop PRO in order to compress the images for photos the best format is JPG For line art cartoons etc the best one is GIF Once I set up my E Book on the Web can a person print the entire 50 pages at once with one click or do they need to print each page one at a time Yes they can use File gt Print all It prints the ebook in the order you defined with Hypertext gt Predefined page order TOC When you self extract the book it shows a little brown book with an E on it Is there a way to change what that looks like say if they place it on their desktop Does it always have to look like little brown book or can I change that icon to something different At present you cant change that programmatically This is the program icon and in MSWindows a file shows the icon of the pertaining program The user can change the icon as usual in MSWindows Can ebook CD s be started using autorun See http www cdfrontend com for autorun CDFrontEnd can use EBooksWriter files and can create autorun CDs with them with the same protections provided by EBooksWriter Just recently I have written a small eBook I m using the full screen setting and would like to have a link on each page for closing the ebook but I can t locate the information about how to do this Should I reset the eBook to be viewed in a window rather than full screen to be able to have closing controls Close is available using the right mouse bu
49. communica tion and marketing rules are adopted as for commercial publications the ebook is a media apart from all traditional ones In this chapter we give some tips for making an effective ebook even without super graphics and expensive software Displaying information on the screen Displaying information on the screen is very different from presenting it on paper In traditional publishing the page maker just needs to choose the page s size and can then begin adding text and pictures Using the same methods for on screen paging may well result in ineffective di splays since the dimensions are dependent on the video resolution set by the user not by the author of the page Typical screen resolutions can vary between 640x480 and 1600x1280 pixels on different monitors going from 10 inch to 21 inch screens So how can we cater for everyone s require ments There are different solutions By consi dering the fact that a minimal resolution of 640x480 is available to everyone we could set such values as typical during the design of pages Actually this is the choice adopted for many professional works on CD Nevertheless this solution may be considered very limited by the user who would like to take advantage of a more powerful video card leaving our work ap pearing to be of a low quality Another simple solution may consist of preparing the work as if it were a book or paper magazine For example we can de 53
50. d for each user we call this reader pass word while the unique password or pass word seed is the author password you just have to put a check mark on custom password for each user then save the file Save ebook then create the SFX ebook and keep the source file AEH you used for creating the ebook in a safe place Hypertext options Fig 26 _ For the Information Page settings background Password Cart Reader Show options same ebook the Global password Aeh Exe The password on the left mickey applies to these password for the E pages double click for the page preview fenice user john smith IS Author Pass Reader pass Title Size File name page a mickey 1 BKaROs E The Wizard of Oz 44 0 E The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 704 1 E Copyright Information 1486 3 E Introduction 1359 4 E Table of Contents 7555 30 V E Chapter 1 The Cyclone 6408 33 v E Chapter 2 The Council with th 11602 34 Y E Chanter 3 How Dorothy Saved 11227 97 i A le Generate ERP file a x v custom password for each user Mass generator First name Family name Email Apply mickey to all pages john smith john smith com gt 19 When this option is selected the ebook remains the same for all users just like when there is just one password it is the match username email and password s that changes You c
51. d user For Opf Mobi Epub it is not always mandatory to define links within the text to create a reading path for Aeh Exe it is mandatory as we said before In fact most Mobi and Epub readers will show the ebook pages in a linear order However please notice that this order will not be the internal EBooksWriter s page number the internal page number is for the author only you The order for the reader end user can be either the order specified in the first tab of this Export dialog see above or it can be the order specified in the Hypertext gt TOC Predefined Page Or der the TOC button shows this dialog This versatility permits you to reorga nize your work document anytime and to define for the reader any path without limits If you check the TOC gt ncx box most Epub readers will be able to show the TOC tree besides the ebook content The Mobi readers we have tested will not but maybe in future who knows this world evolves very fast The other parameters on the top right are for the fine tuning Due to their con straints the Opf Mobi and Epub formats do not support some of the EBooksWriter s features only the AEH EXE supports all the features and any formats has some limits For example some devices do not support added Javascript Html CSS mul timedia or Flash so you can disable this content this way you won t have to delete the content from the source Aeh file For strip
52. e Author Pass Reader pass Title Size Filename page mickey 1 KP_VUp E The Wizard of Oz 44 0 fly password E The Wonderful WizardoFOz 704 1 calculator You can E Copyright Information 1486 3 E Introduction 1359 4 see that the E Table of Contents 7555 30 password E Chapter 1 The Cyclone 6408 33 Iculated f t V E Chapter 2 The Council with th 11602 34 3 calculated tor peter ZI E Chapter 3 How Dorothy Saved 11227 se sellers is i gt Generate ERP file kP_VUp custom password for each user Mass generator s gt First name Family name Email Apply mickey to all pages peter sellers peter pink com gt The ebook prompts for the password the first time you attempt to enter a password protected page usually it is wise to not protect the cover page select the password mickey on the left then just search for the cover page on the right list and uncheck it this way if the user forgets about the password well at least he she will be able to know what ebook she he is holding If you wish to apply the password mickey just to a page set select the password in the left box then check in the right section every page you want to pro tect with this password To leave a page unprotected just click the See pages without pass and check every page you want to leave unprotected Different password s for each reader user If you wish to set a different passwor
53. e form You can insert the edit box with Insert gt Forms gt Form element If there is not any form start marker the program will prompt for it The form start marker is required to tell to the browser where the form starts and what s its behavior In other words the form marker s properties determine what happens when the form is submitted If you don t want to edit marker s properties immediately simply press OK you can edit them anytime by using the right mouse button Then in the window shown select which form element to insert The simplest one is in the example below Insert your name A overview buy get it now questions FAQ tutorials PDF online visual manual home To insert a button use Insert gt Forms Buttons SEmeomoO 23 aber sie SN ka 30 HY modified P modified Text Simple form 277 346 Frame BottomFr Fig 72 A Form DL Form start marker properties start marker Properties kiuj contains Choose the action for the marker you can insert more than one marker per page this is needed if J you want to insert more than one form on same page If you have only a form even with more form information such as elements you need one form start marker only form buttons will send data from marker to page end where to send the form content once a submit button is clicked Program path and name on server ENCTYPE i Cancel EE Send by e
54. e just created two frames File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools Help i QO 2 p H a DU liper 0 iv by simply dragging 1 e ee I the left bar across 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 30 100 no Beo Mala Peal MA Fanali tini tn Pi A Ra la to the right and are currently entering text in the right frame Table of contents page A page B Page Al EEmoMmMo 3 roaBo ro He 39 Ba 0 6 HY modified P modified Text Untitled 155 0 0 Frame Frame28b328 as we did before Fig 51 Now click in the left frame then using your right mouse button click and select Choose page in frame the window in Fig 52 will open In the box Page in frame we will select Choose existing one the window will change as in Fig 53 allowing us to insert the Index page into the frame In this way the Index page will be shared by the two frame set Please note that by changing the value of the Size box we can set the same size for both Page A and Page B left frame for example 25 Links All we have to do now is to insert links Fig 51 Recreating the same frames layout in a new page of the hypertext Fig 52 Let s fill the left frame with the same page as used in the previous frame set 32 Duntitled eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION LOG File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools He
55. e online guide Help gt Help file specialLinksEBW aeh you may find it with the MSWindows Start gt Find feature you will find live examples that can be opened in the editor There are lots of tricks to enable full use of these resources Trick to show two windows with a click use Insert gt Special link to place a link to popup Inside the popup use Insert gt Page functions gt Open Close windows to show the second window use a different name for the window 41 Fig 107 A simple File Edit Search IEEE na Hypertext Tools 2 Help rioze 6014 BUB LOA p Arial vl sick vio laal B 7 ge Aaa Link that This page will be replaced by page B if you click here replaces caller The B page replaces this page in this frame page If you want to insert in your hypertext some links as above use On the near page a Insert gt Special link then the Normal tab tabs are located on the special link sample with bottom of dialog window then in current window replaces caller page a click on the link the To see this in iPer you the editor must be in read only Hypertext page A is replaced by gt Read only another one Special links Home HEmeomo a r3589 sla aa 30 Text Link that replaces caller page 13 40 Frame Left Fig 108 You can visually select the z link destination eae bab
56. ected image properties Low res mouse rollover Replace image in whole hypertext Replace image with sl stretch properties including a background image or color Alternatively you may manually create thumbnails with a graphic program then you can link them to popup dialogs with Special links see Chapter 6 Tables Tables are not merely a way to put numbers and letters into columns In video publishing tables with transparent borders are the best way to position objects on the screen Other programs designed for the paper book allow absolute positioning on the screen but this feature has to be avoided or viewing pages becomes stron gly dependent on the user s PC video reso lution Users viewing your ebook with a lower higher screen resolution would not see the ebook as you had intended l New tabl x Fig 43 This ct x window allows you Rows 2l colo E to define and insert Co O image amp LI border tables Simple E ras Tab Tab Alternate color rows Test1 Test2 Test3 Altemate columns Tab Tab Tab Benes coe COLE Test1 Test2 Test3 Last column Tab Tab Tab First row and column Testi Test2 Test3 First row and last column Last row and column Last row and first column List You can do further changes in editor n GUntitied eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION Fig 44 cui Once a File Edit Search Inse
