IntroductionWelcome| 00:04 |
Hi, there.
My name is Rufus Deuchler.
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I'm a designer, dreamer, and worldwide
software evangilist.
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In this video seminar, I will be giving
you an overview of how to create an eBook
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with Adobe InDesign.
And I'll give you a head start on
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creating your first e-publication.
This course was created with graphic
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designers in mind.
And I expect you to have some basic
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knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite,
specifically InDesign and some Photoshop
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for image compression.
However, no prior experience creating
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eBooks is required or expected.
If you are a publisher on the other hand,
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this course may also be interesting as a
way to quickly learn about the
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limitations of the ePub format.
And enable you to give correct directives
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to your layout artists.
So what is an ePub, you might ask?
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An ePub is an electronic version of a
publication that has been optimized for
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on-screen viewing.
There are many different types of screens
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an ePub can be on.
From the monitor of your PC, to a range
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of devices, the size of your cellular
phone, to dedicated eBook readers, to
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tablet computers.
Each with different resolutions and sizes.
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Thankfully, ePub provides a way of easily
viewing text and images on any of those devices.
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In the series of videos, I will guide you
through the steps that I took to write my
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very own eBook on creating ePub with
InDesign.
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In a very short amount of time, I then
published it to the Amazon digital text
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platform where it is selling online.
This is tangible proof that you can
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indeed quickly and easily create and
publish ePub documents using Adobe InDesign.
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I will show you how to manage text and
images to have the best possible results
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for ePub.
You'll also learn to look into the code
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generated by InDesign upon export, and
get the basic knowledge required to edit
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that code to optimize the output.
By the time you're done, you'll be able
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to create and publish your eBook as
quickly as I did.
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So, thanks for taking this course and
enjoy the ride.
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1. Getting StartedWhat is an EPUB?| 00:02 |
What is an EPUB?
An EPUB is the electronic version of a
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publication that has been optimized for
onscreen viewing.
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Onscreen is a very generalistic term ,as
there are many different types of screens
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EPUB can be viewed on.
From the monitors of your PC's, to a
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variety of devices that range from your
cellular phone, to dedicated ebook
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readers, to tablet computers.
Each with different resolutions and sizes.
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What this means, is that you need to keep
all of these different formats in mind,
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to optimize the users reading experience.
In order to accommodate for various
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screen sizes, the EPUB format describes a
single and continuous flow of text and images.
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Very much like an antique scroll, from a
beginning to an end.
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What makes the EPUB format so incredibly
flexible, is that text and images reflow
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within the space allocated to viewing it.
Meaning that text lines will be shorter
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on your mobile phones, and longer on
tablets.
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And EPUB does not have fixed margins, it
does not have page numbering, it does not
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display specific font size, or face.
Basically this can be very well prove to
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be a designers complete worst nightmare.
Personally as a designer, there are quite
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a few formatting issues with E-pub that I
had to overcome, and learn to live with.
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You have to go through the same exact
catharsis.
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So let's all stand up, shout it out loud,
and get it over with.
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I, as the designer or publisher, have
little or no control over how my reader
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will view my ebook.
So let's bite the bullet and move on.
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To show you what I mean by text
reflowing, I have prepared two views of
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the book we are going to work on in this
course.
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First of all, let's look at this
application here.
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This is called Adobe Digital Editions.
And this is Adobe's application to view
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and read EPUB.
We can see here, that we can preview the cover.
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We can access the different chapters of
the book, just like little hyperlinks.
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And actually view the text inside of my
screen here.
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There's a couple of other things that we
can do.
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For example, to increase the text size,
or decrease the text size.
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And as I increase the text size, you will
actually see that the text in fact reflows.
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It takes a new shape.
Let's move back to the smaller font size.
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And also go to another application that
I've opened here, which is the Amazon
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Kindle Previewer.
And in this case, what I'm previewing is
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how this exact same EPUB would look on an
iPhone.
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In this case, also, the text is very big
because it's represented on a smaller display.
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But again, in the Kindle for the iPhone,
I can set the font size to something
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maybe smaller, like this, and actually
read my ebook in such a way.
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If we move across the pages, we will see
that in this chapter, we also have an image.
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This is what I mean by text and images
flowing together inside of a single document.
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What we can do now is also go preview on
another device.
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For example, by choosing up here Devices
> Kindle DX, or the simple Kindle, the
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first generation Kindle.
And you will see that the images now
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appear in black and white.
But if I move back we will something even
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more scary.
The fact that the Kindle actually
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completely changed the font of the
document.
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It changed the appearance of it, the
space between the paragraphs.
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It has nothing to do with my original
EPUB like we have here.
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So the beauty of EPUB, just as happened
with HTML for the web, is that designers
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have to make due with what is available.
And learn a whole new way of publishing
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their content within those very fixed
limits.
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So you need not worry about perfect
justification, Kerning or hyphenation, as
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all of these attributes will be lost
depending on the size of your reader's screen.
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The font your user chooses to view the
ebook with.
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Or, in the case of the Kindle, the font
the hardware device chooses to display
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the text with.
And in some cases even the background
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cutter or the texture of the page.
So as mentioned before, you have little
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or no control over the appearance of the
text and images inside of your EPUB.
