We have already exported from InDesign and have an ePub3 file to review. We can see the results in Adobe Digital Edition and iBooks for MAC.

Some things aren't what we expected! Let's use a script to unpack the ePub and make a site in Dreamweaver.

Now we can edit the CSS and roundtrip back to InDesign.

When we select export to ePub from InDesign we are faced with a dialogue box with three sections.

This screencast explores those three areas and explains what the settings mean and what results we can expect from the ePub.

First note: I am now using InDesign CC.

Before we export to ePub from InDesign, there are some import issues to understand. To get the best results for the ePub, we must be sure to provide appropriate tags for paragraph, character and object styles.

We do this through the 'Export Tagging' panel of each of the style dialogues. This is also where we decide how InDesign will split the ePub.

Fo our convenience we can set all of these together through the 'Edit all Export Tags Panel'.

In our InDesign document all content needs to be attached to an appropriate style element.

We can use:

paragraph styles

character styles

object styles

table styles

We then need tags that will be mapped to those elements. They can (optionally) be the same names as our InDesign styles. They may also come from a DTD uploaded to our InDesign file in the structure pane.