57. ents you need one form start marker only form buttons will send data from marker to page end msg Start a program with Post method org Start a program with Get method E Jump to page Save to file J gt With this kind of form when you press a button you will jump to page defined in the button Is a way to set a page jump 45 Fig 76 Here we Sean ppi hg Button properties Advanced Html select a page to show when the Fe chor S user clicks the Q aee submit button What is EbooksWriter 4 next gt EbooksWriter is the most advanced yet easy to use visual tools for managing Ebooks You can create an ebook with one click with File gt Save SFX exe ebook or File gt Save mobi epub ebook Kindle Palm Mac iPhone Cell EbooksWriter s intuitive easy start environment requires no more technical skills than a common word processor yet offers so much more Styles framesets hot spot images mouse over sensible images colored tables popup windows and many other powerful features The link browsing and management is very fast thanks to the innovative WYSIWYL visual interface You work with a wl GI i a Cancel Fia 77 indexE aeh example eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION 19 T File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools Help Demonstrating Q A
58. er one as a J floating frame use Insert gt Floating Frame This is an example Iv se Emmas f 32389 _ zl 9 a 2 68 HY modified Text Floating frame 8 11 Pag8 FramesEBW aeh example eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION LON File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools Help QO 2 gt lal la fe ke DI OQ liper UACDROMSNPERSPROSEnGNCLIENTAFRES A Arial x tm scust 15 sf aall 7 gel Se Pa E PE Pa E a Pa RT IPO IM LIO LIN o Page in floating frame This page must be created separately To insert this page in another one as a floating frame use Insert gt Floating Frame This is an example Frames and frame sets home SEmomMO a kraDBo s dis aBa 0 0 HY modified Text Page in floating frame 9 11 Pag3 frame A dialog window will display as tables see the Chapter Graphics and pa shown in Fig 63 and you have the option to ging pages for learning more details about include any hypertext page within the this positioning technique that is usually frame A floating frame can be positioned not used when producing documents for the everywhere just like an image Like ima paper and instead is fundamental for pa ges the correct way to position a floating ging documents for the video frame somewhere is by using invisible 36 6 The special links he simplest links available in EBooks Writer are the normal links As seen in Chapter 1 you can insert them by
59. er so long as the primary user of each copy is the same person and more than one copy is not simultaneously copy the Ebook for archival purposes provided any copy must contain all of the original Software s proprietary notices p WARNING to create the EXE you may need to be logged in as administrator and to lower security settings 11 Hypertext options Fig 15 Here you can choose to show your Reader Window presentation in full Tm en in full screen screen nter use X Y position don t store password s At the first run show Ask pass button Custom expiry message Cer Information Page settings background Password Cart ask user name email and send through script Reader Show options force full screen show TOC no main menu open with this X and Y size 400 400 X and position 0 zi 0 no toolbars no top bar on top bar show page title only Label privacy etc ask user name email and send through SMTP Outgoing SMTP server name e g mail yourlsp com Your email address e g pourmail yourlsp com you use the menu function File Save SFX exe ebook SFX self installing there is no compiling or other intermediate steps required The program will show a window where you can insert a license message for the ebook
60. erting links Linking pages is really very simple let s make a simple example now by crea ting a hypertext ebook consisting of two pages each linked to the other Let s run EBooks Writer the window in Fig 1 will appear ready for you to type some text into the page We enter a line or two of text about vegetables and we in clude the word potatoes The number 0 shown in the central text box at the bottom of the current page indicates that we are on page 0 Please notice that the page numbering in this box is just for your own use for the end user you can set any reading path also non linear with links and with the Hypertext gt Predefined page order TOC feature Now we can select a word which is done in the same way as in many other applications simply drag your mouse over the word or double click it let s select potatoes See Fig 2 and now click the Link button on your toolbar the one with the chain and a page on as shown ma here The window in Fig 3 will display this is one of the most important dialog win dows because it allows us to define many link types by simply choosing one of the tabs on the top But let s get on Choose the New Fig 1 Untitled eBooks Writer GOLD VISUAL VISION LON EB o ok sWrit erm ain File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools Help window to write G0 4 gt lal SB SO pove vliceeala something just A
61. es to think about the horizontal size not as fixed but as varia ble because the ebook page layout must look good also for small screens Secondly within ebooks there are hypertextual links between pages i e words or pictures you can click on to be taken to other sections or to show external documents EBooksWriter s original interface has been specifically designed and optimized for this With the default settings pages are reflowable so the end user will see in formation on the screen in a pratical way without having to repeatedly zoom pan on the page no matter what device what monitor is used for reading the ebook With its special WYSIWYL What You See Is What You Link all links between pages can be defined visually you don t have to type codes or remem ber file names you select from a preview and can navigate within that preview so you can search reach the required destina tion page by either page title or navigation and they are immediately active ena bling you to follow them from within the editor you don t have to move to preview mode just double click This is really much easier to use than to explain and it adds unbelievable speed And there is more under the hood The simple yet powerful built in editor provides you with the opportunity to use text styles hot spots audio and video frame sets slides popup windows and much more easily It is all v
62. fine link 3rd tab Add button then enter mailto youraddress aol com Can I insert forms in EbooksWriter Yes in Ebooks Writer GOLD You may also link to a page that contains a form in your Web site I can t get the spell check working There are solutions within the user s forum In a hypertext with lots of images it seems as though there are problems with previews Use Tools gt Program options to increase the image cache settings The program says Access Violation XXXX then hangs The error numbers like 00231245E are no use to us at all If this happens and you are able to provide us with step by step instructions on how to reproduce the error e g open the program write mickey press save and the error ALWAYS happens we can correct the problem Often it is not a problem with the program but a problem of limited handles within MSWindows IfI switch to read only Edit Preview button the slides don t appear to work You have to use Hypertext gt reload page to start the slide sequence To obtain this at load time configure the hypertext as Read only 73 using Hypertext gt Options I have noticed that in some of my work when I resize the windows larger or smaller some tables or images move and don t retain their position Is there a solution to this problem You would benefit from practising with the invisible tables and learn how to use them to correctly position im
63. gersene cosfruendo alibi per ogni crisi che lo investe La spiegazione i di queste crisi perenni non sostanzialmente mai cambiata i inel corso degli anni i colpevoli sono sempre e soltanto gli i i esercenti i distributori e soprattutto l invadenza del cinema i americano e della televisione Pi recentemente stata i i indicata fra le cause dello scarso interesse del pubblico per i 1 Lila ikaj stot 4 A i i zl the links elsewhere on the page in a simple text format even if only in small sized characters at the foot of the page Accompanying the program you are provided with many different examples of button bars and clickable maps Using the same bars throughout the same ebook will improve uniformity and will contribute to the overall style of your work Taking all of these points into conside ration we should say that designing button bars or maps is not as easy as it could at rst seem If you are not experienced with graphics software it may take some time before you obtain a satisfying result Ne vertheless don t give up but try to get some help from an experienced friend or from a specialized video graphics publica tion Frames Frames are a very useful feature espe cially while designing complex ebooks Frames allow us to split pages into more sections A very common implementation consists of using an index or box contai ning a selection list on the left side of each page Using frame
64. get page shows area choose in current window and click OK You will then select both a destination page and an anchor see Fig 105 Showing windows From the special link dialog choosing the third tab allows you to show the desti nation page within a separate window You must define a name for the new window see Fig 106 this name can be used later Fig 101 The special link window Fig 102 Here you can select the destination anchor Fig 103 Properties of the link just inserted special links LOG Link kind choose a tab A a Anchor here you can insert a link to an anchor in current page E Es e LL Cart press OK for visual edit DLink to E L Choose the destination anchor buon grado i bocconi migliori che si sono procurati esl In realta probabilmente la gran parte delle scimmie si nutre di bacche e di altri componenti propri di una dieta esclusivamente vegetariana La nostra enciclopedica cultura non vuole abbassarsi a fornire elementi su questa interessante teoria ma questo non interessa poi molto alla nostra storia se poi non avete mai visto scimmie carnivore questo certo non vuol dire che non esistano The end This is the end of the example To see this example in EBooksWriter make sure the editor is in read oni Hypertext gt Read only 4 If you are not in read only you
65. gt Program options to increase the image cache settings I can t minimize the application Select Tools gt Program options then Reset dialogs settings then exit from the application I have a problem with the program locking up It seems to be related to the file Iam working in because I had a few other files I was working with and I am not having the problem there If the file is corrupted in some way is there anything I can do about saving some of the pages Help I don t want to start over When a file is corrupted the most practical way is to open a new file and copy the pages the non corrupted ones from the old file using Edit gt Paste page from I have EBooksWriter What is the difference with iPer Hyper Publish PRO HP HyperPublish can create and publish Web sites and autoinstall CD DVDs EBooksWriter can read HP files HP can read non protected EBW files There is a very affordable bundle offer on the web if you want both products Do you have a Mac or Linux edition No but EBooksWriter is fast so it will run on any common PC emulator software there are many both for Mac and Linux The epub and mobi ebooks can be read in any case on Mac Linux Palm Kindle Sony Reader handheld PCs cell phones and a lot of other systems I have an icon for email I ve checked the tutorial and can t find out how to make this work Very simple select the image right mouse but ton on it de
66. h Hypertext gt Keywords In the win dow shown click the Add global key button the yellow key with the green Then use the drag drop or the other but ton to add a given global key to the selec ted page You can add up to 20 keywords to each page This will work for aeh and exe ebooks Additionally there is full text search en gine With Special Links see Chapter 6 you can prompt users to press Search to start a search or you can even place a link or an image button that shows the search win dow when clicked Predefined page order table of contents EBW allows you to create a tree struc tured table of contents for organizing your ebook Actually for mobi and epub ebooks you must define this structure at least a basical linear list of pages while for exe aeh it is optional The menu is Hypertext gt Predefined page order TOC For mobi epub and opf oeb idpf formats such a structure will be utilized to allow the end user to browse the ebook in a linear order e g when the user presses the previous and next keys on a Kindle and some readers can show this Hypertext options Fig 94 Global header and footer for the ebook Use this page as global header Use this page as global footer Cover page Multimedia Summary page Multimedia Information Page settings background Password Cart Reader Show options browse m a Margins
