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Does your website contain valuable content? Would you like to sell this content as an eBook? Or perhaps, just send out newsletters with a PDF attachement of your content? Have you ever considered that your website may have articles that could be gathered in an eBook format? Ever wanted to publish your own eBooks? Now as a Joomla site administrator, the job is way more easier!

eBook Factory is the only component who can build full eBooks out of the content of your site!

eBook Factory renders a PDF out of the content items of your site in matter of minutes and stores it on your server in order to have it ready for download or newsletter mailings!

Since Joomla’s own PDF engine is merely a basic text to pdf convertor, we put our best work into developing a component. This component not only respects the standard layout of an eBook, but also includes Graphics, Fonts, and External Links that you used in your content.

All of your work is done in the administration panel of Joomla. There, you can create a set of eBooks containing Chapters and subchapters from your content items. You can use the Sections and/or Categories: as Chapter titles, as well as Subchapters.

All of the Page numbering, and Table of Contents numbering is done automatically. You will be able to choose between Roman, Arbic numbering, and even have the option to use letters for subchapters.

Fonts and styles can be set for each eBook individually, and you can use a cover image to brand your eBook.

Any eBook can have unlimited numbers of columns, which will aid in making your eBook look professional, and easy to read.

Please read our "eBook Factory Tutorial" to get a quick walkthrough through all the Components Features and Configuration Options.

Starting from version 1.3.0 new Item sources have been added: you can now add chapters and subchapters from Virtuemart and Auction Factory.

Say for instance you want to create an electronic Catalogue out of your products in your Virtuemart eCommerce shop. All you have to do is add Categories or individual Items into an eBook and by rendering all products in that category will be pulled in your catalogue. You can fully control the way your catalogue looks by editing the templates handling the Virtuemart plugin. These are simple HTML files that can be edited without any PHP knowledge whatsoever.

You can test all of these features using our Demo Server. Feel free to test the product in the backend (administration) as you please since the server will reset itself each hour. If you would like a preview, you can check out a generated eBook, by following this link.

Requirements:

• Joomla 1.0.x Native or Joomla 1.5.x Legacy Mode only.

Version History:

eBook Factory 1.3.2 released on February 8, 2009.

• Improved handling for sites with significant amount of content.
• Fixed issue when generating PDF under IE. 

eBook Factory 1.3.1 released on December 12, 2008.

• Fixed several issues regarding PNG issue on alpha channel, storage path, preview item, cover images.

eBook Factory 1.3.0 released on December 2, 2008.

• Support for Joomla 1.5 Legacy Mode.
• New feature: Plugin for VirtueMart.
• New feature: Plugin for Auction Factory.
• Fixed issue regarding multiple images.

eBook Factory 1.1.0 released on Octomber 18, 2008.

• New feature: Password protected EBooks (PDF).
• New feature: Locked PDF.
• Added portait/lanscape orientation.
• Added Mambot processing support.
• Several issues fixed, better image processing - JPG, GIF, PNG, etc.

eBook Factory 1.0.1 released on May 7, 2007.

• Fixed issues with some foreign character sets in admin part (add item).
• Fixed issue regarding adding Static Content.
• Fixed issue with Servers with safe mode on.

eBook Factory 1.0.0 released on May 2, 2007.