Getting Started with IGP:Digital Publisher Portals
Your IGP:Digital Publisher Portal comes complete with everything you need to start production immediately. So you can understand how easy it is to get started, see the sample workflow scenarios below.
Self-training Resources
Start-up Interactive Tutorials
Every IGP:Digital Publisher Portal has a collection with a full set of tutorials that will show you how to use the core functionality. These are created in what we call "Productive Tutorial Style". They run quite fast and you generally need to use the space bar to pause and continue the various fragments.
Online Documentation
There is extensive documentation available. Because it is created and maintained in IGP:Digital Publisher, this can be viewed online, or you can generate a PDF at any time for more portability or printing.
IGP:Digital Publisher Portals Forum
The forum is available around the clock to ask questions, share issues and request assistance.
IGP:Document Designer
Every IGP:Digital Publisher Portal comes complete with IGP:Document Designer and Design Profiles.
Fonts
There is a basic set of open and free fonts supplied. For your own print PDFs you will need to provide your own fonts. This is to ensure font licensing and embedding in PDFs are fully and correctly licensed to you, and because font selection is a very personal designer issue and we cannot provide "all the fonts to all the people".
You can upload and use your own fonts at any time and they are maintained securely in your own font storage area. You can use True Type or Open Type fonts. You cannot use Adobe Type 1 fonts.
Templates and Content Blocks
The default installation comes with a large set of components built in. These are normally sufficient for most standard publishing such as trade, academic and even text books. Of course the challenge is learning what they do and how to access them, buy you have to provide that energy.
Covers
IGP:Digital Publisher does not provide any explicit tools for print cover creation. You will have to have your print covers produced using your current methods. You can upload a hi-res image of your front cover into Media Manager andIGP:Digital Publisher will automatically generate all your online, e-book and thumbnail covers.
Sample production workflow scenarios
1. Front list production from a Word-processor manuscript.
- Structure Style your front-list book using the Open Office OTT or Microsoft Office DOT template provided. For a 300 page novel with 20-30 chapters, this would normally take 2-4 hours, depending on the styling details. As you move ahead you can incorporate manuscript styling into your normal editorial review processes.
- Create a new IGP:Digital Publisher document. You should have most of your metadata information available at this time. This is required for valid ePub generation. (However you can do it later).
- Import the manuscript into IGP:Digital Publisher. It is auto tagged into IGP:FoundationXHTML and instantly ready.
- Open IGP:Digital Publisher and generate an ePub and a PDF as a general import test.
- Use IGP:Document Designer to customize your print book layout, and general presentation typography.
- Carry out print tracking and fine adjustments.
- Produce your output books.
2. Authoring a document in the IGP:Digital Publisher Interface.
- Create a new IGP:Digital Publisher document. You should have most of your metadata information available at this time. This is required for valid ePub generation. (However you can do it later).
- Select a book Template. Basic Book Temp
- Select a Presentation Template. We strongly recommend you always start with Trade Master, until you have more system familiarity.
- Insert a new Section from the document toolbar. There are multiple options available for a wide range of documents.
- Author your book. Share it with others for review and editorial assistances.
- At any time during the creative process you can generate an ePub or print PDF.
- When you have finished writing, create your final output formats and deliver them.