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What you do have though is the
opportunity to create the EPUB with
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InDesign in such as way that your reader
will not feel the need to personalize his
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or her reading experience.
And this is what we'll be looking at in
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this course.
I will not cover the ins and outs of the
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generated EPUB files, limiting myself to
describe just the necessary knowledge of
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XHTML and CSS to tweak the EPUB that
InDesign generates.
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So the intention of this course is to
guide you through all of the steps that I
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have taken as a designer to take my own
content into InDesign, format it, export
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it as EPUB, tweak it, and ultimately
publish it online.
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By following the basic instructions, you
will be able to create your own ebooks
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with your own content using InDesign.
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| Software needed for this course| 00:02 |
This Seminar has been devolped in such a
way that everything described can be done
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by using Adobe End Design, Adobe
Photoshop and software available for free
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or as donationware on the Internet.
To create and test ePub, I have used the
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following applications.
First, Adobe End Design to create the
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layout, then Adobe Photoshop, mainly to
crop and optimize the images because
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we'll need to export them as JPEGs or
GIFs, so that they are optimized for Web
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viewing or Digital viewing or, in our
case, ePub viewing.
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Another application which I've also used
is Adobe Digital Editions.
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Which is the Adobe solution for viewing
ePub content on the PC, Mac or Windows,
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and basically, it's an error application
that allows you to look at the ePub.
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Another very important application is
Sigil.
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Sigil is a multi platform, Mac and
Windows, what you see if what you get
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e-book editor.
It's actually designed to edit books in
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the epub format and is great for
tweaking the XHTML, and CSS files
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contained inside of the ePub.
In that case, donations to the developers
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are very welcome.
Finally, the last application that we'll
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have to download, is the Amazon Kindle
Previewer.
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The Kindle Previewer, is a tool that
emulates how books display on Kindle
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devices, or applications.
Kindle Previewer makes it very easy to
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preview the layout of your book and make
sure its text displays properly for any
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orientation or font size.
Currently, the previewer emulates the
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Kindle, the Kindle DX, the Kindle for
iPhone and Kindle for the iPad.
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What I've done, here is to prepare a
couple of web links to those pages where
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you can actually download these.
You'll find those inside of the course material.
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There's one to Adobe Digital Editions,
one to Amazon Kindle publishing program
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and one to Sigil.
Let's have a quick look at those.
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First of all, Adobe Digital Editions, and
you'll find the Download button right here.
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Then on Amazon Kindle's Publishing
Program, you have access to a whole bunch
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of applications that help you create ePub
for the Kindle.
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For example, there is one here called The
Kindle Generator.
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And that's a tool that allows you to
create ebooks that can be sold through
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the Amazon Kindle platform.
If you go down a little bit lower,
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there's even a plugin for InDesign that
let's you export from InDesign directly
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into the Kindle format.
In our case, we will not be using that plugin.
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Because we want control over how the code
is actually generated.
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And we're going to be using Sigil to
actually look into the code and make it
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even better for ePub.
And if we go down lower, here it is, the
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Kindle Previewer.
And this is what you have to download to
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actually preview your ePub in the Kindle
format, to see what it looks like.
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And the last page that I want to show you
is, the Sigil page, and this is on Google.
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And Sigil is a what you see is what you
get eBook editor, and you can download it
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right from here.
There is one for Mac, one for Windows,
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and one for Linux.
So you can really choose the platform
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that you want to use Sigil on.
We will be looking at Sigil much more in
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detail when we come to actually tweaking
the code inside of the application.
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All of these application that I mentioned
can be used both on the Mac and the PC.
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And in the case of Sigil, even on Linux.
Basically you'll quickly learn to jump
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from one application to the other to
check the quality of your ePub.
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I find myself with all of these
applications open at all times.
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When you first start with ePub, you will
notice that there is quite some trial and
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error until you get the hang of it, and
then creating an ePub will be as easy as
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saying Adobecadabra.
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| Creating a new InDesign document with the EPUB in mind| 00:02 |
Because eBooks don't have a fixed size
and for the purpose of this course I have
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chosen to create a new InDesign document
so that it slightly resembles what I'm
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likely to see using a eBook reader on the
iPad.
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I've made the iPad my highest common
denominator as far as screen size goes.
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I've also chosen to set my live area, the
area within the page margins, to a width
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of 600 by 800 pixels.
Because this is the maximum size I will
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allow my images to be in this
publication.
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Being able to use the margins as a visual
delimeter for images, will make it much,
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much easier to place them.
And check that they are not larger than
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my self imposed maximum size.
So let's do that.
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In InDesign, create a new document by
choosing File > New Document.
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Or, from the welcome screen, simply by
clicking on the Document button here.
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Create New Document.
Then in the New Document options, I will
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choose Intent Web.
This will generate a new document with
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non-facing pages.
And with the ruler set to pixel
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measurements, which is new in Adobe
InDesign CS5, and it'll also
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automatically set the transparency blend
space of the document to document RGB.
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We will be working, in fact, in the RGB
color space.
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So make sure that facing pages remains
unchecked.
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This will make it much, much easier to
get a feeling of how the flow of the text
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will work in your electronic publication.
