A presentation that cover aspects of my book

I walk through the issues when creating reflowable eBooks.

Can you embed fonts?

What Space is available?

What is the Page?

Special Effects

and more

This screencast explains how images should placed into InDesign and then anchored into the text.

If we use 'Object Styles' then we can generate a style that provides a consistency throughout our book.

WE look at the results of our first effort and see what needs changing to get a better looking eBook.

We take an existing InDesign document prepared for print and export to ePub. WE then make some adjustments and do that again.

Including exporting to XML and viewing in TextWrangler

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

When we export our book to the reflowable ePub from InDesign, we have a choice about the content order. Usually we choose 'Based on Page Layout', but if you want to make sure that your front matter pages don't end up at the back of the book, then you need to use the Articles Panel to organise the content.

With a Shakespeare play in mind we have a DTD that we can import into InDesign. This provides us with the TAGS. If we name our styles with those same tags, we can 'map the syles to the tags' very easlily.

Unfortunately, InDesign does not provide us with the automation to map object styles, so we need to add those in to the structure.

It is not possible to add scrolling text fields in a reflowable ePUB, but with the fixed layout format we can add a text box on a page and include (almost) as much scrolling text as you like.