Questions tagged [indesign]
Adobe InDesign is a software tool for page layout and typesetting for print, ebooks, and tablets.
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Punctuation Moved to Beginning of Line?
I am working, not to say struggling, with an EPUB3 book exported from InDesign 2023.
The dedication page looks like this in Sigil:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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How to remove extraneous page numbers from ePub TOC
I've created this epub file as an export from an Indesign file, and it's got two problems that I can see immediately:
The ToC includes page numbers after the chapter titles, even though I've created ...
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How to include SVG in eBooks
How can one add .SVG files to ebooks in a way that is supported by major ereaders?
I've raked through the entire internet, and I find two things:
People bragging about including SVG in their eBook.
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How to avoid sporadic page breaks in epub when using page markers?
I'm inserting page markers to an epub file to then create a page list to reflect page numbers that mimic the print version of the book, i.e.:
<span epub:type="pagebreak" id="page4" title="4" />
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How can I create beautifully designed ebooks?
Are ebooks created in Photoshop? or I should first insert photos in M.S word then convert it to .pdf file?
I want to create a ebook for marketing purpose.
also, how can i have a menu in my ebook, so ...
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is there any way to convert/import Microsoft Word documnet to Adobe InDesign book
Can we convert a Microsoft Word document to Adobe InDesign book?
When I tried to import Microsoft Mord document into Adobe InDesign, the software gave error as unsupported document.
If you know any ...
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Can I split chapters with CSS?
I'm learning to create epubs with InDesign. If you want a particular element inside a chapter (e.g. a subheading) to appear at the top of the next page, you can assign it a CSS style that has been ...
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Internal Links Between InDesign Documents Don't Work
First, a little background: I created a series of documents, each one representing a chapter in my book. Then I created a book and imported all the documents into it. It seems to be working OK; when I ...
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Can I use bold and italics tags?
I'm new to epubs; I'm wading through the InDesign tutorials and will then have to learn how to work with iBooks Author (and perhaps Sigil as well).
Anyway, I ran into an unexpected snag in InDesign: ...
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Importing XHTML Files into InDesign
I just watched a series of InDesign tutorials on Lynda.com. It looks relatively simple, but one thing I'm hung up on is importing content.
I created my book as a website in Dreamweaver, so I could ...
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Should every paragraph tag have a CSS style (InDesign)?
I'm working on my first epub, and I would like to use the following CSS scheme:
Most paragraph tags would have no class assigned and would be styled by a simple rule in the style sheet...
p {}
A ...
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InDesign EPUB omitting page 1 in iBook thumbnails
I create an InDesign document which I am exporting as a Fixed layout EPUB. When viewing in iBooks, page 1 (first page of the book itself, I'm not talking about the separate cover file) does not show ...
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Epub: Paragraph breaks in unwanted places and leaves Widows
I converted my book from print format (indesign) to .mobi by exporting it via a kindle export plugin. After that I used Calibre to convert it to an epub. When I view the book on Google play Books ...
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Creating books for CreateSpace in InDesign
I'm working on some code to (amongst other tasks) help export an indesign document to a PDF suitable for CreateSpace submission. I've been looking around for the answers to my questions online, but ...
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How do I preserve named text anchors in EPUB export from InDesign?
Overview: I'm trying to export an index for an ebook using Ole Kvern's scripting tools, linked to the paragraph level instead of page numbers. The index was created outside of Indesign, in Macrex ...
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Exporting epub fixed layout
Im trying to export an epub 3.0 from indesign as fixed layout but when I do it, the layout and typefaces are actually changing,.. anybody knows how could I fix this problem... I'm new and about to ...
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Referencing cover, title, and dedication pages in ePub navigational TOC
I am preparing a book for ePub conversion in Indesign CC 2014. I have noticed almost all professional ePub eBooks have their TOCs reference every single page starting with the cover page. In print, ...
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Choosing the right dimensions for ePub
I am preparing book in Indesign for an eventual ePub export. My page dimensions are:
Width 768 px
Height 1024 px
Orientation portrait
Margins 0 px (since iBooks provides its own margins by default)
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Is it possible to make a Kindle ebook look exactly like my InDesign / PDF file?
I have a book that I designed using InDesign and it has a very specific layout where some pages refer to other pages (kind of like analogue hyperlinks).
I need to convert it now into a Kindle-...
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Google Play Books enhanced with video not working
I am developing an enhanced ebook for Google Play Books in fixed layout epub. I am using Adobe Indesign to develop this ebook. I am having great difficulty adding videos in my ebook. I have exhausted ...
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Indesign -> Kindlegen -> Kindle flattens TOC?
I'd like 4 levels of hierarchy in my Kindle navigational TOC (aka "logical TOC" in Kindle Publishing Guidelines terminology), but when I do this:
1. InDesign CC → File → Export → (choose my nested ...
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CircularFLO doesn't apply styles for live text
I do conversion with CircularFLO from .indd to .epub. The problem is that live text doesn't pick up styles. I have live text in my document but it is always Times New Roman. What am I missing?
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Generating Previews
I have ~1500 generated .epub files and their indesign files
I need a script or program to generate previews for these EPUBs.
Preview could be in jpeg or epub format.
By preview I mean first 10 ...