There are no right and left pages in ePub.
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Furthermore, I find it much, much easier
to scroll through pages of a document
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when they are displayed in a linear, top
to bottom sequence.
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In the Page Size portion of the New
Document window, you can choose from any
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standard size in pixels.
I chose the resolution of the iPad, 1,024
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x 768 pixels, and set the orientation for
Vertical instead of Landscape.
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You will notice that when you choose
Intent Web, InDesign automatically sets
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the orientation of the page to
Horizontal.
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That's because, usually when you create
interactive content in InDesign, that
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interactive content will be viewed on a
monitor, which has a horizontal viewing area.
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In our case, we want the publication to
be Vertical.
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And simply by clicking an Orientation
Portrait, we are doing just that.
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Don't bother setting columns unless it
makes it easier for you to work on the
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file, as these will be completely
disregarded upon ePub export.
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As far as margins are concerned, I have
chosen to create a live area, the area
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within the margins, that is 600 x 800
pixels.
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So my margins are therefore set to put
top to 84, okay?
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Let's put that all around the document
and then only change by unchaining the
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little icon here.
The bottom margin I will change to 840
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pixels, okay?
So by giving it these measurements 84,
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140, 84 and 84.
I'm actually creating a 600 x 800 pixel
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live area in my document.
So another useful thing that we can do
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here is actually save that as a preset.
I will call mine, very cunningly, ePub.
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Like this, okay?
So that next time, let's cancel out of
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this, next time I create a new document,
I can simply choose from my document
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presets my newly created ePub.
And all the data that I've put inside of
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that New Document window is recorded and
therefore also maintained.
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So, let's create the document by clicking
on Ok.
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This is how my page looks in InDesign,
the normal viewing mode.
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Of course, these are just visual clues,
and are not at all representative of the
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final resolution at which your ePub will
be viewed in an eBook reader.
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You can really use any size document for
your publication.
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My only advice here is to create a
document that makes it easy for you to
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work within.
Just remember that the page attributes
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will get lost upon ePub export, so
whatever is easier for you, you should be
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using here.
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2. Working with TextUnderstanding style mapping| 00:02 |
The secret of a successful ePub export,
is the thorough application of paragraph
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and character styles, throughout the
entire InDesign document.
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So to understand how you're paragraph and
character styles will actually be
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re-purposed in the ePub file format, and
actually be mapped to a cascading style
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sheet, ACSS, maybe it's worth having a
look at the XHTML, the HTML file produced
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for the ePub, and the CSS, the Cascading
Style Sheet that is included in the ePub file.
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Later in this course, you will learn
about how you can access that information
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yourself, for viewing it and even editing
it.
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So to create this example, what we will
do is simply create a text frame here
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inside of my InDesign document, I will
zoom into here, and write a phrase such
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as maybe, this is bold text.
And one thing I want to do here is to
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actually apply a character style to just
the word bold.
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Let's go here to the character styles.
Create a new character style by clicking
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on the the button here.
Opening it by double-clicking on the
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style itself, and then give it a name,
such as bold in this case, and the only
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thing I want to change here is actually
the font style.
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I'm going to go in here and start typing
the word bold and here it is.
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So this is the only thing that is
actually changing, everything else
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remains, only that the font style is now
bold.
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So let's say Okay to this, and this is
now being applied to just that word.
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Very good.
At that point, what I will do is export
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just this little phrase to the ePub
format, and we will have a look at it.
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So file Export for, ePub.
We will go into all of these windows in
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much greater depth at a later stage, so
just bear with me.
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I'm going to save that inside of my
chapter two folder.
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Just make sure to view the ebook after
exporting, and also generate the CSS.
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That's the only things I'd worry about
right now.
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So let's export this, and the file opens
in digital additions, and we can already
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see that, yes, this text now looks bold.
Let's move over into our folder, and you
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see that the ePub file automatically took
the little icon of the Adobe Digital
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additions in my case, but what we want to
do is actually open it with another
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application called Sigil.
So I can control click on it, and choose
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open with Sigil, the latest version, 3.2
in that case.
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So let's open it.
This is my view inside of Sigil, and you
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can see that I see my XHTML file here.
This is bold text, and you can see that,
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in fact, the word bold is actually set in
bold.
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Also, if I twirl open the styles folder,
we see that we have a CSS, a Cascading
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Style Sheet.
So let's have a look at both.
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First of all, let's look at this XHTML
file.
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And one really cool thing about Sigil, is
that you can look at the code.
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So let's look at the code, let's go into
Code View and see what InDesign actually generated.
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So first of all, we see that we have a
lot of HTML descriptions here.
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For example, we have a whole zone up here
called, head with a title, and it picks
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up the title of my document.
And it also links, and this is very, very
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important to understand, it links to a
CSS, which is right here.
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And that CSS, which we will be looking at
in a second, actually defines how the
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text looks inside of my document.
Also, down here, we have a whole part
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called body, and this is actually what we
can view inside of our reader.
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This is where the text actually is, and
we can actually see it here.
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This is, I'm going to select it for you
to see better, this is, and then we have
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the word bold, and then, text.
Perfect.
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The part that's interesting to us here is
this one, span class bold.
