Chapter 1 Definitions of E-books: ......................................................................................

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Advantage of E-book. ..................................................................................................... 2
Creating an E-book in Word and PDF........................................................................ 3
Chapter 2 MULTIMEDIA .................................................................................................. 6
Advantage of multimedia................................................................................................ 6
Features of multimedia system ....................................................................................... 6
Hardware and software requirement fro multimedia ...................................................... 7
 DEPARTMENT OF EXTENSION EDUCATION
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, M. A. U.,
PARBHANI, M.S. (INDIA)

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Assignment 9 REG. NO. : 89M/08A
Submitted by: Prakash K. P Submitted to: Dr. R. P. Kadam

Study on E-Books and Multimedia production

Chapter 1 Definitions of E-books:

E-book - an electronically formatted book, designed to be read from a computer, which
may be a desktop computer, a handheld computer, or a specialized ...

An e-book is a book in electronic format. It is downloaded to a computer, PC, Mac,

laptop, PDA or any other kind of computer, and is read on the screen. It can have
numbered pages, table of contents, pictures and graphics, exactly like a printed book.

Advantage of E-book.

1. E-books are delivered almost instantaneously. You can purchase, download and start
reading them within minutes, without leaving your chair. You don't have to go to a
bookstore to buy them, neither wait for them for days, weeks and sometimes more to
arrive in the mail.

2. No trees are required to manufacture paper for the pages of e-books.

3. When you need certain information, you can get it immediately, by downloading an
e-book.

4. E-books take up less space. You practically don't need any space to store them. You
don't need a library or a room for them. You can store hundreds and thousands of e-
books in your computer.

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5. E-books are portable. You can carry a whole library of hundreds of books with you,
on CD, in a laptop, notebook or any e-book reader, without worrying about their
weight.
6. E-books are more safely stored and carried from one place to another, than ordinary
books. They also withstand time more than books.

7. E-books can show links, for easy access to more information and related websites.

8. E-books are searchable. You can easily search for any information in an e-book,
instead of turning page after page.

9. E-books can be interactive and contain audio, video and animations, which can
enhance the message that the author is trying to convey.

10. As e-books are delivered through the Internet, there are no packing and shipping
expenses.

11. E-books can be printable, so that if you wish to read an e-book in the traditional way,
you can very inexpensively print it with your home printer or at any printing shop.

12. E-books are very easy to to sell and distribute.

13. It is very simple and easy to purchase and download an e-book. People living in big
modernized cities, in a remote village in a far away country or on a small island, can
equally access an e-book. It takes them the same amount of time to purchase and
download an e-book, provided they have an Internet connection.

Creating an E-book in Word and PDF

The most common file format for an E-book is Adobe Acrobat PDF. You'll be doing the
actual "design" of your book in your word-processing program, however. (If you have a
complex design that includes lots of illustrations, you may wish to use a desktop
publishing program such as Page maker or Quark; however, that's beyond the scope of
this column.)

Since Word is the most commonly used word processing program (and the program in
which most e-publishers will expect your document), this column will focus on
formatting in Word.

You do not need to actually own Adobe Acrobat to convert your E-book into a PDF file.
However, if you want to add more features to your PDF document (such as hotlinked
URLs, forms, or pages imported from other programs), you will need to buy the program.
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Designing Your E-book

.You'll need to consider the following elements:

Page size: Most books aren't formatted to an 8.5x11-inch page. E-books are typically
between 5x7 and 6x9 (with 5.5x8.5 being a typical format).

Margins: Use Word's "Format: Document" command to set margins to a minimum of

three quarters of an inch on all sides. (You may wish to set top and/or bottom margins
slightly larger if you plan to use a header and/or footer.) Since E-books don't have "left"
and "right" pages, turn off the "mirror margins" option.

Headers and Footers: Place a "running header" at the top of each page. The easiest
approach is to simply include the title of your book and the page number.

To make sure that your header doesn't appear on the first page of each chapter, you'll
need to use the "Insert: Break: Section: Next Page" command (rather than a page break)
to separate chapters.

Then, make sure that you've checked "different first page" in the "Format: Document:
Layout" menu. You can also create a new header for each chapter (e.g., using the chapter
title rather than the book title); to do this, turn off the "same as previous" option in the
header command.

Font: It's best to use standard fonts such as Times, Times New Roman, or Palatino. fonts
such as Arial or Helvetica are good for chapter headings and subheads. Use a minimum
of 11 points for your text, and 12 to 14 points for subheads.

Illustrations: One nice feature of an E-book is that it doesn't cost extra to include photos,
drawings, charts, etc. If you have a scanner, you can scan your own illustrations and
convert them to .gif or .jpg files. A program like Photoshop will enable you to crop,
enlarge, or reduce those images, or make other modifications. When laying out photos or
illustrations, be sure to leave an ample margin between the image and the surrounding
text, and, where appropriate, include captions. It will also enable you to save them at a
lower resolution, thus reducing file size.

