Books Comics Magazines Enterprise
Agenda
1. Who we are ? What we do...
2. The AVE Format
•The motivations ?
•Improving readability of FL documents : Comics,
Table Books, ...
• Advanced FL Documents (including epub3)
•Use cases - Demos
•Challenges - Our dreams for epub3
The crazy stuff
!
Aquafadas
in a nutshell
Aquafadas
- French Startup (2006)
- Tool makers :
MotionComposer
Video/Animation
software
html5
authoring
digital comics
authoring +
platform
digital publishing
- Digital Comic Book Store (> 2500 books)
- Digital Publishing Solution : from authoring (ID and
Quark) to cloud-based-distribution and app building
- Designed a very rich, fixed layout format : AVE
- epub3 friendly : FL and reflow export from InDesign
CS5+
Aquafadas
Aquafadas
- member of IDPF for a few weeks only, but...
Delighted to be able to share our experience,
maybe even inspire you
and help working on the epub3
standard...and beyond
Format
AVE Format
Why ?
AVE Format
• Back in 2007, no standard Fixed Layout,
Image-friendly format
• Experiment with immersive reading UI
• Experiment with resolution/screen
independant solutions
• Control the reader UI
• Propose Reading Cinematics
• Support enrichment layers, including
enrichments by the community
AVE Format - the origins
• Layers
• root layer = original
QuickTime™ and a
H.264 decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
doc
• each layer describes a
processing on the root
layer, or additional
content to composite
• rendering by a
dedicated reader
AVE Format
Interactivity /
multimedia
enrichments
Localization (jp)
<cinematics>
<cinematic id=”iPad”...>
<page pageId=”0”>
...
</page>
</cinematic>
</cinematics>
iPhone cinematics <localizations>
id=”jp”>
by Aquafadas <localization
<page pageId=”0”>
iPad cinematics
by Aquafadas
Original content (en)
...
</page>
</localization>
</localizations>
...
AVE Format
iPad cinematics
by Bob
Localization by Bill
(fr)
Free
Digital Comics Authoring
Tool
AVE Format - the vision
Collaborative authoring
Community building
New artistic expression
No copyright/rights infringement
New economy
Reading Comics
Who wants to pinch, pan and zoom ?????
Animated reading (small screens)
•Scenes : to extract images
•Shots : to animate paths
•transitions : to animate
paths
Page reading
• The standard approach :
panel Views (Comixology,
Amazon)
AVE Comics - Page reading (1)
• Aquafadas approach :
Scenes, shots and
ideal_text_zoom
•Scenes : represent an area
of the page that needs to be
displayed at least once as a
single entity. Can be
polylines
•Shots : represent linked
zones (progression) of the
page that need to be
displayed in sequence when
the scene is not entirely
visible or when zoom factor <
ideal_text_zoom
AVE Comics - Page reading (2)
• Dynamic reading path : on-
Adjust to
the-fly adjustment when user
User / Tired /
zooms
Viewing impaired
•Scenes : the viewer will
attempt to show as many
scenes as possible that fit in
the viewport given the zoom
factor
•Shots : the viewer will zoom
into a scene to view shots
when the current viewport
means that the current zoom
< ideal_text_zoom
Minimizes
Moves
Make sure it
is readable /
Guide the
unexperienced
reader
Demos
Comics
Improving readibility for Table Books
• PDF background
• Enrichments in
overlays
• Guided reading
• Reflow
• User chooses the
zoom factor >
accessibility
Redon - AppStore - (c) RMN - Grand Palais
Demos
Guided Reading
Advanced FL
The crazy stuff
!
All content in
the following
demos has
been created
by designers
and does not
involve any
hand-written
code
Use Case 1 : Controlling the reader
• Control the UI
• Control the
Navigation
Animation
Button
Button
Image
• Make
Button
Button
Button
Button
document
hierachical
Use Case 2 : Non linear books
• Has become a
1
2
2.1
3
2.2
2.3
2
Story
V1
Story
V2
fairly ‘standard’ in
the magazine
world
•Remove the
Credits
navigation between
pages
•Add buttons from
the 1st page to
launch different
versions of the
book
Mix styles in a single document : Magazines/Books
• Open a different
reader inside a
reader
Fixed Layout Epubs : challenges
• handling
animations in
spreads
Animation
•handling sound
effects in spreads
Sound
Conclusion
Conclusion
•Adaptative Guided Reading is a great way to
improve readability of books, including comics, as
well as a way to improve acessibility of FL books
•eBooks can be more than books...without
requiring any coding.
Designers/Publishers/Individuals can great content.
•Aquafadas wants to contribute extending the
possibilities of FL epub3 when it comes to comics,
table books, children books
•Aquafadas continuously improving epub3 support
in its tools.
• Aquafadas will soon introduce Aquafadas Digital
Factory, an easy to use workflow portal for epub3,
digital comics creation from images, PDFs,...
Books Comics Magazines
Contact - Matthieu Kopp - mkopp@aquafadas.com