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Okay?
And this means that we are applying a
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style to just that word.
A style called, bold.
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So if we move over to our CSS, by double
clicking on it, we see that in fact down
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here we have a CSS definition called,
span bold, and basically what it does it
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puts the font weight to bold.
Okay?
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So all of that information came from our
InDesign document and was brought into
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the ePub.
As an XHTML file, which we have looked at
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right now, and the CSS.
So, the key benefit of CSS, is that the
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file is actually external to the actual
content.
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The various XHTML files that we have
here, and which make up the ePub.
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Meaning that, if you need to make changes
in the formatting of a large book, for
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example, you can do it all in one place.
And all of the documents will be updated
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with your styling changes, as they all
reference back to that one single CSS file.
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Also, if we look at the CSS file a little
bit closer, and look at the other options
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that we have here, we see that there is
quite some things that we can format in
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the XHTML file, and the CSS file.
For example, here, we can define the font
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family, which specifies the font family
for the text as in maybe havetica, or a
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series of font families to allow for
substitution when one family isn't present.
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Or the readers device for example,
doesn't have times or times new roman, or serif.
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Okay?
So we can really define the appearance of type.
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However, remember that font family is not
supported by all readers.
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So, in our case, we will actually be
ignoring that definition up here.
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And then, one that we've already learned
about, down here, font weight bold, we
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can define the font weight of the text.
In that case, we can have it bold, or not bold.
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Font style allows us to define the text
as being italics or not.
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Font size is of course the size of the
characters of your text, of the text
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within the paragraph.
In this case InDesign expresses them in m's.
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But we will also learn that we can define
them in other sizes, for example, in
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pixel sizes, or even percentages.
Line height is the property that
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specifies the line height, or the letting
between lines of text.
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Text decoration is the property which
defines the decoration added to the text.
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For example, underline or strike through.
Then we have the possibility for a font
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variant, which allows us to define
whether text is set in small caps or not.
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Text indent, is the indent of the first
line of each paragraph, and this is also
| | 07:28 |
something we can define, we can do that
in the M measurement unit or even in pixels.
| | 07:37 |
Text alignment, which of course can be
left, center or right, or even justified.
| | 07:42 |
We can also set the color of the text,
and this is something that we will be
| | 07:46 |
looking at later on, but setting the
color of the text can make it very
| | 07:50 |
difficult to read the text on specific
devices.
| | 07:55 |
For example, if a reader of a ebook
chooses to view the text in white on a
| | 07:59 |
black background.
If we actually set the color of the text
| | 08:04 |
to black, which it is in this case, the
devices are not able to actually change
| | 08:08 |
the color of the text, though your user
would find himself with, or herself with
| | 08:12 |
black text on a black background.
Therefore, totally unable to read the text.
| | 08:19 |
And then we can also apply a margin.
The margin properties, that's all the
| | 08:24 |
margins for a paragraph.
The top margin, left, and right, and
| | 08:28 |
bottom margins.
This is, however, not intended as the
| | 08:31 |
margin of the viewing area of the ePub.
The margins of the page, like you would
| | 08:37 |
think in the traditional books.
But it's more an inset of the text within
| | 08:41 |
the margins of the page, and within the
text flow.
| | 08:45 |
Well this is pretty much it.
(LAUGH) These are the properties that we
| | 08:49 |
can actually work with, these are the
very few attributes you can use to format
| | 08:53 |
your text.
However, you need to know that not all of
| | 08:57 |
these attributes work on all Ebook
readers.
| | 09:00 |
So the best way to know what works and
what doesn't, is to test the ePub
| | 09:04 |
extensively on all of the various devices
or applications that we've also been
| | 09:08 |
seeing before, for example Kindle
Previewer, or even Adobe Digital Editions
| | 09:12 |
to see exactly how your book will look.
So, coming back to InDesign, the
| | 09:20 |
important thing that I want to explain
here is that all of the character styles
| | 09:27 |
and paragraph styles that you set in
InDesign will actually carry over to the
| | 09:33 |
ePub, within the CSS file.
| | 09:39 |
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| Importing text and applying character styles| 00:02 |
Just as with any editorial project,
really, a good planning is the key to
| | 00:05 |
your success.
So from a careful analysis of your
| | 00:08 |
content, you will actually be able to
understand what basic styles are needed
| | 00:11 |
to format the text.
And I'm talking about paragraph styles
| | 00:16 |
and character styles.
So, to start working on this, I will
| | 00:20 |
import or place a text file inside of
that InDesign document.
| | 00:24 |
Remember that we created this InDesign
document, the size more or less of the
| | 00:30 |
iPad screen with this live area which is
600 by 800 pixels high, okay?
| | 00:38 |
So to import a text or place a text, we
would go to File > Place, or hit Command-D.
| | 00:46 |
So, let's place the text, and inside of
the Chapter 2 folder of your tutorial
| | 00:50 |
files, you will find a Word Document
which you will be able to import.
| | 00:55 |
And basically, what this is, is the first
nine chapters of Jules Verne's Around the
| | 01:00 |
World in Eighty Days.
So, let's select this, show also the
| | 01:05 |
import options and open that document.
