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Building EBooks with InDesign – Forced Line Br...

Adobe InDesign Tutorial

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 […]

InDesign CS5.5 7.5.2 Update fixes EPUB issues

Adobe InDesign News

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

Adobe InDesign Tutorial

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.