67. h later DLink to Fig 31 Here you can define a link to a page in another hypertext The choose a tab simplest ones are below when both Search hypertext hypertexts are in SAMPLES the same directory shoppingcart_simple aeh di Search for page by title Available pages amp 66 Bs hypertext and page selected in list T AAEHiPertesti shoppingcart_simple_eng aeh shoppingcart_simple_ita aeh E Invisible table useful to position text and images ue Ge ee se E Automatic link mantains relative path works also in In eau iper SAMPLES TABL Invisible table useful to pos text and imac In this example we to put side by side an and a text The following text sense Lorem ipsum dolor consectetuer adipiscii sed diem tincidunt ut Y 24 Fig 32 Here you DLink to can insert a link to choose a tab an Emall or amp Ga Ga GE sec oe ee SE BG Internet address new address press the button to add fou can use this page to insert links to existing URL this Is address to notepad or address alredy in the Internet pages or to Html files external to current accessed using notepad hypertext Kind Insert gt Link GS address Run prog For run prog save please search the manual O E mail address O Run run OFTP address O Save as save Add amp http www
68. he destination page as in Fig 76 Fig 73 This window displays all of the available form elements Fig 74 A slightly more complex form Fig 75 An alternative form start marker demonstrating how page jumps are used with forms Properties Html choose a tab a a eu a je Identifier for script cail identifier Box width 20 C Show initial value initial value File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools Help GgO 2 Pki I BU QI iper U CDROMs IPERSPRO Eng CLIENT F ES_A Avia v Mm Black v 10 ea B 7 2 ES A PO E A E e TE i pete ni iene fi Aste nappa pie pos osp tesse pra LELII Form that sends data by e mail In this form if you press the Ok button all data will go to walt disney com Insert your name Yau like i Rockerduck a Amelia Scroodge McDuck wl You don t like Remarks You want to live in Ducktown Mickeytown ou read Mickey Mouse p Donald Duck Paperinik Emomo a k 2B de HY modified P modified Text Form that sends data by e mail 276 346 Pag278 Properties Html Choose the action for the marker you can insert more than one marker per page this is needed if you want to insert more than one form on same page If you have only a form even with more form elem
69. his dialog there is a checkbox if you don t want to bother users with this dialog as your ebook will run as a sepa rate process it does not rely on Internet Explorer or any other Web browser so its behavior can be different The selected file will be inserted in the internal album so Hypertext gt Images files link archive and erase is the only way to remove the file from the album and so from the AEH file ebook file MOBI and EPUB ebooks In alternative or in addition to the EXE and AEH formats you can quickly save your ebook also as IDPF OPF OEB Open Packaging Format OPS Open Pu blication Structure OEB OEBPS stan dard and Mobipocket MOBI and Adobe digital editions EPUB Macintosh Palm Pocket PC Windows Mobile CE Sym bianOS iLiad eBookMan Kindle Black berry iPhone Mac OS X Sony Reader Handheld PC Hanlin Bookeen Cybook Mentor Irex Lbook Neolux Nuut Astak EZ Reader BeBook COOL ER and seve ral new cell phones and devices every day Or SO Export x Fig 16 The export dialog where you Choose format Epub IDPF ebook publication structure one file only w Cancel RTF Word Word Perfect Publisher one file only choose the export Pages to export Path RTF Word Word Perfect Publisher a file per page ASCII Notes format OPF and EKA me poza ebosk publicat
70. ii frame and the m e m a amp ca linked page In frame or window when you ll click the inserted link oan shows as D Link target page O frameset Page B Target page shows in selected frame or in frame named here Frame window name Main EB gt Select Fig 109 Show close windows O ze TE Show window DI Dpen change window X Close window e pm oo D Page that will show in window frame OO replace frame with same name Left single as frameset Top Name Show Width je C address bar C ful screen Height O resizable FI buttons toolbar DI dependent Screen X C with scroll bar C menu C status bar Screen Y 42 7 The forms orms allow the users of your ebook to send you data by the Internet if they have an Internet connection The data are usually sent to a program called a script or CGI function that runs on the WWW server computer or by email Forms are available in EBooks Writer GOLD only Your host may include in your hosting account a pre installed set of form script programs there are many Web sites where you can find programs such as these for free or for a nominal fee You can also set up the form so that the data is sent to an e mail address this is the most common way if you don t have direct access to the server A form typically consists in one or more edit boxes and buttons Each edit box has its own identifier e g Name or
71. ika the potatoes page raj is already active M Sick v 14 laal MB 7 N I Pier Ph Baa ON Na KON ON E GN ON a lee kan I m b Vegetables 0 0 HY modified We could write a lot of things about vegetables Let s start with potatoes Or maybe not Let s start with Baamas e B o spa Text Vegetables 0 1 Pag0 on links and table grids will be hidden but more on that later It s now time to save your work Choose File gt Save ebook and the whole ebook will be archived into a single file with the AEH extension The process is the same whether 1 2 or 1000 pages 1 2 or 1000 images in this way EBW keeps your work compact and simplifies the tasks of making back ups and exchanging files Links and reading path The end user can not use see the page number facility which is provided just as 10 a quick means to switch between pages during development To define the path for the reader you have to place some links This is mandatory for exe and aeh ebooks while it is optional for opf mobi epub for these formats you must define a linear path with Hypertext gt Predefined page order TOC You have full control you can move the user from page 0 to 45 and then to 3 and to 2 It is not necessary to adopt the structure of a regular printed book and to have only one linear order Just be sure to put some links starting from the cover page Hypertext Co
72. ion sucias Epi wok publication structure one file only Mobi EPub or Title HTML Size File amp else and some J Test styles CSS 02 style css H v Search JS search iper htm useful options i 7 Shopping cart 7 Scripts JS oz js is V E Chapter 1 The Cyclone Page oz_000021 htm v E Chapter 10 The Guardian of the Gate Page oz 000037 htm v E Chapter 11 The Wonderful City of Oz Page oz_00003a htm vV B Chapter 12 The Search for the Wicked Witch Page oz_00003e htm V E Chapter 13 The Rescue Page oz_000042 htm 7 E Chapter 14 The Winged Monkeys Page 02_000044 htm v E Chapter 15 The Discovery of Oz the Terrible Page oz_000045 htm v i gt amp Export Plugin None Browse 13 Fig 17 Here you D Export Lot setup some options that are proper to the mobi and or epub format additionally as these formats have limitations you can choose what limits Choose format Unique id subject description publisher Pages to export Path Opf Mobi Epub use predefined page order TOC use order in first tab lt TOC TOC gt nex epub Ebook additional data saved within the AEH ebook Main data apply ISBN identifier Additional data metadata optional Epub IDPF ebook publication structure one file only w Cancel Options Mobi Ebook 4 strip added Html no internal Javascript strip size from CSS no Styles CSS multi
73. isual WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get that means what you see in editing mode is really what you get when you publish your ebook So you have what you need to create a good ebook and quickly And you have also what you need to protect your work if required Every page of an ebook can be protected with a password You can also define different passwords for different page sets and or leave some pages unpro tected e g sample pages Furthermore you can set different passwords for each user In addition to that the program al lows you to disable the copy and paste functions and to define an expiry date for the document Despite the completeness of the availa ble functions which may seem too much at first sight all has been designed around immediacy and speed for everyday work The editor is optimized to act on a whole ebook which is saved as a single file in AEH format the same format used by other Visual Vision products Pages are managed as a complete set rather than as stand alone pages This is very handy as you can archive a complex work in one single compact file with one click A single click is sufficient to perform a lot of other global multiple pages actions With a single click you do global searching and substitutions With a single click you can save your ebook as an exe file which can be read on any PC without the need for additional software i e you won t need Firefox or Internet Explorer
74. k is published For exe ebook you have to place links this is mandatory The other ways to manage pages are only active in the editor this simplifies the crea tion management of pages For epub mobi you can define a linear page order with Hypertext gt Predefined page order TOC Will your program allow me to create an index at the top of a page create a paragraph or graphics several lines down the page use the indexed item as a heading for the paragraph or graphics and link to it also add a return to top of page at the end of each paragraph You can insert any kind of links but usually you have to insert links manually You can use anchors for links within the page The program can create an automatic hyperlinked index with Insert gt Index To repeat a block on the top of a page use the Header function Format menu TABLES Does percent size mean the table will auto matically be sized to the content It means the table will fit the screen pixel width 63 using a When you insert a new table the software use 100 as the default Unless you have a particular requirement do not change this setting It will fit automatically any end user screen window I inserted an image in a table Why does it appear in all cells Perhaps you inserted the image as the table background If you want to insert an image as a single cell background use the right mouse button on the cell Properties
75. link dialog you can specify to use a popup to display the destination link the page containing the larger image and you can specify a name for the popup Is there a way to place icons of thumbnails on my page then click to view a larger image Yes you can use the Insert gt Image gallery photo album Gold edition Or just insert a little image you can do it with a paint program then insert a link right mouse button Define link to a page that contains the larger image If you use Define special link you can also show the larger image in a popup I designed a navigation bar in Paint Shop PRO how do I insert that into a page and add links to each button Insert gt Image then add hot spots clickable areas with the right mouse button then define links with right mouse button 65 I have an image and some text on one page I want the text to line up on the right of the image and I suppose using a frame will do it but I can t get my image into a frame Better to use a simple table rather than a frame Just use Insert gt Table then use a table with 2 columns 1 row if you want to create frames simply drag the top or left border of the edit window I imported a picture into my document Is there any way to add a border or is that something only available in the full version You can do this with a paint program We decided to not add border features as in any case most would not be suppo