Basically, in this case, I want to
| | 01:10 |
preserve the styles and the formatting of
the texts, because I know that inside of
| | 01:14 |
that text I do have some italics and some
bold text and I want to preserve that.
| | 01:21 |
This is the first thing I'm actually
going to change inside of InDesign.
| | 01:25 |
Let us have a look.
Let's import this text.
| | 01:28 |
There's a problem with the font that is
missing, that was present in the Word Document.
| | 01:34 |
But by now, you have understood that
there is no really a font problem with
| | 01:38 |
EPUB, because fonts will be overwritten
most of the time.
| | 01:43 |
So, in our EPUB which we will be tweaking
at a later stage, we'll actually remove
| | 01:47 |
all the font information, so we don't
really care that a font is missing.
| | 01:51 |
So let's say OK to this and place the
text.
| | 01:55 |
My Place gone, now, has the text within
it.
| | 01:58 |
And as soon as I get close to the edge
here, to my margin, you see our little
| | 02:02 |
icon getting white.
And this is InDesign telling me that if I
| | 02:06 |
click here, the text frame will take the
space of this 600 by 800 frame here.
| | 02:12 |
And if I press the shift button, you'll
see the little icon will change to a
| | 02:17 |
snakey little arrow.
And if I click now, InDesign will create
| | 02:23 |
as many pages as needed to actually put
that text inside of my document.
| | 02:31 |
Let's zoom in a second.
We'll see that we have a title page here
| | 02:36 |
and then we have a chapter description,
and we even have some italic text and
| | 02:40 |
some bold text up here.
And when we go down, we see that this
| | 02:46 |
text in fact is a single flow of text
with all chapters together.
| | 02:52 |
To see that even clearer, we can go to
View > Extras > Show the Text Threads.
| | 03:00 |
At that point, if I select any of the
text frames here you will see that.
| | 03:04 |
All these text frames are threaded
together in one, clean flow of text, and
| | 03:10 |
this is exactly what we need for EPUB.
So, let's start cleaning up these styles.
| | 03:17 |
As you can notice, this bold is simply
applied by hand, simply by applying a
| | 03:22 |
bold to the helvetica here, or an italic,
an oblique, to the helvetica here.
| | 03:28 |
So the first thing we will do is to
actually change those into character styles.
| | 03:33 |
I'm going to click out of the text frame
and create a new character style, which
| | 03:38 |
I'm going to call Bold.
Okay?
| | 03:43 |
And the only thing I will change is in
the basic character formats and set the
| | 03:47 |
font style to bold.
Okay, perfect.
| | 03:52 |
The next style we need is the italic.
And we're not going to base it on bold,
| | 03:58 |
we're going to base it on no other text
style.
| | 04:02 |
And the basic character format.
I'm going to change the font style to italic.
| | 04:07 |
Perfect.
Okay, so now we have our two character
| | 04:11 |
styles, which we will use to actually
define these areas of text that are, in
| | 04:15 |
fact, in bold or italic.
Because, if I export that text as is
| | 04:21 |
right now, all of these would be lost,
because there is nothing to signal to
| | 04:26 |
InDesign that this is actually diversely
formatted.
| | 04:31 |
Although, in InDesign CS5, there is now a
way to also export the text formatted by
| | 04:36 |
hand or with text overrides as formatting
overrides, as they are called.
| | 04:44 |
I really prefer to give each part of my
eBook a definition.
| | 04:49 |
In this case, bold and italic.
Also remember that InDesign styles will
| | 04:54 |
be mapped to CSS styles, so it's a good
ideal to give them short names.
| | 05:01 |
Because these definitions will be
repeated many, many times within the
| | 05:04 |
HTML, or XHTML files within the EPUB.
So if you make them short, you will
| | 05:09 |
actually optimize the amount of
descriptive text needed.
| | 05:13 |
For example, if you call your paragraph
or character style, my body text with no
| | 05:17 |
formatting, the CSS definition will be
exactly that, my body text with no formatting.
| | 05:24 |
With a little minus signs between each of
the words.
| | 05:28 |
And these are 31 characters.
Multiplied by the number of body text
| | 05:31 |
paragraphs you have in your publication,
that makes a whole bunch of unnecessary characters.
| | 05:37 |
So, why not just call it bold, italic,
body.
| | 05:41 |
Also be aware that in an EPUB file,
because it is a standard, there is also a
| | 05:46 |
limit to the file size, and that limit is
set to 300 kilobyte.
| | 05:52 |
So, 300 kilobyte for each individual
XHTML file inside of the EPUB, so
| | 05:57 |
optimizing style names can actually
contribute to not reaching that limit.
| | 06:03 |
So, learn to name your styles with short
words, you can even make them shorter
| | 06:09 |
like ital or bol, BO or just B, you know?
Just to make sure that, you know, you
| | 06:15 |
keep them very, very small.
So, the next thing we will do here, is of
| | 06:19 |
course, find all the instances of bold
text, and oblique text here, because this
| | 06:23 |
is Helvetica-Oblique, and transform those
into bold and italic character styles.
| | 06:30 |
To do that, we're going to hit Command-F,
and what we want to find is actually here
| | 06:35 |
in the format.
