EPUB
Building EBooks with InDesign – Forced Line Breaks
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
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. [...]
Tomaxxi’s Script: Renaming images from within InDesign
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
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 [...]
InDesign CS5.5 7.5.2 Update fixes EPUB issues
Thursday, October 20th, 2011
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 [...]
EPUB Export & Relative to Page Size
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
Updated 7 June 2011 (added additional notes ). One of the new InDesign CS5.5′s EPUB Export Option features is the ability to control whether images are exported with Fixed width or Relative to Page Size setting. In this blog-post I’m running through a few findings.
InDesign Character Styles & EPUB
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
I’ve been head deep into EPUB… and wanted to share another finding with InDesign CS5.5. A short post only, because I’m in the middle of work InDesign CS5.5 now recognises character styles that are applied through nested styles and GREP styles during EPUB export. That’s very cool! It adds a span tag with class references [...]
InDesign CS5.5 Lists & EPUB.
Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
Updated 10-May-2011 (added alternate option, thanks to Bob’s comment) Publishers quite often generate multiple paragraph styles for bulleted and numbered lists behaviour. For instance the first or last bullet point in a list might have slightly different space before and after settings applied to it.
CS5.5 & Any Screen
Monday, April 11th, 2011
As creatives all over the world wake-up today… we’re greeted with Adobe’s official CS5.5 announcement.
Style Group Names to CSS prefix
Monday, April 4th, 2011
When working on EPUB output from InDesign, the stylesheet names in the generated CSS can become quite long, at the same time the number of styles for more complex documents can increase quickly. So I’ve started placing paragraph styles in particular in Style Groups that are named with short names. When InDesign generates the CSS [...]