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77. media flash custom Hypertext options 123456alless uid Language en Important pages guide optional m n pa copyright page Copyright Information e dedication choose ifi This story belonas to chil v There is no effort EBooksWriter can automatically save to these formats under the hood your ebook even the ebooks created with old versions of EBooks Writer is automatically converted no additional editing is needed From the main menu choose File gt Save mobi epub ebook Kindle Palm Mac iPhone Cell and the Export dia log will be shown Fig 16 First of all you choose the format from the drop down list at the top of the Export dialog Then you press the Export button and the export is done The OPF Mobi format will generate both the OPF file set a file Opf several Html and Gif and Jpeg files and the Mobi file The Epub format will generate a sin gle Epub file After the export the program will show you the folder where the output file s is are Before pressing the Export button you may want to choose the folder where it will put the exported file s use the Path tab Also there are several options to fine tune the ebook With the Ebook tab Fig 17 you can define some settings that are useful for both OPF MOBI and EPUB 14 The first option on the top left is about the page order the path of the reader en
78. nd led in the same way Slides Using Insert gt Page functions gt Slides you can instruct the program to replace the current page with a different one after N seconds The window shown is the one in Fig 96 This is the function used in Help gt Show presentation With Hypertext gt Slides you can use the more comprehensive window shown in Fig 97 where you can set up a whole slide sequence pages slides may be selected from the whole hypertext and you can simply change the sequence using drag amp drop Keywords The program permits you to create a global list of keywords for the whole ebook and you can assign some of these to each page In other words to assign a keyword to a page it has to be added to the global list first You can setup the global keyword list D Choose file Fig 81 Here you can insert a file sound or animation that will be embedded in the hypertext choose a tab Gu Search EB Video All files Cancel From disk From the intemal archive tun this file without asking for user confirmation 50 Fig 82 EBW D Choose file mantains an choose a tab internal album with Ga all sounds and animations used in the hypertext Search by title 2 cuckoo au RADIOGAG MID WINS5 AVI Cancel Intemal file archive From disk From the intemal archive lo lo wit
79. nd to Peter each with their own pas sword s The end user knows nothing and should not know about the author pas sword The program includes a facility to help you print email the password to the end user just insert the user data then press the button gt on the bottom right For john you will have what is in Fig 27 Please notice that when custom pas sword for each user is checked the author password is just a seed used for calcula ting the user s passwords It won t work for accessing the ebook For test purpose we do recommend you to test the ebook on a different PC This way you will avoid mistakes your PC will preset you as user and you should not change the preset If the user needs to reset clear his name email or the pas swords due to a mistake he she can use the right mouse button User data and Reset passwords or the menu Possible email to be sent to your customer You need to enter these login info First name john Last name smith Email john smith com Password 1 bXaROs We recommend that you cut and paste the passwords that is are cAsE SEnsiTiVE Should you experience any technical difficulties please feel free to contact us at When a page is password protected it is crippled with a strong 128 bit algorithm Your passwords are stored in a EWP file don t distribute and don t delete saved in the same directory of your
80. ng personal passwords the author password works within EBooks Writer only It doesn t work in EBooksReader To obtain the proper user password you must insert a user name and email address in the Hypertext gt Password dialog You must use the same user name and email address in EBooksReader that s why it is called personal it doesn t work with different personal data You might have to de lete the ERP file I am struggling to get to grips with the pas sword I am happy assigning an author pa sword but the reader password is beyond me Your examples do not explain what happens What does the reader have to do to get the 70 password and how does it relate to the pas sword window and boxes You can set a fixed password for all readers or a password that changes for each reader Each page can have a different password The online help gives you an example In the example the writer has added to the hypertext the password mickey That password is known by the writer only and will be changed to a different password for any reader You should not to give the pas sword mickey to the reader For the reader called aldo ghigliano that password is S ZTOg If you change the reader name you will have another password It is your responsi bility to give the correct password to each reader To disable that feature uncheck the box custom password for each user If this box is un checked when you save the ebo
81. nother way in EBooksW riter Insert gt New page then New page by copying existing one or New page by copying from another hypertext You can also use Edit gt Paste page from How can I manage headers and footers In short you can use any page as header or footer for any other page i e if you want a global header for the whole site create a page and insert within it all things you want in your header a logo a sentence etc choose Hypertext Current hypertext proper ties second tab and press the browse but ton near header In the window that will be shown choose the page you just created With Format Current page properties you can define a private header or no header for any page Do you have some step by step guidelines on how to create open and close popup windows To open a popup select a text block insert gt special link 3rd tab independent window or popup To close a popup in the page where the popup should be closed use insert gt page func tions gt open close windows then specify the name of the popup The popup is closed on entering the page You can open the aeh files used as examples speciallinks aeh I can only get to non linked pages when I am in the edit preview mode by using the page scroller the box at the bottom of the screen with the page number or CTRL Is this normal Will normal keyboard mouse paging work when this eboo
82. ntents 1 3 Frame Framedb1fec DUntitled eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION LOG Fig 55 Our first frame set clicking SR in the left menu will CO 4 display our I NN selected page in the right frame Table of contents page Al page B 28 File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools Help P ki He alko UI e Mm Stock v 19 laal B rg mofio a 36 HY modified P modified di iper 12 Page B zi 3 A a Text Table of contents 1 4 Frame Framedb1fec Selecting the text block page B and choosing Insert gt Link will display the window in Fig 5 allowing us to select Page B as the destination Now do the same for Page A When finished it should look like Fig 55 Clicking on Page A or Page B in the left frame should display the corre sponding page on the right Several ways are given to build a set of frames lke the one just demonstrated In the example just created the page chan ging is achieved by replacing both frames but since the frame on the left is the same only the one on the right appears to change to the user r amp Frame set propert Fig 56 A view cu ies A f t from the Advanced vanced frame management Load from template Copy from other page frame management Selected frame Ponies Save Resume last Select a frame or dragtdrop borders t
83. o create new x A Allow frame resizing window showing F Scroling 17 Border properties of the Border between frame 3 Ei current page here Tus you can also Rea i specify frame A borders disable Framedblfec Framefbd170 scrolling etc choose from rising ones master O new Search by title Lej E Page A E Untitled 161 E Table of contents E Untitled 162 mi Ed gt Table of contents z In fact it would be possible to only change the right frame keeping the one on the left unchanged This requires us to use special links as described in Chapter 6 Copying layout of existing frames Now we re going to see a simple way to copy and edit frame layouts The following method is available using Format gt Advanced frameset manager This will open the window in Fig 56 and is called from Page B The page layout is shown on the right Clicking on a frame the preview of the page contained in the frame itself will be displayed at the bottom of the dialog hel ping us when choosing the page to display in the frame On the left side the program shows all the parameters of the selected frame name and properties The tab Copy from other page is useful for replacing the current page layout we could have a frame set or simply a single page with the layout of another page of the hypertext As an example let s try to create page C identical to page A and B First let s crea
84. o put text in We can define the percentage for the two columns simply by right clicking within the two cells shown on screen second tab as shown in Fig 44 The result should look like the example in Fig 139 At this point we can insert the text and the page should then look like Fig 140 enlarging or nar rowing the window should not affect the page quality Please notice that you can insert a table within another table so you can create more sophisticated structures if needed Again we suggest you to try and try again as this is the best way to learn how to use the advanced features offered by EBW Backgrounds One of the greatest differences between video and paper publications is the use of backgrounds Printing backgrounds on a paper made publication is very expensive and someti mes may affect the readability and spoil the overall appearance This same treatment when applied to an ebook may well result in a visual enhancement In Fig 141 143 and 148 we can see some examples that demonstrate the use of backgrounds We can assign a background to a ta ble s cell through the usual window shown in Fig 44 It is however important not to over use this feature In general we di scourage the use of backgrounds that have too much contrast saturated colors or too much detail because these can affect text readability and take focus away from the subject matter If you really wish to use them we suggest that you put
85. oducing EBooksWriter booksWriter is a fast and easy to use tool for creating electronic books or in short ebooks Thanks to its multimedia and hyperme dia capabilities the program even adapts very well for creating manuals product catalogues guides brochures and in a more general way every kind of documen tation that can be considered the electronic version of a book So a book but with lots of additional features by the way No technical knowledge is required to use EBooksWriter more concisely EBW as EBW was conceived for normal people and everyday utilization You don t have to write codes or html and you don t need external software Of course you can reuse text you have written within MSWord or so but an external editor is not required Unlike some other ebook programs EBooksWriter is not a so called compiler but a feature rich stan dalone environment where you write edit page protect and pack the stuff as compact ebook It encompasses all you need to get from the page editor to the standalone ebook and it supports all the common standard ebook formats You just have to think about what you want to write yes at the present time this is still needed There are essentially two major diffe rences when comparing ebooks with ordi nary books documents written to be prin ted on the paper Firstly you actually print on the reader s screen rather than on paper this requir
86. of its win dows EBW treats pages that contain fra mes as a single page In particular the master page of the frame set will always be referred displayed The master page is the page shown when the frames but A ton is released You can use this button to switch between Frames and No frames mode This button has no effect on the page s structure it s just a display option for the editor In addition to showing the master frame of a frame set this button is useful to quickly test how your hypertext will be viewed with browsers that do not support frames such as palmtop tv box etc Let s make a simple example Start by creating a new hypertext with File gt New ebook and split the page 0 into two sections by dragging the notched bar on the left see Fig 50 If you do not see the notched bar on the left click the Show frames button You will notice that pres sing and releasing this button shows the master page the one on the right Now we want to build a structure where page A and page B can be selected from a list displayed in the left window e g a simple menu The selected page is di splayed in the right window without the left frame being affected or changed in any way To demonstrate this we re going to create a new page with File gt Add new page then drag out a frame using the bar 31 Untitled eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION LOG Fig 50 We v