So we want to find a format called bold,
| | 06:42 |
font style bold, okay?
And replace that to another format which
| | 06:49 |
is the character style that we've just
created called Bold, okay?
| | 06:55 |
So, we said, okay here, and we just say,
change all.
| | 06:59 |
Nine replacements, in fact, we have nine
chapters and only the chapter headers
| | 07:03 |
have that bold appearance.
And the second thing we want to do of
| | 07:07 |
course is to find the italics.
We have many more here inside of the text.
| | 07:13 |
So we will look for the italic, in that
case, it's not called italic, but
| | 07:18 |
oblique, okay?
Perfect.
| | 07:21 |
And in the change format, we will
actually choose Italic.
| | 07:26 |
Say OK to that and change all.
Here, we have 46 placements, perfect, and
| | 07:31 |
we're done with that.
At that point, when I select text that is
| | 07:35 |
in italic, we see that in fact, we have a
character style that has been applied and
| | 07:39 |
the same thing goes for both text of
course.
| | 07:44 |
Okay.
So now we've imported some text and we've
| | 07:47 |
fixed the problems tied to character
styles.
| | 07:52 |
All the text within paragraphs has now
been formatted as needed for the EPUB
| | 07:57 |
export, and remember, because all these
styles will be exported as CSS styles.
| | 08:04 |
We will also have little tags that say,
this is italic from here to here within
| | 08:10 |
the XHTMl file.
But we'll have a closer look at that
| | 08:16 |
later on.
| | 08:17 |
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| Adding paragraph styles| 00:01 |
So now that we've imported the text and
set some character styles for the bold
| | 00:06 |
and italic text inside of our document
here the next thing we need to do is to
| | 00:10 |
actually create the necessary paragraph
styles to format that text.
| | 00:16 |
And let's zoom out a little bit, let's
look at the whole page.
| | 00:20 |
One thing that I would like to have here,
and remember that this page is the size
| | 00:25 |
in pixels of the iPad screen, and that
the text frame here is the size of what
| | 00:29 |
the text may look like, I underline the
word, may look like inside of an eBook
| | 00:33 |
reader on the iPad, within the margins.
So of course here there's not a whole lot
| | 00:42 |
we can see.
All the text is being greeked out.
| | 00:45 |
So let's fix that for a second.
Let's look at the paragraph styles.
| | 00:49 |
And we see that we have a default
paragraph style that has been imported
| | 00:52 |
with the word document that we've just
imported a second ago.
| | 00:57 |
So, what we need to do is to first create
a style for the body of text.
| | 01:03 |
So, I'm going to do that simply by
clicking on Create New Style in the
| | 01:07 |
Paragraph Styles panel.
Okay.
| | 01:10 |
And I'm going to call it Body.
Remember to keep the names of your styles
| | 01:15 |
very short.
I call it Body, because this is the body
| | 01:19 |
text of my document and this is also
something that I would like to see inside
| | 01:23 |
of the CSS code that will be generated
when exported to ePub.
| | 01:30 |
So let's say okay to this, let's call the
style name Body.
| | 01:33 |
It's based on no paragraph style and the
only basic character formats that I'm
| | 01:37 |
going to change is actually the size of
it.
| | 01:41 |
Because I want to see it a little bit
better here on my screen.
| | 01:44 |
So let's pump up the size to maybe
something like 18 pixels.
| | 01:48 |
You see?
Bear in mind that these are pixels now
| | 01:50 |
inside of InDesign.
That's because it's a document that was
| | 01:55 |
created with the intent for web.
And let's say that the body text is regular.
| | 02:02 |
Okay, 18 point.
The lettering here is automatic and we've
| | 02:06 |
already seen that lettering gets exported
in another unit of measurement, which is
| | 02:10 |
called m.
But this is also something that we will
| | 02:14 |
then be able to change in the CSS file.
And let's look at any other advanced
| | 02:20 |
character formats, okay, the language is
important, this will be exported, and I
| | 02:24 |
will show you that later on as well.
And in our case, we want this to be
| | 02:30 |
English, USA so let's select this.
And that's basically all I want inside of
| | 02:36 |
my style.
So lets select the whole text here,
| | 02:39 |
select all, and apply body text to it.
Okay, so now I already see the text
| | 02:45 |
bigger on my screen, and I start getting
the idea of how it may look inside of an
| | 02:49 |
eBook reader.
We can now take the default style, and
| | 02:55 |
throw it away.
Perfect.
| | 02:58 |
Next styles we need, of course, is the
chapter header.
| | 03:01 |
And the chapter description.
Each chapter in this book, and this
| | 03:05 |
specific book, which is Jules Verne's
Around the World in Eighty Days, Actually
| | 03:09 |
has this chapter name, Chapter 1, and
then a description.
| | 03:14 |
If we move down inside of our flow of
text, and you see I'm just scrolling down
| | 03:18 |
now and this is so easy, okay.
This is why I chose not to have left and
| | 03:23 |
right pages to do that, even though I
could have.
| | 03:27 |
But it's much, much easier to actually
just scroll down the text as if it were.
| | 03:32 |
A scroll of information from top to
bottom.
| | 03:35 |
Okay.
