Building EBooks with InDesign – Forced Line Breaks
Org. posted 1-Jan-2012,
Updated 3-Jan-2012 / Postscript added
One of the pitfalls of converting print publications to EBooks, is that designers often use forced line breaks (Shift+Return/Enter) in print-layouts to control where headings and even paragraph lines are broken. Doing so can cause problems when the same document is also converted to EPUB later on. Problems can occur when we leave the line breaks in the document, but also when we simply opt to remove them. Let’s have a look at what issues we encounter… and how we can fix things in InDesign without altering our layout Continue reading »
prior to EPUB export.
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Best wishes…
To all my followers and friends,
Thank you for your support in 2011. I’ve had an amazingly diverse year work-wise and am super grateful for having had the opportunity to meet many of you in person at #PePCon 2011 in Alexandria, VA and at InDesign User Group meetings in Australia and the Netherlands. Wishing you all an enjoyable holiday season and a wonderful & creative 2012…
(artwork created with Adobe Illustrator)
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Tomaxxi’s Script: Renaming images from within InDesign
Some time ago Tomaxxi (Marijan Tompa) wrote a small script that allows you to rename images from within InDesign. You might wonder why you’d want to use a script like this? Well, I actually found myself using it this morning as part of an EPUB production process.
I’d received client-supplied print artwork in InDesign, and the Links used in the document contained all sorts of naming conventions. Including the use of special characters. So I decided to perform the big clean-up. I could have used Adobe Bridge’s Batch Rename to convert special characters to underscores etc., but that would have left InDesign displaying a ton of missing links afterwards… What Marijan’s script allowed me to do is rename the images to my liking AND retain the Links in InDesign in one hit. Nice!
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Figures in InDesign CS5.5 and Accessibility
After reading David’s blog-post on InDesign Secrets, titled “Building an Org Chart or Flowchart in InDesign“. I thought… “How does building illustrations in InDesign impact the development of Accessible PDF with InDesign CS5.5?”
InDesign CS5.5 introduced significant new features for EPUB/HTML and PDF export. Building Accessible PDFs is now much, MUCH easier… It’s not yet perfect and we’ll still need to do some extra work in Adobe Acrobat X, but overall the delivery of an Accessible PDF is a lot less time-consuming than it would have been in working in InDesign CS5.
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InDesign CS5.5 7.5.2 Update fixes EPUB issues
Amongst a list of issues that’s been resolved with today’s Adobe InDesign CS5.5 7.5.2 update release are a couple of EPUB issues. Notably:
- An issue in the DOCTYPE of the EPUB, where InDesign would insert an extra space, which in turn caused iBooks to return an error and stop rendering the EPUB.
- The iBooks rendering issue when ;­ (soft-hyphen) characters appear in a story.
- An issue caused by the InDesign document containing composite (CID) fonts , which resulted in InDesign unexpectedly quiting on File Export to EPUB.
Web references:
- InDesign CS 7.5.2 Release Notes
- Macintosh Update | Windows Update
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Back to the Basics with Perth IDUG
The upcoming Perth InDesign User Group meeting, October 5, is the 3rd anniversary of the user group. We will take you back to the basics during this meet… The IDUG meetings are a great way of meeting other InDesign users from in and around Perth.
Membership’s absolutely free, and you can even grab a cool drink and a slice of pizza before our meeting starts during our Pre-Meet-Gettogether.
The meeting’s held at Edith Cowan University campus (thanks to sponsorship) in Mt. Lawley.
Hope to see you there.
More info/registration:
http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/perth/events/1914/
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It’s been quiet
Wanted to let my loyal followers know I’m still here Apologies for the long pause between blog-posts… At the end of June I flew away for a couple of weeks… visiting family overseas and putting my feet up for a bit basically 
… Since I’ve been back I’ve been on the road a fair bit and not spend much time in the office… As soon as I find some spare time I will be adding new blog-posts… There are quite a few sitting on the back burner Thank you all for sticking by me
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InDesign Secrets: creative Place and Story Linking
InDesign CS5.5 introduces a new feature called Linked Stories. I’ve just posted a contributor blog-post on InDesign Secrets that gives one example of how you could use this new feature.
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