87. ok the password mickey will be valid and identical for any reader The password mickey is assigned to the pages that are in the list on the right and are checked In a new hypertext to add a new password press the Add button then enter the password To assign that password to one or more pages check the box in the list on the right Is there a way to only let the users print certain pages If you want you can disable printing totally using Hypertext Current hypertext proper ties then with special links you can add print links buttons to certain pages only within a page that you wish to print just insert an image or a text such as Click here to print select it then use Insert Special link and the tab Other I was reading about all the security features that your eBook software offers but I did not see anything on how you prevent individuals from making mass copies and distributing the exe for free For example if a customer purcha ses an eBook from my site created with your software there is nothing technically that pre vents the individual from making multiple exe copies and distributing it for free Do you have a solution Yes he can makes multiple copies but provided you protected the ebook with an individual pas sword the password must match his name and email address For example you sell the ebook to Mark Smith msmith ge com If he copies the ebook he would have to give away hi
88. omparison using the two methods unfortunately with absolute positioning Fig 135 the user s screen must have the same video resolution and the same win dow size you used in order to get the correct display To quote a statistic this scenario may apply for only 10 15 of users this suggests that the highest percen tage of users instead would see a badly laid out page With a reflowable layout Fig 134 all the end users will see a more or less reaso nably laid out page All things considered it would be better to accept the in percentage tables philosophy since it is evident that it has a reason of being Invisible tables How can we insert in percentage tables making them fit for all resolutions Well it s very easy indeed since they are the default used by EBW Let s make an example now by recrea ting what is shown in Fig 135 but this time changing the absolute references which make the page video resolution dependent The example shown in Fig 135 is a page we found somewhere on the Internet We rob the images and the text for our example Firstly let s save the three images or let s create them Then let s run EBW and define the page s background as white using Format Page properties If you wish you can also insert an image as the background Now we have to put the three images saved previously Insert gt Image and an invisible table Insert gt Table with two columns t
89. ord mickey Fig 24 The Hypertext options password di al og Information Page settings background Password Cart Reader Show options we added the Global password Aeh Exe The password on the left mickey applies to these passwor d mickey Fad password pages double click for the page preview Gen rages fiati pass and we agreed to Author Pass Reader pass Title Size File name page e Iv it to all mickey 1 C E The Wizard of 02 44 0 apply It to a C E The Wonderful Wizard of 02 704 1 Copyright Information 1486 a pages then we ci ntroduction unchecked the first Table of Contents 7555 30 pages so for Chapter 1 The Cyclone 6408 33 l h Chapter 2 The Council with th 11602 34 example the cover Chanter 3 How Dorothy Saved 11227 z i and the copyrights 2 Emo he custom password for each user pass 9 p ec e J First name Family name Email and everybody will Apply mickey to all pages be able to see them 18 Hypertext options Fig 25 If you check custom password for each Global password Aeh Exe Information Page settings background Password Cart Reader Show options The password on the left mickey applies to these pages double click for the page preview user this window Add password See pages without pass becomes a on th
90. ore than 3 font sizes Following these recommendations i Fulfiled requirements i IPER try to cover a large amount of requirements Here you can find some of them You also may have to take alook at the applications page IPERedit aims to be an editor very ease to use with he if the developement of hypertexts on a PC and on the is immediate You can create contents without sande about files file systems networks markup languages 3 With IPERedit an hypertext composed of thousands of pages dozens of thousands of links hundreds of images is 35 in a whole file called A By lated This means an have only to transfer a single file to distribute your work on diskette CD or Internet cl Fig 154 A nice image with hot e spots www 9 an fantascienza ONE Pace sti i QUADRANT DELOS SEARCH ENGINE com PEOPLE DELOS RADIO DEL ges NEN OS Fay wen o ee ko OURITE Links os S Wey NUMERI PRECEDENTI j INTERNATIONAL EDITION i we are sure you will cope with creating attractive and well made pages Nothing else is needed Have fun with EBooksWriter 59 11 Frequent questions or any question email the support staff ebookswriter visualvision com or check the user s forum that has a powerful search box www ebookswriter com forum For immediate response to frequent que stions read below tutorials basic questions link and pages hypertext functions tables
91. other people install and view it the fonts are not the same as the ones I used to create the ebook Should I use just fonts that are universal on all computers Yes Times New Roman Arial and Courier New If the user has MSWindows Office usually also Verdana and some others It is usually not possible to distribute fonts due to copyrights If you want to use a fancy font for titles you may use transparent images we have a free plugin that permits you to do this auto matically you select a text you click a button the text is instantly transformed into an image by using the current font The image will be identi cal for all the end users Please see www visualvision com plugin text to image plugin FRAMES How can I delete some frames I inserted You should delete them frame by frame To delete a frame you should move its border to the top or to the left depending of the kind of the frame It may be faster to choose Format gt Advanced frameset manager then load a sim plest frame set from a template then press OK How can I remove the frames border Choose Format gt Page properties gt Frame pro perties or use the right mouse button In the dialog uncheck the box show rectangle border and write 0 inside the border between frames box I am working with frames and I noticed that the frames will not allow me to align text images to the top right hand corner It looks like the fra mes have a
92. ouse button gives yet another modification option Choose Properties and the window in Fig 45 will be displayed allowing you to define the properties for your table such as border s width or the background From here you can also assign a fixed size for your table or a percentage relative to the main win 30 dow Using the tab in Fig 46 you can act on a cell s background on a row or on a co lumn It s interesting to note that each cell can have a colored background an image or can be transparent What s more tables can be nested that means you can build a table inside a cell of another table and so on Notice at present mobi and epub don t allow nested tables You can select a whole table using the right mouse button click it with the rigth mouse button and Select table To copy a whole table simply select it and press CTRL INS then move to your required destination and press SHIFT INS it really is that easy 5 Frames and frame sets kostas method to make ebooks more appealing and usable is to split the screen into different sections or frames EBW offers you many tools to simplify the creation and modification of frames It also enables you to copy your frame layouts to different pages Creating frames Creating frames with EBW is really very easy all you need to do is to drag and release one of the notched bars that are on the screen sides As you will notice in most
93. p PRO Photoshop Corel Photo Paint or a similar graphics program to achieve this How can I set a background image or a back ground color for a page Format gt Page properties then click the icon with the cactus and the sun You can also insert tables using an image as the background click on a table or on a table cell with the right mouse button then properties Is there a fast way to change the image back ground for all pages of a site There are two ways If the background for all pages is already an image use Hypertext gt Images files link archive and erase select the image then press Replace Otherwise there is a button in the bottom right of the second tab of Hypertext gt Current hypertext properties dialog How can I place text beside an image Create a simple table with one row and two columns Inside the first column insert the image Inside the second one insert the text I am having trouble inserting an image with transparent background Sometimes it works and sometimes not It should work for the large majority of GIF images However not all images are suitable to be automatically converted using the included transparent color processor so you may have to proceed manually with external paint programs such as Paint Shop PRO Corel etc I see the paste from clipboard can perform the automatic conversion of a WMF to a GIF JPG format with a lower byte size As I alre
94. played window depending on the tab we select the fol lowing links can be established Link to other pages of the hypertext see Chapter 1 Link to other hypertexts Fig 31 shows how we can select another hy pertext and the page we want to link to Select the destination page for the link visually as the program provides us with a preview of the pages and enables us to surf through them Link to an Internet address EBW keeps track of all URLs referred to in the current hypertext As shown in Fig 32 we can choose the address to link to from a list or we can add a new one by clicking on the key Link to an embedded file we can include a text file or a ZIP or a PDF or any other file within a hypertext AEH file We can browse for a file in the file system using the window displayed in Fig 33 Clicking on the link will display the file If the selec ted file has an unknown extension EBW will ask for instructions Link to a page copied from a tem plate You can link to a new page copied on the fly from a template Fig 34 Link to a new page copied from an existing one within the current hyper text ebook Link to a new page copied from an existing one in another hypertext Link to a new empty page this is the simplest link that you can add detail to later Link to images It is not only possible to link to images but also sections of a picture using hot spots These methods will be dealt wit
95. protected you can see an AEH with almost all Visual Vision products In case I want to distribute AEH files that needs EBooksReader can I distribute EBook sReader from my Web site Yes sure Do I put a hyperlink to the free ebook reader EBooksReader on my website or do I put the ebook reader itself on my website You can put EbooksReader itself on your web site or you can supply the SFX exe that contains the EbooksReader How can I distribute your free reader with my Web site Please download and distribute the packed auto installing file that you can get from www visualvision com software ebooksreader_e html To distribute it simply load the file somewhere in your site for example in http www yoursite com EbooksReaderFREE e exe you need WS FTP or a similar FTP program to 68 do this Then place a graphic select it use the right mouse button define link 3rd tab press Add insert http www yoursite com EbooksReaderFREE e exe I created the SFX and when I click the exe it installs but I see a blank page Please use Hypertext gt Current hypertext pro perties second tab then click the Cover page button on the bottom left and choose a non empty page as cover page When I save my Ebook as SFX EXE and put the EXE file on another computer and install it all I get in the free browser is an empty gray page and cannot see or read the book This is because the default cover
