EN 62524:2011

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Multimedia systems and equipment - Multimedia e-publishing and e-books - Reader's
format for e-publishing (IEC 62524:2009)
Multimediasysteme und -geräte – E-Publishing und E-Books für Multimedia-
Anwendungen – Reader-Format für E-Publishing (IEC 62524:2009)
Systèmes et appareils multimedia – Edition électronique multimedia et livres
électroniques – Format du lecteur pour édition électronique (CEI 62524:2009)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 62524:2011
ICS:
01.140.40 Založništvo Publishing
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35.240.30 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in information,
informatiki, dokumentiranju in documentation and
založništvu publishing
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD
EN 62524
NORME EUROPÉENNE
February 2011
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 33.160.99
English version
Multimedia systems and equipment -
Multimedia e-publishing and e-books -
Reader's format for e-publishing
(IEC 62524:2009)
Systèmes et appareils multimedia – Multimediasysteme und -geräte -
Edition électronique multimedia et livres E-Publishing und E-Books für Multimedia-
électroniques – Format du lecteur pour Anwendungen -
édition électronique Reader-Format für E-Publishing
(CEI 62524:2009) (IEC 62524:2009)

This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2011-01-02. CENELEC members are bound to comply
with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard
the status of a national standard without any alteration.

Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on
application to the Central Secretariat or to any CENELEC member.

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Ref. No. EN 62524:2011 E
Foreword
The text of document 100/1376/CDV, future edition 1 of IEC 62524, prepared by technical area 10,
Multimedia e-publishing and e-books, of IEC TC 100, Audio, video and multimedia systems and
equipment, was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and was approved by CENELEC as
EN 62524 on 2011-01-02.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN and CENELEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent
rights.
The following dates were fixed:
– latest date by which the EN has to be implemented
at national level by publication of an identical
national standard or by endorsement (dop) 2011-10-02
– latest date by which the national standards conflicting
with the EN have to be withdrawn (dow) 2014-01-02
Annex ZA has been added by CENELEC.
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 62524:2009 was approved by CENELEC as a European
Standard without any modification.
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Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications

The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced
document (including any amendments) applies.

NOTE  When an international publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the relevant EN/HD
applies.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year

IEC/TS 62229 2006 Multimedia systems and equipment - - -
Multimedia e-publishing and e-book -
Conceptual model for multimedia e-publishing

IEC 62524 ®
Edition 1.0 2009-02
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
Multimedia systems and equipment – Multimedia e-publishing and e-books –
Reader’s format for e-publishing

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
PRICE CODE
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ICS 33.160.99 ISBN 978-2-88910-754-4
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CONTENTS
FOREWORD.4

INTRODUCTION.6

1 Scope.7

2 Normative references .7

3 Terms and definitions .7

4 Position and requirements for reader’s format .8

4.1 Reader’s format in contents creation/distribution model.8

4.2 Requirements for reader’s format .8
4.3 File format.9
4.4 Features of the reader’s Format .9
4.4.1 General .9
4.4.2 Types of displayable elements.9
4.4.3 Layout and styling .9
4.4.4 Fonts .10
4.4.5 E-book specific features .10
5 Conformance level.10
Annex A (normative) C-XMDF reader's format .11
Bibliography.48

Figure 1 – Contents creation/distribution model .8
Figure A.1 – Relation between generic and reader's formats.11
Figure A.2 – A visual example of a text flow.22
Figure A.3 – Relationship between cell flow, cell and scene.26
Figure A.4 – Paragraph tag and an image.31
Figure A.5 – Flowing text interrupted by line break tag.33
Figure A.6 – Horizontal line tag and an image.34
Figure A.7 – Effect of horizontal tag.36
Figure A.8 – Text and image tag .38
Figure A.9 – Effect of align parameter .39
Figure A.10 – Image splitting .42

Table A.1 – File types .11
Table A.2 – Cxmdf_string type .12
Table A.3 – File types .14
Table A.4 – File naming conventions .15
Table A.5 – Media types .16
Table A.6 – The data structure of root file .16
Table A.7 – Special characters .22
Table A.8 – Data structure of text flow control file .23
Table A.9 – Data structure of block control information .25
Table A.10 – Treatment of block boundary.26
Table A.11 – Data structure of cell flow control file .27

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Table A.12 – Data structure of cell control information .28

Table A.13 – Parameters of a paragraph tag stored in block control information .32

Table A.14 – Parameter of a line break tag stored in the block control information.33

Table A.15 – Parameters of a font settings tag stored in the block control information .35

Table A.16 – Parameters of a ruby tag stored in the block control information .36

Table A.17 – Parameter stored in the block control information.36

Table A.18 – Parameters stored in the block control information .37

Table A.19 – Parameters of an image tag stored in the block control information .39

Table A.20 – Parameters of mask tag stored in the block control information .40
Table A.21 – Parameters of link jump tag stored in the block control information .41
Table A.22 – Parameters of a URL jump tag stored in the block control information .41
Table A.23 – Parameters of a mailer launch tag stored in the block control information .42
Table A.24 – Data structure of the MIG format .43
Table A.25 – Gif image support.44
Table A.26 – Possible tag nesting.45
Table A.27 – Conformance levels .46
Table A.28 – Tags eligible for each conformance level.46
Table A.29 – Files eligible for each conformance level.46

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FOREWORD
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