Digital Editions

ADE does not currently support bi-directional text, so we cannot use it with Arabic epub books for example. Is there any plans to support bi-directional (e.g., right-to-left) text?

My understanding is that Flash Player 10 will support bi-directional text and since it is used as the rendering engine for ADE, may be you will support bi-directional when Flash Player 10 is released. If that is so, what time frame are we looking for?

Another question is MathML. If ADE does not support MathML, it will not be possible to use it for epub books with any amount of mathematics or formulas. epub has a way of MathML as an island in the html code, so we have a way of coding mathml in epub, but we need the viewers support to make this useful. This is a must for technical books and articles as well as for most of the text books.

With many thanks,

Ahmed Hindawi

I'd like to get a better feel for how you see Digital Editions from within the company. Not the polished formal or comprehensive and official description, but in your minds what's the main point of it, what's the intent, and where would you like to see it progress in the future? What sort of (realistic) hopes do you have for it's adoption, and how can that be encouraged along?

Thanks for the blog. I really look forward to your information and thoughts in the months to come!

What about the .xpgt file? It is possible to deduce most of it, but more complete detail would be good. (like: reducing the top margin on the first page, and interaction of column min-widths and font-size...)

And how will its operation fit with future implementation of the OPS extra CSS properties: display:oeb-page-head; display:oeb-page-foot; and oeb-column-number:[integer]; ?

I would like to know more about issues that directly affect ebook customers, such as activation, portability, backup and upgrades from previous programs.

Customers used to Adobe Reader 7 with its named activation and backup options are now asking us what to do. Right now, we have no idea!

I'm therefore hoping for an insider's view of these issues :-)

today's book market is grappling with Flash drive widgets which in principle should be no better than adobe's offer. However they are and that is one challenge. Associated with it is the one shoe fits all approach to A product (why on earth do i want a Kiko icon and facility that i can't configure out)

This is a terrific first version. Will a future edition support more robust printing capabilities such as page numbers and selective page printing?

We are producing a series of ebooks. My primary concern is how to make Acrobat (or Adobe Digital Documents) secure.

When I sell to a customer, I want only that customer to have rights to use it, preferably on one (max 2) computers, have them password protected with a unique password for each customer, and restrict the number of printable copies.

Does the new version of Acrobat or ADE do this effectively? How easy is it to break available protection? I know its very easy to bypass security with Acrobat documents.

Also..do you provide a tool for generating unique password for each copy of the ebook?

Any answers you can provide would be MOST welcome.

Thanks
Kamali

I've bought ebooks using Digital Edition technology. I would like to print at leat 1 copy so that i do not need to lug my laptop around with me. How can i do this?

How do I restore my digital editions libraries in Adobe 8 if I have a hard drive failure? Bonnie

Backups? Where is my eBook so I can back it up. Before I spend $100s on eBooks I would like to know that I'm not a risk of losing my investment.

Hi Peter,

When will there be a complete SDK (Developer Kit) available for the ADE?

If not, how do I develop Plug-Ins (New features) for the ADE?

Thanks
Rog

Is there a fix for Mac OS X (>10.4.9)? I upgraded to CS3 Web Premium in May, and the Digital Edition software has killed access to all of my purchased and free files. Trying to access the files even now that I have upgraded to 10.5 results in a circular round of html links between the Adobe Digital Editions information and download pages. The one time the software began to load, it stopped working trying to load my library. I have an Intel MacBook.

I'm an end user for this product. It is diabolical, and user-unfriendly. You will not do an Acrobat Reader 'conquer the world' with ADE.
I am a computer professional and I am fed up with 'looping' websites which do not work.
For a company of Adobe's standing to have a download site with a button that is self-referring is worse than miserable, it is unforgivable and unprofessional.

in the last week I've bought two ebooks, one from diesel ebooks and one from ebooks.com and neither one opens in digital editions - why not?

michael

I am really dissatisfied with the book and reader and will not purchase any other e-books like this. If I can't print to read my own copy, it isn't useful to me. I can't stand to read books on line.

[Please keep in mind that print permissions are set by the publishers, not Adobe. -- Peter]

What are the tools to create ebooks for digital editions?
Do they support other languages, such as Greek?

Lefteris,

Tools - Adobe InDesign is one such tool, but a lot of content is generated directly from XML (e.g. using XSLT).

We do not support all languages yet. Greek can be used as long as a font with Greek characters is included in the document.

Peter