96. putFile c nomeoutputfile pdf nomefile ps How can I import files To import use File gt Import and choose a file format RTF HTML ASCII then search for the files you want to import in the file system shown on the left and drag them to the right 71 The program can import multiple files at a time and automatically divide a single file into pages Use CTRL CTRL after the import to see the pages The import functions sometimes discard the text format so it would be better to use the native EBooksWriter functions once you have learnt them When I import RTF how does the system split a single file into multiple pages how does it de cide when to end a page and start a new one It uses an internal criteria You can choose in the import format menu one file one page or one page one page The latter option ensures that page breaks in the existing document are maintained in your created pages I have imported RTF pages but most of them do not include the continue link on the new pa ges Well you are supposed to write the pages IN SIDE the EBooks Writer program If you import the pages from another program the program attempts to do something automatically but YOU have the responsability to add all the links that are needed With the program you can place quickly very powerful links not only the se quential links expected for a sequential piece or book After importing the very first page is blank and I
97. r This is useful for linking to floating fra mes see Chapter 5 or to link to a sepa rate window or a frame within a separate window Any window with the specified name will have its content replaced by the destination page when the user clicks this type of link A popular use of special links and frame sets is to creating a left side or right side menu A step by step tutorial on this issue is available within the internal online manual hit the F1 key or use the gt Help menu Using the last tab it is possible to activate additional special links you can for example display the Search window which is very useful you can enable the end user to print the current frame with a click on the link as the link can be from an image you can add an image of a print button then you may associate this kind of link to the image As anticipated all these links work with text blocks single words images and also with hot spots Fig 36 Showing windows without a click Using Insert gt Page functions gt Open Close windows you can open or close a window as soon as the user enters the specified page A functional block will be inserted in the page and will be activa ted when the page is shown The functional block properties may be modified using the right mouse button see Fig 109 Here you can define the window attributes or supply the name of the window to be closed In th
98. r clicks on another window If the destination page is a frame set you can choose to show the whole frame set or just the master page see Chapter 5 to learn about the master page Choosing the second tab see Fig 104 and selecting opening a new browser win dow will show the destination page in another instance of the browser this is different from a normal window as it will include the navigation bar With the Sth tab you can close any window by name Links inside to frame sets Now we will see some useful links that work within frame sets Suppose that we have the layout as shown in Fig 107 We want a link from a word or text block in the right window that replaces the content of the same window while leaving the left window unchanged To obtain this we simply choose in cur rent window replaces caller page in the tab shown in Fig 104 when we click OK the program asks for the destination page which can as usual be chosen visually Another possible choice is more diffi cult to explain than to use The tab shown in Fig 108 which allows you to visually Link to X Fig 105 Let s 9 eg choose a choose a tab nati Fr A Pater Iver We idee destination page for amp 66 64 GU ke Te ec se BS the link and an page selected in list below e A frames 5 anchor The link Frame set 1 2 3 this dialog allows many Search for page
99. r rea ders and you can also hide any scroll bars Using these features you can easily create some interesting effects for your EBW works Please refer to chapters 5 and 6 for more details concerning the use of frames and related special links Don t exaggerate With a little practice and your powers of observation you will soon get excellent results with the several opportunities offe Fig 148 Lens Contents effect You can do ERI this with two different Taoduction backgrounds similar What to read but with different Adm knakloris color tone Fulfiled requirements Overnew IPERedit IPERserver 58 red by invisible tables frames back grounds and clickable maps To further enhance your work some graphics software is almost a necessity Use it to develop effects such as texture lens aliasing and fading and also to create your own buttons image maps split line and backgrounds Having said all that only one more rule requires attention In order to create really efficient and optimized pages don t exag gerate With so much power in your hands it s very difficult to set a limit but to keep your readers interest it s necessary to create light quick and efficient pages so don t overdo the effects With this same aim in mind we suggest that you use the same background for all pages that you don t use more than two different fonts one for the text blocks and one for titles and no m
100. rial IN Black elu siae Boz fiperzro i i type on your i Iiu l ee l pe 1 i l fe I fa l Ire l 199 l kd 1 e Mi ei Mir loj IKON a b keyboard Vegetables We could write a lot of things about vegetables Let s start with potatoes Or maybe not Let s start with Bao da a ambo za N Bw 1 107 HY modified P modified Text Untitled 2 0 0 Pago page tab the last on the right and press If you check the text box at the bottom the OK button EBooksWriter will de you ll see the current page number has fine the link switched to 1 Let s add a little text now and at the as shown in Fig 4 At this point we need to same time insert a link to the previous page page 0 A hypertextual link will take us the one about vegetables looks like an underlined to a new Now type then select the text Back to word or sentence with a h and click 3 he Tank click on it you will switch page where previous page and click again ont e Li to a related page a dou we could button chain picture The window as ble click when in the provide more shown in Fig 5 is displayed showing us a EBW edit window ac information list of all available pages within the hyper tually about pota text page 0 and page 1 in this case We toes can now directly choose the link destina Untitled eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION Loe ee IKI me File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools Help cnoose a wor QO
101. ried to create frames but why does the page reappear on the previous page or the fol lowing one when you Please read the complete manual Each new frame is in fact a new page so if you create a frame set in page 0 containing 3 frames if you go to page 1 you will find the 1st frame created in page 0 if you go to page 2 the 2nd and so on Any frame exists as a single page This allows you to re use the same frame e g a menu in different frame sets without having to copy it and without having to update every time you change it To select the page that fits a frame just use the right mouse button within a frame then select Choose page in frame TEMPLATES The templates seem to be in Italian or Spanish Where could I get English ones The templates are not in Italian It is a dummy latin like language that has no meaning The text is there purely to fit the page for demonstration purposes You can replace it with anything you like EXE SELFEXTRACTING EBOOKSREADER How is an e book supposed to look after it is downloaded Can a user edit it You can save an ebook either as standalone EXE file as an AEH file as a MOBI file and as a EPUB file If you distribute the AEH file you need to deploy the EBooksReader if you distribute the MOBI or the EPUB the end user needs a reader software this is included with some devices for some other devices the end users finds several reader products on the Internet
102. rt Table Format Hypertext Tools Help new table is cold gt HE SD SQ revenoj x Inserted it can be mr aC Beck v to zi aas B 7 resized by dragging Saa E E 81 a the gray rectangles or with the Table Properties right click sE ago Goro ca 39 T Poets 0 0 HY modified P modified Text Untitled 39 0 0 Pag0 29 Fig 45 TheTable properties window the cell row column properties 9 Table properties Table Cell row column 99 X size V Percent 0 Border Background Transparent amp O Image Table properties Color Table Cell row column Column size percent 33 E O fixed O free Background Transparent E O Image Color El Apply to DONT APPLY O Cel O Row O Column Row with altemate cols Column with altemate rows Row with altemate cols 1 Column with altemate rows 1 o zl Internal border 2 zi Cell spacing Using Insert gt Table will display the window shown in Fig 43 where you can choose from several predefined table layouts You can modify these tables if required using the Tables menu or by using the tool buttons on the toolbar e g you can add or delete rows and columns change the background color of a cell etc Placing your cursor over a table cell and using your right m
103. rted within epub and mobi ebooks Better to edit the image Is there any way to assign an image as a border fora page I have an image that is about 1 inch wide and I want it wrapped around the page Can this be done Yes you can create a table with 3 rows x 3 columns and use the image as background of the 8 externals cells right mouse button from within the cell then select Properties If you edit the Style of the paragraph that contains the table Format gt Styles you can eliminate the upper and external borders that this solution often lea Ves STYLES AND FONTS IfI change the font height sometimes this is lost when I write additional text Why Do not move the cursor after changing the font format Immediately start to type Can I save a style Yes Simply write its name in the styles cell then press ENTER and the settings of the current paragraph will be saved as style You can also import styles from another hypertext For crea ting new styles you can also choose Format gt Styles See also the proper chapter for more info 66 How can I recall a style I saved Simply click on the styles cell and select the required style How can I change the style of the links within a table Like any style i e by using Format gt Styles The default style for tables is no style in table I have created an ebook and used some of the fonts installed on my computer for the page The problem I have is when
104. s name and email address so it will publicly broadcast that he is a thief By the way you can prevent also this with a Internet lock we offer this at www ebookswriter com virtualvault I saved my ebook to SFX but I just see a gray page This is because the default cover and summary is page 0 If the page 0 is empty nothing is shown If you want the user to see other pages you must set the Cover and Sum mary properly Hypertext gt Current hypertext properties and MUST place links to the other pages All the internal methods that EBooks Wri ter provides for browsing pages are only availa ble to the author The reader is only able to click and follow links this way YOU get to decide what can be read and in what order For epub and mobi and opf idpf ebooks you can define the linear reading path with Hypertext gt Predefined page order TOC AEH DOC ZIP PDF FLASH JAVA ASP How can I insert an external file For example a ZIP a PDF etc You can embed the file within the ebook Select a text block then Insert gt Link then the 4th tab then select the file you want to insert from the file system What can I do with an AEH Can I see it only with EBooks Writer You can see an AEH with different Visual Vision products and also with the free EBooks Reader which works on the same principle as Acrobat Reader for PDF but AEH pages are reflowable and so more adapt for the video while PDF h