Chapter two in which (UNKNOWN) is
| | 03:37 |
convinced okay, so we need a specific
style for that.
| | 03:42 |
And one very important style will be the
chapter description here.
| | 03:46 |
Chapter one because this we will be using
at a later stage when we export to ePub
| | 03:52 |
to actually create a single HTML file for
each one of those chapters.
| | 03:59 |
So, let's do that for a second.
Let's select the text here, and inside of
| | 04:03 |
the paragraph style, I'm going to create
a new style.
| | 04:07 |
And this style I'm going to call header
one, H1, okay, because this is the
| | 04:11 |
shortest way for me to actually write it
here, and it's easy for me to remember
| | 04:16 |
when I have to apply it inside of my
text.
| | 04:21 |
So, let's say Header 1.
Let's go to the basic characters, and
| | 04:25 |
maybe this I want to be slightly bigger,
like maybe 24 pixels.
| | 04:29 |
Remember that all of these sizes have
absolutely no meaning because these will
| | 04:33 |
be overwritten once we are in the ePub.
So, the only thing They are important
| | 04:39 |
for, is actually for you to be able to
lay out the document in such a way, that
| | 04:43 |
is easy for you.
So lets see on other few things here, the
| | 04:49 |
font style is bold, okay.
Let's go advanced character formats, it's
| | 04:54 |
still English USA.
That's because we're actually basing this
| | 04:58 |
on the body paragraph style.
And that's basically it.
| | 05:02 |
So let's say OK to this, and it's already
formatted.
| | 05:06 |
Then what we want to do is take the
second line of text here and make a new
| | 05:10 |
style and call that Header 2, okay,
because this is the second level of the title.
| | 05:16 |
So let's say OK to this.
Actually, before we do that let's just
| | 05:20 |
check out that it is in bold and that the
size is 18, okay.
| | 05:26 |
Perfect.
Now we've formatted those and we can
| | 05:29 |
continue working, applying these exact
same styles to other parts of the text.
| | 05:34 |
But there's something else that I want to
do here.
| | 05:37 |
For example, I would like there to be
some space after the header two and the
| | 05:41 |
beginning of the text.
So, what I would do is simply select my
| | 05:47 |
style here.
Double-click on it and under indents and
| | 05:51 |
spacing I could say space after, maybe
something like 20 pixels, and if I click
| | 05:56 |
on preview we see what happens here.
Okay.
| | 06:01 |
We can even get it some more here, let's
make it 40 pixels, okay.
| | 06:05 |
So we have a good separation between the
title and the beginning of the text.
| | 06:10 |
Let's say okay to this.
And also maybe what I want here is the
| | 06:14 |
titles to be actually centered.
So I can do that by double-clicking on
| | 06:18 |
header 1 here.
I would go to indent and spacing, choose
| | 06:22 |
left or center, in that case I want the
title to be centered, okay, and then
| | 06:27 |
header 2, what I can do is also here,
indent and spacing, and center that.
| | 06:34 |
Okay.
I could have actually based header two on
| | 06:36 |
header one but this is a bit more complex
styling.
| | 06:41 |
But now we already start to have the
feeling of our book.
| | 06:44 |
And basically what I want to do also is
get rid of all of the text here before
| | 06:48 |
because I want the book to start with
chapter one and this little descriptive
| | 06:52 |
text here and then my body text.
Another thing we can do of course to help
| | 06:59 |
our readers read the text better is to
change the body copy as well.
| | 07:05 |
For example I can go into indents and
spacing and say space after the body text
| | 07:10 |
and add maybe 5 pixels to have some sort
of a separation here or even 10 pixels.
| | 07:17 |
And then, I can also say that the first
line indent is ten pixels, okay, so that
| | 07:22 |
each paragraph starts with an indentation
here.
| | 07:28 |
But because I chose to separate the
different paragraphs with a space after,
| | 07:33 |
I can also not Indent the first line at
all.
| | 07:38 |
So let's put that back to zero and scroll
down the text, okay?
| | 07:43 |
Because now, we're simply going to say
okay to this paragraph style and move
| | 07:49 |
down, and start also to format the
remaining chapters.
| | 07:55 |
So, I'm simply going to put my cursor
here in chapter two, this is header 1,
| | 07:59 |
header 2.
Okay.
| | 08:02 |
Let's move on.
And here we go.
| | 08:06 |
Chapter 3, header 1, header 2 and so on
for all of the 9 chapters inside of that book.
| | 08:14 |
So if I zoom out now, double-clicking on
the zoom tool or the little hand tool
| | 08:18 |
here You see, I am starting to get a real
feeling of how that text will actually be
| | 08:23 |
laid out inside of my ePub.
My advice here is to try to keep the list
| | 08:29 |
of styles to be used inside of the ePub
as small as possible, making it easier to
| | 08:33 |
manage once you tweak the CSS file of the
ePub, for example.
| | 08:39 |
And remember, that there is not a whole
lot of styling that carries over in an
| | 08:43 |
ePub anyway.
So, with N design CS5, you can actually
| | 08:46 |
preserve local overrides, such as the
bold and the italic, and bold italic when
| | 08:50 |
you export to ePub.
