a free, lightweight eBook reading application for PC and Mac. You can preview the ePub you create in Adobe Digital Editions. Another posting details some of the improvements in CS4. Local formatting like bold will really come through as bold. Quite a few bugs are fixed, and you have new capabilities like being able to include images as anchored objects. InDesign CS4 will work much better than InDesign CS3. A highly useful blog post from Adobe called “Producing ePub documents from InDesign” provides some guidelines for preparing files correctly. Long InDesign documents need to be broken into separate files, and text frames need to be threaded together into one flow. However, not every InDesign file will work equally well. There are three panels of choices.īasically, the InDesign file is being converted to XHTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). You can create an ePub file by choosing File > Export for Digital Editions (CS4) or File > Cross-media Export > XHTML / Digital Editions (CS3). Not the final product, but a necessary step.” Think of epub as the eBook version of a press-ready PDF. epub is generally thought of as an intermediary format between the authoring/composition tool and the eBook itself. As Mike Rankin wrote on in February, ePub is “an open standard XML-based file format that allows text to reflow and adjust to the size of various screens. The first step is to create an ePub file.

Below, I’ll point out an alternative method of reading your InDesign-created eBook. But a new Adobe white paper published this week, along with a couple of helpful blog posts from Adobe, will help you get started exploring this new technology. However, the methodology for doing this isn’t necessarily easy or obvious. Great news for InDesign users is that Adobe InDesign provides one of the best ways to create e-Books (you need InDesign CS3 or InDesign CS4). When “The Lost Symbol,” Dan Brown’s followup to “The Da Vinci Code” was published this week, aside from preorders, the Kindle edition of the book outsold the hardcover edition at, one report said. They’re just about the only part of the book industry that’s growing.

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