About this manual

Document Conventions

This is the IGP:Writer User's Manual for IGP:Digital Publisher. This section describes who should read this guide, how the guide is organized, and other resources related to Infogrid Pacific publishing products. 

IGP:Digital Publisher is often referred to within this guide as "DP" or "Digital Publisher"; likewise IGP:Reader/IGP:Writer are referred to in this guide as "Reader" and "Writer" respectively;  IGP:FoundationXHTML  is referred to as "FX" and IGP:Font Manager 2 is referred to as FM2. All copyrights and legal protections still apply to the abbreviated terms. When full product names are used they are italicized. Abbreviations are not italicized.

Document Series

This is one document in a series supporting IGP:Digital Publisher (DP). Digital Publisher is a large application with many supporting modules and specialist tools. Other manuals in this series you will need to be familar with to use the full application suite are:

IGP:Digital Publisher Management User Manual

IGP:Format on Demand User Guide

IGP:Typography in the Browser User Manual

IGP:Font Manager 2 User Manual

Audience

This guide is intended for end-users who are going to use IGP:Digital Publisher for the production of print and digital books and documents and its associated and support applications and components in a collaborative production environment for creating publisher quality outputs for print, Online, e-Book and other format expressions and variants.

Required Knowledge and Skills

This guide assumes you are familiar with the following:

• Basic publisher typesetting and publishing production terms and methods
• Electronic book format variants such as PDF, Print PDF, Online editions, e-Book editions and the specialist characteristics of those formats.
• Basic understanding and ability to use dashboards, toolbars and business tools.
• Familiarity with the existence purpose and basics of the W3 international XHTML and CSS standards and e-book standards, and their importance to content processing. Where these are referred, they are presented for informational value and are separated in the individual topic bodies. They do not affect the ability to understand any other part of the manual. 

How to Use this Manual

This manual is divided into major topics that allow you to both learn to use IGP:Digital Publisher, and use it in practical scenarios. 

If you work through the manual in the sequence presented, you will cover the major knowledge items to get the most out of your IGP:Digital Publisher application. Because the topics cover a very wide range of publishing terms and concepts, and introduce new publishing paradigms, linear reading may not be the best method. 

IGP:Digital Publisher is a very large horizontal application covering all aspects of digital content production and long-term maintenance. It is unlikely that you will be able to learn this in a sort time, and there will always be topics covering

The topics are authored in IGP:Digital Publisher to create the user manual you are using. Topics are written as "stand-alone" to the extent possible. They try to contain all the information you need to use them successfully, so within the instructional text you will not often see distant relationship or references to other topics such as "See Topic X".

Search and Keywords

All IGP websites can be searched independently for topics and subjects. The search bar is available at the top of every page.

The websites that have been indexed for search are:

1. www.infogridpacific.com. The Infogrid Pacific main commercial site.
2. apex.infogridpacific.com. A site containing various articles on different aspects of digital content formats, production and ownership.
3. azardi.infogridpacific.com. Information and downloads about the AZARDI ePub3 reader.
4. learn.infogridpacific.com. The Infogrid Pacific User Manuals online information site.

Beside search results, most web pages on all sites have brief descriptions and keywords to enable you too quickly understand the relevance of results and navigate between similar topics even if on different sites.

Keywords

Keywords are organized into three levels of relevance:

Product. The primary or supporting product name. Note the IGP: prefix is not included in search keywords.

Feature. The sub-module, tool or process(es) the article covers. Not listed here.

Action. The tutorial actions on this page.

Object. A tangible content component that is affected by an action.

Product keywords

Product keywords are expressed without the IGP: prefix in title case

AZARDI (Reader)

AZARDI Content Fulfilment

IGP:Bookstore

IGP:Digital Publisher Management

IGP:Digital Publisher

IGP:Distribution Manager

IGP:Document Designer

IGP:Font Manager 2

IGP:Formats on Demand

IGP:InfoArchitect 2

IGP:InfoViewer 2

IGP:Long Running Process Engine

IGP:Repository 2

IGP:Typography in the Browser

IGP:Writer

Action keywords

save 

create

insert

generate

key

edit

change

modify

update

copy

paste

control

delete

remove

cut

import

export

use

view

link

hyperlink

index

Object keywords

files

manuscripts

images

rich-media

audio

video

metadata

processing instructions

fonts

font-faces

font-families

character

glyph

formats

ePub3

ePub2

Kindle Mobi

Print PDF

RGB PDF

Composition PDF

packages

static-site

web-app

scorm-package

fx-zip package

DP archive package