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Preparing your InDesign flesor ePub export
(updated to include CS5.5)
Ron Bilodeauwww.oreilly.com
ron@oreilly.com
blog: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/3771
twitter: @biladew
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Organized Content Flow
Options or controlling the order o your content when exported to ePub:
1. Single text ow with linked rames 2. Order based on XML Structure
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3. Order based onArticles Panel(New in CS5.5)
Organized Content Flow (cont.)
Options or controlling the order o your content when exported to ePub:
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Consistent Use o Styles
Always create and use Paragraph and character styles to style text
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Figure Preparation
Controlling fgure ordering when exported to ePub
From page 2 o this presentation, i you are using option 1 (Single text ow with linked rames) or your ContentFlow Organization, then you need to place your fgures using 1 o the ollowing 2 options:
Inline Anchored
I you use the XML Structure Pane or Articles Panel to dictate the order o your fgures, then you do not need toapply the Inline or Anchored options listed above.
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Figure Preparation (cont.)
Applying Figure export settings
New to CS5, is the Object Export Options dialog.
When exporting or ePub, this dialog can be used to set Custom Rasterization,Custom Image Alignment & Spacing, and also Alt ext.
(Relative to Page Width)
(Fixed)
(JPEG)
(GIF)
(PNG)
(72)
(96)
(150)(300)
Tese settings are not exclusive to linked fgures.
You can also use this dialog to tell InDesign to export any Object (or group o Objects)as a single optimized ePub-ready image.
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Interactive Navigation
Hyperlinks and Cross-Reerences
I your hyperlinks and cross-reerences are properly set up using InDesigns built-in unctionality, then they willtranslate seemlessly to clickable hyperlinks when exported to ePub.*
Footnotes
Properly set up ootnotes will also translate seemlessly to clickable hyperlinks when exported to ePub.Te ootnote reerence link will take you to the ootnote. Ten, clicking the number at the beginning o theootnote will take you back to the reerence.
* Tere is currently a bug in CS5 that breaks some o these hyperlinks, but it is fxed in CS5.5
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Interactive Navigation (cont.)
InDesign-Generated TOC (CS5.5 only)
I your fle includes a properly generated able o Contents, that too will be converted seemlessly to clickablehyperlinks when exported to ePub.
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Using the InDesign Book fle
I your project includes more than 1 InDesign fle, then the Book fle is necessary to properly export or ePub.
Most o us are amiliar with the benefts o using a Book fle or print production, such as pagination and style-
syncing.
But it is just as important or ePub export o multiple InDesign fles (i not more so).
Here are some ePub-specifc things that a Book fle does or you:
Dictates the order o your ePub html fles
One-step export to ePub
Book Style Source used to indicate location o ePub OCand File Ino (metadata)
Also used to sync and update style and cross-reerenceinormation across included documents
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Including Metadata
In order to have InDesign include some basic metadata with your exported ePub fle, you need to add it to theDescription tab within the File Ino dialog (File/File Ino...).
You only need to add this inormation to 1 o your InDesign fles (i there are more than 1), but make sure that itis the fle designated by the Book panel as the style source.
I using CS5.5, the date ino is added automatically, based on the day the ePub fle is created.
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Setting up the ePub TOC
Te able o Contents Styles dialog that is used to create an auto-generated OC or print is also the same dialogthat is used to create the built-in ePub OC (toc.ncx), that is accessible by most, i not all, ePub readers.
I you already have a OC set up that includes the same styles that you would want in your ePub, then there is noneed to create another style. Just select that one when exporting to ePub.
But i you dont already have one, it is very easy to set up.
You only need to worry about 2 felds in the dialog when setting it up or ePub:
OC Style (Give it a name)
Include Paragraph Styles (these are the styles that will create your entries)
Once the OC Style is established, just save it and that is it. (But make sure that it lives in the fle that isestablished as the style source in your Book panel.)
When you are ready to export your fles to ePub, select it rom the drop-down list in the Export Options dialog.
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ePub Export Settings (CS5.5)
General Tab
Grabs metadata
rom File InoThis feld will auto-
populate on export i
let empty
This option will order
page elements rom
Let to Right and then
Top to BottomSee pages 2 & 3 or
more ino on these
ePub Margin settings
or readers that allow
this option Numbered List options:
(Map to Ordered Lists)
(Map to Static Ordered Lists)
(Convert to Text)
ePub coverrendering options
Bulleted List options:
(Map to Unordered Lists)
(Convert to Text)
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ePub Export Settings (CS5.5) (cont.)
Image Tab
These Image options are similar to the
Object Export Options (page 6), but will be
applied to any objects with no individual
Object Export Options selected
Check this option only i you wish to
ignore individual Object Export Optionssettings and use the above settings
or all objects in your document(s)
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ePub Export Settings (CS5.5) (cont.)
Contents Tab
Drop down menu to
select pre-defned
ePub TOC inormation
(page 11)
Select DTBook
(DAISY Digital Talking
Book ) only i you
are creating a book
intended or visually
impaired readers
Footnotes will be
placed at the end oeach section i this
is not checked
This option will build
a stylesheet based on
document Paragraph
and Character styling
Select this option
i you would like
InDesign to create astylesheet with names
only (no defnitions)
Drop down menu to
select Paragraph Stylethat will indicate a new
ePub page break
This option will create
extra stylesheet
elements to account
or Style overrides
Select this option i
you have a pre-existingstylesheet
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What is not included when exporting to ePub
Master page elementsheaders, ooters, page numbers, tabs, etc.
InDesign-generated TOCCS3, CS4, CS5
(included i using CS5.5)
InDesign-generated Index
Paragraph Rulesabove and below
Nested StylesCS3, CS4, CS5
(included i using CS5.5)
Any elements on the pasteboard
Fonts that are not OTF or TTor do not have the necessary embedable bits
Any outlines that are createdwithin the InDesign document(ie. lines, shapes, icons, etc.)CS3, CS4, CS5
(included i using CS5.5, but only i using theArticles Panel or directly applying an Object
Export setting)
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External Reerences & Resources
http://indesignsecrets.com/Te worlds #1 resource or all things InDesign
http://www.threepress.org/document/epub-validate/Easy to use ePub validation tool
http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/Liz Castros blog, which is a great resource or ePub-related ino, updates, and tips
http://www.teusdejong.nl/eus de Jongs web site where you can fnd some great InDesign Scripts, including the CS5 xRe fx
http://idpf.org/Te global trade and standards association or electronic publishing
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