105. s over the lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 1234567890 times The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog of words set a size of 15 and apply bold to the text then write a name for the new style in the styles combo on the toolbar and press Enter A window will appear asking you to confirm the new style s parameters Another way to create a new style is by using Format gt New style directly from the menu the window in Fig 30 is displayed allowing you to define all the parameters for your new style To apply a style to a paragraph or a text block you must click on the Styles combo box arrow The help file indexE aeh you may find it with the MSWindows Start gt Find feature for example contains many different styles including List Text and Title Clicking on any of these items will reformat the selected text or paragraph using the selected style Another way is to type an existing style name in the Styles combo and to press Enter If you want to change style settings simply select a text block and apply modi fications then click in the styles combo and press Enter A window will be di splayed asking if you wish to make chan ges to the style select Modify style by using selected text
106. s so that we don t have to physically repeat the same menu for every page and at the same time make Fig 141 Page with a repeated square background 1 e seers Information sources for Photoshop and for other graphic programs Adobe Photoshop Web Reference desktopPublishing com Links to publishing resources MacArt Magazine previous seen here now has its own homepage Mkdzk check it out DesignSphere Online The Phoshop ffx Online Companion a great site with a very inclusive listing of Pshop plugins available for download p a 57 Fig 143 If you apply a coloured background to the table the text is more readable i inclusive listing of Pshop plugins Coo ise information sources for Photoshop and for other graphic ograms dobe Photoshop Web Reference esktopPublishing com Links to publishing resources acArt Magazine previous seen here now has its own omepage dzk check it out esignSphere Online he Phoshop f x Online Companion a great site with a very browsing much easier Some authors discourage the use of frames Actually the practice of discoura gement should not be applied to the correct use of frames but rather for those making bad use of them It is interesting to note that by choosing O as the value for the borders of a frame the borders will be invisible to you
107. s with his browser window Simply fix the width of the table column contai ning the text Use the right mouse button pro perties second tab then choose fixed for the table cell width IMAGES AREAS HOT SPOTS THUMBNAILS BACKGROUNDS ICONS Animated GIFs don t play in the editor Move to preview mode Hypertext gt Read only How can I move images and position them somewhere in the page I can t position an image as I would like The fixed position for an image is good when you create a text that will be printed on paper but has no sense for an ebook where the reader can see your work inside an unknown width window Your user might use a 200 pixel or a 1200 pixel width window and you don t know that The best thing to do then is to create a work that will be seen well on any PC in other words a work that all readers will like To do this simply use invisible tables i e tables without any border to position images on the page See Chapter 10 Graphics and paging pages If I want to add a caption near to an image is it better to use tables or frames Better to use a table How can I delete an image inside a table Select the image and press DEL two times If the image is a background choose Table gt Properties To delete the table right mouse button select table DEL Can I write some text over an image similar to using layers in a graphics program No you should use PaintSho
108. second tab then click the Sun and Cactus icon When I have to write words in 3 columns do I have to insert a table or can I just use the space bar You should use a table Never use the space bar as if you view the page from another PC or with a small device the size of the space might be different and you will lose the alignment How can I create a table with more than a column within a row You can insert a new table with any rows or columns within a cell of another table How can I delete copy a table Delete There are many ways For example put the cursor on a cell press the right mouse button then choose Select table then press DEL Copy Select the table as above then press CTRL INS Move the cursor to the destination then press SHIFT INS I m having a problem formatting text in a table The table text automatically formats itself to Times New Roman my default font is Arial and I also can t select the entire table column or row to apply the required formatting The table default style is no style in tab Simply change that style with Format gt Styles How do I lock the position of text within a table so that it does not reposition when the browser window is resized I know in many instances locking the text position is not desirable be cause the size of monitor used to view the 64 ebook will vary Despite that I have certain text that I do not want to reflow regardless of what the visitor doe
109. size from CSS we can spend some more words Both EBooksReader and the Mobi Rea der provide a font size control to the end user in both cases the user has a sort of zoom button that permits to increase and decrease the font size this by keeping the existing proportions example for a zoom the font A that is already big on the ebook will become more big the smaller font B will also become bigger but not as big as the A Instead most Epub readers are more limited Some are unable to do this auto scale when the font size is defined within the CSS But if you check the option strip size from CSS then EBooksWriter will remove the font size information from the CSS This destroys almost all the font si zes but it allows the Epub to auto resize a feature that can be very important on small devices and or for visually impaired rea ders end users Last but not least on the bottom left you can add informations metadata about ebook contributors for the author and the copyrights they are specified within the Current Hypertext Properties you can access this dialog also with the Hypertext Options button and on the bottom right you can define some special pages guide you can choose them visually with buttons Please notice that the behavior of the reading devices will not be identical for all these parameters Some devices will show to the end user the informations about the contributors Some will ignore Some
110. sole a set of buttons that the user will use to start the sound or video The loops box indicates how many loops are allowed if loop is selected as the action For example if you choose 1 you can insert an action that will be execu ted once when entering the page Headers and footers Each page can have a header and or a footer There is no special edit area for headers and footers these are managed separately Concisely you can use any page as a header or a footer for any other page so instead a special edit area you use a whole page or some pages If you want a global header for the entire site Create a page and insert all the things you want in your header a logo a sentence etc Select Hypertext gt Current hypertext properties click the second tab Fig 94 and the browse button near header In the window that will be displayed choose the page that you have just created 49 Fig 80 Insert Insert multimedia object animation and Multimedia object 179 sounds using this Choose multimedia file window you can 7 choose file insert any format supported by the Audio browser Video Action kind Show controls Loop Loops A E infinite 1 huna Generic object Java ActiveX With Format gt Page properties you can define a private header for any page Fig 95 or choose None Footers are ha
111. some special links work only with the editor in read only mode Hypertext gt Read only or within the ebook with the double click you just go edit the page referred by the 37 Fig 100 Showing amp CollegamentiS peciali aeh example eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION ES an anchor within a page the anchor QO 2 icons are not Arial visible out of edit mode The end This is the end of the example Special links Home Top File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools 2 Help dub 5 BLU YI Glock v 100 lt a B 7 ge gi NI ON CONVOI CM KO RN TN MON PON Keser A a basen PTET a OTIS iper U CDROMs IPER3PRO Eng CLIENT FXES_A If you are not in read only you can see the anchors SEmeoMo a 18 0 HY modified P modified Bers das sa Text La vita sociale delle scimmie example 36 40 Pag36 link you do not test the actual behavior of the special link Last but not least please notice that most special links are not supported by the mobi and epub formats these formats have constraints In this case EbooksWri ter will automatically convert these links to normal links when you create the epub or a mobi ebook Anchors The simplest of the special links are the links to a place within the same page that is called an Anchor Anchors act like a bookmark and allow jumping to sections within a given page This kind of link is useful when
112. t go within the program you used for creating the file e g Word Perfect Word choose the File gt Save as menu then from the pull down menu choose Rich Text Format RTF so your program will save a RTF file Then go back to EBW and use File gt Import to import this RTF file You may also use the Windows clipboard copy and paste Remember that an external editor is not needed you can just start the program and type on the keyboard CTRL for adding new pages EBooksWriter has its own editor for creating ebooks you don t need external programs See also the Tutorials Help Help then Tutorials Can two pages be viewed at once just like a real book You can do this if you d like You can use a ta ble with two columns or you can create frames and then place links It s very simple Please re member that the page number in the bottom box is just a facility for you the author and you can show the reader a completely different page number just type it at the bottom of the page The page number displayed in the bottom box has nothing to do with your book s page number I imported HTML pages but nothing is showing up Use CTRL amp CTRL to move between pages I want to create a Web site See www hyperpublish com or www site info then LINK AND PAGES HYPERTEXT FUNCTIONS I don t understand the way EBooksWriter saves pages All ebook pages are saved in a whole AEH file With
113. take a look at www visionhost info 16 pages for example EasyWebEditor or ISITE www lsite info or HyperPublish www hyperpublish com As for the ebook file the file may be placed to a folder on your web site with a direct link if it is a free ebook or into a secret folder if the customer must pay be fore being allowed to download to do the transfer to your web site you eventually need a FTP program for example Cute FTP Ws_FTP or ISITE HP internal Generic FTP feature You can deliver this file to your custo mers by email as well And some ecommerce services can deli ver the file automatically to the customer after purchase We do not deal with the ecommerce part but there are hundreds of ecommerce services that you can use to sell your ebook through your web site or through popular ebook sites There are threads on the user s forum about these things www ebookswriter com forum 3 Protecting the ebook n the same way that real books are often pirated piracy is also a real risk for ebooks EBooksWriter offers you several interesting options to help you to protect your work With the Hypertext gt Current hyper text properties menu first tab you can disable the printing and or the clipboard copy cut and paste When printing is globally disabled you can still enable a single page to be printed use Insert gt Special link and the print current frame feature see Fig 23
114. te a new empty page with File Fig 57 The A Frame set properties Advanced frame Advanced frame management Load from template Copy from other page management Selected frame properties Save Resume last Select a frame or dragkdrop borders to create new window when called from an Border between kamda empty page 34 Fig 58 This Frame set properties the demonstrates the Advanced frame management Load from template Copy from other page Copy from other Copy frame layout from selected page Copy layout Copy also non master frames page tab being Search for page by title Tabi p able age used within the Available pages 4 of content Frame set A Ra ka A Page properties window Tae of cores ici to select an E Untitled 162 existing page in the hypertext lt gt Fig 60 We ve DUntitled eBooksWriter GOLD VISUAL VISION JOE copied the same File Edit Search Insert Format Hypertext Tools 2 Help a ALE amp A ipen 13 e layout of pages A GO ki bed and B into an Ai aC ANE t B a a at A aa HAT ONTEN n TL E A empty page now we can write in the Table of contents ok now we copied frames page the master TEA section on the 2 Sado B B right EmmomOo a rono e dia ala ILL 1 HY modified P modified Text this page has not frames but you can add frames if you want 3 4 Fram i gt
