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 file the Style Group names…read more →
I found myself sitting in the classics library of one of Perth’s beautiful private colleges the other day… staring at the 1875 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Taking a volume off the shelf and flipping through the fragile and slightly yellowish pages brought about a feeling of nostalgia… I couldn’t help but wonder how 135 years from now — in 2045…read more →
With the release of the Apple iPad earlier in the year and the increase in the number of reading devices, such as the Kindle, Sony or Kobo eReader etc., digital publishing is quickly becoming the new way in which we develop, distribute and read our books, magazines and newspapers. In the upcoming InDesign User Group meeting in Perth, Western Australia…read more →
Interesting interview by Nick Evershed (NPA) with Australian editors, Garry Linnell (Daily Telegraph), Simon Pristel (Herald Sun), Mel Mansell (the Advertiser) and Michael Crutcher (Courier-Mail). They share their view on moving newspaper to online, tablets (iPad), apps. Interesting points they make is that with online/tablet readers, newspapers can more easily target different reader-groups (e.g. age-based) and already monitor every click…read more →
Updated 13-Nov-2010, added Footnotes Note. Received an email today in which the following question was asked: “Is there an InDesign add-on that you know of that a) can take static endnotes and transform them to dynamic (i.e. linked) footnotes and b) can change static endnotes to dynamic endnotes”.
Part 3: Handling grouped illustrations This is the third in a series of articles I’m dedicating to conversion of print publications to EPUB. The first article covered handling of content order, the second looked at controlling break points in EPUBs. I was going to dedicate the third article on text-formatting, but have decided to return to the topic of graphics…read more →
In Part 2 of my article series on Moving Print Publications to EPUB we look at managing when certain EPUB content starts on a new page when reading a publication on our EPUB Reading device. It looks at defining content breaks in what appears to be a seemingly continuous flow of content.
Although earlier versions of InDesign have had support for Digital Editions Export (EPUB), up until the most recent release of InDesign (CS5), we would have had to change the way in which our documents were laid out in order to best prepare them for EPUB output. This was primarily due to the fact that the content order of the EPUB would be based on the document’s Page Layout. InDesign CS5 enables content order creation based on Page Layout or XML Structure.