Front Matter: Your book doesn't really start with "Chapter One, page one." It starts with
"front matter," including:

A title page

Acknowledgements, if desired

Table of contents (you can generate this automatically in Word by using "headings"
formats for your chapter titles and subheads).

Back matter: The back of your book is a good place for an index, your bio, and contact
information. It's also a good place to include advertisements for any other books that you
are selling.

Formatting in Acrobat
Adobe Acrobat takes your Word document and displays it "as is" in a PDF file. To
generate a PDF file, use the "print" command in Word and select the "Save as File"
option under the "General" pull-down menu. Select "Acrobat PDF" as the file type and
set "Destination" to "File." Hit the "print" button and your document will be converted to
a PDF file.

If you actually own Acrobat, you can add other useful features to your E-book. For
example, you can automatically hotlink every URL in the text (be sure to include the
http:// prefix on all URLS). I recommend underlining links or formatting them in a color,
such as blue, so that the reader will easily recognize them as hotlinks.

You can link your table of contents directly to the text. You can also import pages or files
from other programs, including charts and illustrations. (If you plan to import files, leave
a blank page in your original document, to be replaced by the imported page; otherwise,
your pagination will be incorrect.) You can also set various protection levels for your
book (including a restriction on printing, though I don't recommend this!).

Should You Zip It?

All you need to compress your E-book is a program such as DropStuff or DropZip; you
can download free demo versions of these programs for Windows or Mac from Aladdin
Systems.

DropStuff will create a .sit file; DropZip will create a .zip file. (I have found little
difference between these two.) If you compress your Ebook file, your readers must be
able to open those files again, so it's a good idea to provide a link to a site where the user
can download a free version of such programs as WinZip or Stuffit Expander.

With a little planning and the right software, you can create your own Ebook with a
few clicks of a mouse!
Chapter 2 MULTIMEDIA
(An Emerging Technology for Communication)

Multimedia refers to a synthesis of text, data, graphics, animation, optimal storage, image
processing and sound. Using the multimedia data types, such as video, graphics, images
or animation, any participant can introduce illustrative material in to the meeting to
facilitate better communication.
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Advantage of multimedia

No wastage of time.

Easy to learn and operate.

Graphs and Diagrams can be reproduced perfectly.

The animation in diagrams facilitates quick understanding.

Multimedia storage and retrival system can contain more information and can
have many terminals through which learners can have access to the information.

The main benefits are critical thinking individualized teaching, learning and one
can learn at his own time and place.
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Features of multimedia system

1. Audio: It is a set of sequenced data generated from an oral recording. It

comprises of and audio adapter, an audio input device such as a microphone,
software to digitize the analog sound, amplifiers and speaker.

2. Video: Video is a set of temporally sequences photographic data. One can

convert video sources from television video recorder and video camera to digital
video.
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 3. Animation: It is yet another feature of multimedia capabilities. It can be a set of
objectives, two dimensional (2-D) animation is the most common type today such
as cartoons, three dimensional (3-D) animation has mostly been confined to the
engineering field.

4. Texts: The existing text information can be available in both printed and
electronic forms. Words and symbols in any form, spoken, are the most common
system of communication.

5. Image: Image includes pictures and photographs. The storage representation of

image is a direct Translation of image pixel by pixel.

6. Video conference: A way to talk with people and see them on a computer
simultaneously, this new technology require, special cameras, monitors,
software’s, time, money and practice.

7. Virtual reality (VR): VR is new technologies that allow the user to experience
3-D interaction with the computer. Some VR systems may incorporate special
visors, helmets, gloves and special 3-D graphics technology;

Hardware and software requirement fro multimedia

Multimedia requires hardware and software power and speed as well as special
capabilities to capture sound, image and video.

To enter the interactive multimedia world, the following hardware and software are some
samples worth considering.

Hardware: A multimedia computer system (i.e. developer work station, multimedia

work station, multimedia kiosk system and portable computer system) including color
monitor. Double speed CD- ROM drive, digital camera, audio/video controller, digitizer
and frame grabbers, accelerators, scanner etc.

Software:

A basic editing software package, as those available from Adobe, Avid, Radius
and others.

2-D modeling: Adobe photoshop, Virtus Crop’s virtus VR rendering software.

Animation: Macromedia’s Director 4.0, Adobe’s premier 4.1, Avid’s videoshop

3.0.
 Development tools: Aimtech’s Icon Author motion works mediashop and
ToolBook.

Drawing and Printing: Adobe’s photoshop. Aldus Photos tyler 2.0.

Presentation and video deiting software: Motion works camera men Eduquests
Linkway 2.01 and Linkway Livel Linel system.

Multimedia works and IBM’s storyboard Livel 2.0

Media catalogue: Adobe’s Fetch 1.2, Electronic imagery’s Image manager and
Lenel system media organizer.

Music software: MIdisoft’s studio. Turtle Breach System’s wave, sound Desiner 2
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