115. th the latest news about the SF world You may find updated information on movies and books multimedia and television On this electronic newspaper you can regularly read a brief satiric column from the former editor of Robot Vittorio Curtoni 239 Document Done fine the A4 or US Letter format for all pages and then provide the user with a reader that has zoom capabilities for use on a small monitor If we do this pages will have a fixed size and the content will be the same for all video resolutions This is the method adopted for a lot of works provided with Acrobat Reader In our personal opinion this method is not ideal for users who have small monitors or with monitors working at a low video reso lution 54 a 4 Everything is relative EBW adopts a third method based on automatic justification Using this method the displayed content has no absolute posi tion value but is dependent on the width of the current window Firstly text fits accor ding to the window s width this means that if you narrow the window the length of each text line will change accordingly as shown in the example in Fig 134 This is also called reflowable text or reflowable layout To be effective when using this strategy it is essential to position all objects on the page using percentage or relative values rather than absolute values Looking at Fig 134 and Fig 135 we can make a c
116. the Good Witch of the North and pe 15 Fig 19 Some Export JO additional options Choose format Epub IDPF ebook publication structure one file only v Cancel r for mobi Pages to export Path Options Mobi Ebook Mobipocket only For Opt Mobi V cover image mobi E v create mobi e 38 UX per prokenghelientiimobigen exe DERFUL Command line options WIZARD 1792 By L Frank Wilh Pictures W W Dens x 9 A S E Sa cover image and you need an editor to create your Web On the right side you can set the Mobi compiler software EBooksWriter will preset it and or will help you in this With the command line options you can add advanced Mobi features such as protec tions and much more the inventors of the Mobi format provide documentation on this The Export dialog permits you also to export in RTF ASCII and HTML EBook distribution Web ecommerce marketing EBooks Writer does not lock you to a particular distribution system or to a pre defined seller or ecommerce You can choose any of the several op tions that are available on the market Usually you can market your ebook through existing popular web sites Amazon Ebay ebook collection sites such as EbooksLibrary com and or with your own Web site To advertise market distribute your ebook through your own Web site is quite easy you firstly have to obtain a Web space
117. the link or double click if in the editor Address Email 2f 10 40 id34971 sdasdas 20 80 51 75 Refresh Name Mark Smith EP jj Phone IdCode English Press Send to send data by Internet Send Print a shown in Fig 201 you can define an email address the cart content will be sent to that email or the path of a CGI script a fax number a remark for users and you can choose the colors for the shopping cart 48 rows If the user closes the cart window or uses the Reset button the cart content is deleted 9 Multimedia objects he following multimedia objects are directly supported pages with background music pages with buttons to start music pages with avi video mpeg wmv Sounds and video Use Insert gt Animation sound to insert an animation or a sound Interesting isn t it You will see the dialog shown in Fig 80 To choose the audio or video file click choose file The window shown in Fig 81 will be displayed For audio you can use any wav mp3 or midi file together with any format supported by your MS Windows install If you have already used a song on another page of your hypertext you can easily select it using the second tab Fig 82 For video files the process is very similar With action kind you can choose if you want a loop action e g background sound or repeated animation or to show a con
118. ting a group of images maybe from a digital camera Say you select 10 images then g Image gallery photo album Wo Fig 37 It is very easy to create a photo album you Path Options drag and drop a pieva07 Me group of photos a IMAGO013 JPG A 23 IMAGOO14 JPG from the hard disk im Agia or from your digital IM amp G0016 JPG 23 IMAGOO17 JPG camera Doene a a IMAGOO23JPG i each thumbnail links to a simple page O a popup window Choose or drag images from the left or drag amp drop from explorer amp CiAFoto pietra0 7A a IMAGOO24 JF a IMAGOO25 JF a IMAG0026 JF a IMAGOO28 JF a IMAGOO29 JF a IMAGOO3OJJF IMAGOOZ1 JF a IMAGOOS2JF IMAG0033 JF E Directory Images to be inserted O a window frame for name see Options 27 Fig 38 then you select the options the program can automatically 9 Image gallery photo album AJO Path Options Thumbnails JPEG Position width pixel o alo ipeg quality 5 i Bottom create thumbnails per row 5 i O Center fiter 1 6 e EB and can cok rows per page 5 4 OTop elvi G resample large images to X width pixel 460 zl ipeg quality 75 2 windows and fiter 1 6 3 a you press Popup properties Create a X size width 500 4 use image as background H Y size height 500
119. top margin of about 5 Can I get rid of this Yes within Hypertext gt Current hypertext pro perties second tab put the Margin setting to 0 default is 1 Or you may also define a style where the top margin of the style is something with a negative number 0 01 should be suffi cient and apply that style to the first paragraph then you may insert a table within that paragraph and experiment within it I want to add a page with frames I want to use as an existing page as a frame Create a new frame set Within a frame use the right click mouse menu to select which page will fit the frame You can also use Format gt Advanced frame set management See the chapter about frames I have a page with too many frames I went to hypertext then images files hyperlink archives and erase and tried to delete the pages with the frames When I go back to the page the frames are still there What am I doing wrong You probably deleted another page When working in the page with the frames press the frame no frame button at the bottom of the page it s besides the page number box That switches the view to no frame mode note it doesn t actually delete the frames it is just a display option This way you will see Which is the master page for the frame set Delete it and the frame set will be deleted Another way to delete a frameset is to replace it with another Format gt Advanced frame set manager I ve t
120. tton Also you can insert a exit link that will close once clicked This is available as special link DISTRIBUTION SELLING How is an e book supposed to look after it is downloaded Can a user edit it Any user will see the ebook in a read only envi ronment The end user reader is not supposed to have the EBooksWriter you can however setup an editing password and so disable editing even in such cases Hypertext gt Current hypertext properites Does the EBooksWriter have a function to ac cept credit cards online This is a function provided by various credit card services With a direct account you can insert a form or some codes in your Web pages in order to take orders Some third party services that provide you with the ability to accept credit cards are swreg org clickbank com kagi com and a lot more You are free to choose We don t lock you to a precise service How can I sell my ebooks I know I can put a sample ebook on my site for free downloading but is there a way to send the AEH or EXE file of the full book only to customers who have paid There are companies that can provide ESD electronic software delivery i e deliver a file only after payment is received Try for example www swreg org You will find others at www upload it Can I collect end user s email data Yes set up this with Hypertext gt Current hyper text properties Gold edition PROTECTIONS PASSWORDS COPY PR
121. ur compiler What program would you suggest that I write my document in so that I can take advantage of the features but is not too complex EBooks Writer is an all in one tool so you don t need external programs actually EBW includes a powerful multi page editor with all the com mon text features and with much more designed for speed when managing hypertext documents I saved the ebook as an exe file just as stated in the help file When I opened the aeh file it only displayed the cover page There is no way of getting to another page How do I do this For exe aeh ebooks you must place links to let the user browse the other pages The ways to browse pages provided INSIDE the Writer are for authors only The reader can just follow the links YOU place If you don t place links they will not see any other page other than the cover For epub mobi ebooks you must define a TOC with Hypertext gt Predefined page order TOC I want to evaluate your program but I can t get started I have a manuscript all ready I want to know how to get it into the program in order to continue and eventually see how your program compiles it What are my first steps From your question I guess that your work is in another text format use File gt Import then choose the format Not everything is imported automatically but any word processor software can save in RTF so if with File gt Import you can not see the file you d like to impor
122. ver menu that is the first page shown to your readers 2 Publishing a compact ebook as exe mobi he most appreciable qualities of a printed book are the compact size and its being handy An ebook created with EBW is as well compact and handy You can distribute it either as a compact exe file executable format for Windows PC the final user will be able to read it by simply double clicking the file on his her computer without additional software or you can save also into the more widely used com pact ebook formats mobi and epub they Fig 13 The window where you can insert your ebook s license message epub work on almost any device including Mac PC Kindle Sony Reader iPhone Black berry and several cell phones Palm and almost all handheld PCs Windows CE Mobile and much more a reader software is required although it is either usually provided when you purchase the device or downloadable from the Internet Self installing EXE ebook The self installing format exe file is the most powerful format you can choose for your ebook as all EBW features are widely supported To obtain a exe ebook Annulla Ebook license Edit your license statement here baad See Wonderful Wizard of Oz simple test ebook A LICENSE hereby gives you a non exclusive license to use the ebook the Ebook You may use the Ebook on any single computer use the Ebook on a second comput
123. you have a very long page but it is preferable to create short pages instead of using too much links of this kind To insert this kind of link first of all you must insert the anchors the landing points for the links Move the cursor to the link destination and use Insert gt Anchor from the main menu or SHIFT F5 An anchor icon appears Selecting it with your right mouse button allows you to edit its number each anchor has a different num ber Now select the text block or the image you want to link to your anchor and use Insert gt Special link on an image use your right mouse button and click Define 38 special link Click on OK in the window that will be displayed You will then see a dialog where you can select the destination Anchor either by number or visually on the page Click on the anchor within the preview a number is assigned to each anchor and will be displayed in the box at the bottom right and then click OK Then you can test the result in read only mode Hypertext gt Read only If you later need to modify the link destination place the cursor on the link use the right mouse button and select Link properties In the dialog window di splayed select Visual edit Fig 103 or Link target page You can also link to an anchor inserted on another page Select a text block use Insert gt Special link and select the se cond tab Fig 104 In the Tar

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