Bu these local overrides will be exported
| | 08:56 |
as span.nostyleoverride1 and
spannostyleoverride.2, and so forth
| | 09:01 |
inside of the CSS file.
So descriptions like that take much more
| | 09:07 |
space than necessary and are not very
descriptive when you need to change the
| | 09:11 |
CSS itself.
So my advice is to leave nothing in your
| | 09:15 |
text unformatted always use actual styles
in you electronic publications.
| | 09:20 |
If you want you can locally format bold,
bold italic and italic by hand but before
| | 09:25 |
you export make sure to actually find and
replace those overrides with actual
| | 09:29 |
character style.
It will make it much, much easier and
| | 09:34 |
cleaner to work with the CSS file.
Also, to visually check if your document
| | 09:40 |
uses the basic paragraph style or the
body paragraph style, what you can do is
| | 09:45 |
go to Edit and actually say Edit in Story
Editor.
| | 09:51 |
And if we move up here, we actually see
the paragraph styles that have been
| | 09:56 |
applied to the various parts of the text.
So as you scroll down, and again here
| | 10:02 |
inside of the Story Editor, we have this
image of a single flow of text.
| | 10:07 |
So this is also a good way to look at
your ePub.
| | 10:10 |
But in this case, it's interesting to see
that in fact, I have applied applied all
| | 10:14 |
those styles correctly.
Okay, body body body, and we go down, and
| | 10:18 |
then suddenly we will come to chapter 2.
Header 1, header 2, body, okay?
| | 10:23 |
The sequence is correct.
So just by scrolling your text and
| | 10:27 |
looking at it inside of a story editor
makes it much much easier To actually
| | 10:31 |
work with.
There is one thing you need to be aware
| | 10:34 |
of though.
If you have used nested style or grep
| | 10:37 |
styles to format text in your InDesign
document, the formatting they define is
| | 10:41 |
not preserved in the ePub file.
It is very important to apply actually
| | 10:47 |
character styles to any text that is
formatted with either a nested style or a
| | 10:51 |
grep style in InDesign.
| | 10:54 |
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| The importance of level 1 entries| 00:02 |
Level one entries are the title of your
chapters, or any logical break.
| | 00:06 |
In this publication, I named the style
applied to chapter titles H1, or Header
| | 00:11 |
1, to make it easier to spot in the
paragraph styles panel here.
| | 00:16 |
Header 1, Header 2, and the body text.
The important thing here is to remember
| | 00:21 |
this style can later be used to
automatically create a table of contents
| | 00:25 |
for the EPUB.
But it will also enable a feature in the
| | 00:29 |
EPUB Export dialog window called use
first level talk entries as chapter breaks.
| | 00:36 |
This is important especially in documents
such as this one.
| | 00:40 |
This in one single InDesign document with
9 chapters of the book.
| | 00:46 |
And basically, what we want in the EPUB
is a single file for each chapter.
| | 00:52 |
And by applying styles accordingly, like
Header 1 to Chapter 1, and Header 1 to
| | 00:57 |
Chapter 2, let's just move down here a
second, okay.
| | 01:02 |
Let's just go check here.
Chapter 2 is Header 1.
| | 01:05 |
This long file will then be automatically
divided in one file per chapter.
| | 01:14 |
And this is actually very, very important
to keep the file sizes smaller for each
| | 01:18 |
XHTML file.
Remember that there is a limit of 300
| | 01:22 |
kilobyte per file, so this division of
content will be very important at a later stage.
| | 01:30 |
So, remember that applying the styles
correctly will enable you to create the
| | 01:34 |
table of contents automatically.
And also allow InDesign to divide a long
| | 01:41 |
document into a series of shorter ones.
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| Working with notes| 00:00 |
In InDesign you can create or manage
footnotes that come from a Word document,
| | 00:05 |
for example.
These footnotes will be exported as
| | 00:10 |
endnotes in the ePub.
Depending on how you have structured your
| | 00:14 |
document, the footnotes will actually
appear either as endnotes in a chapter or
| | 00:18 |
at the very end of your story or
publication.
| | 00:22 |
So, the scenarios can be two.
You have a single InDesign document, such
| | 00:27 |
as the one we are working on here, where
we have nine chapters, all within a
| | 00:31 |
single document.
In that case, the endnotes will be placed
| | 00:36 |
at the bottom of the very last page of
the document, once it's exported.
| | 00:42 |
The second scenario is, you are working
with single InDesign files for each chapter.
| | 00:48 |
And using the InDesign book panel to
actually put all the chapters together.
| | 00:52 |
In that case, if you have footnotes,
which will then be transformed to
| | 00:55 |
endnotes, these will be placed at the end
of each chapter or logical section inside
| | 01:00 |
of your structure.
So, depending on how many footnotes you
| | 01:05 |
have in your content, think about the
choices you have.
| | 01:08 |
You can either work in a single document
and have all of the footnotes at the very end.
| | 01:14 |
Or work on more than one document and put
them together in the InDesign Book panel,
| | 01:18 |
and have the endnotes placed at the end
of their respective chapters.
| | 01:24 |
Basically, what happens is that InDesign,
we automatically create a hyperlink from
| | 01:28 |
the footnote reference number down to the
footnote text and back.
| | 01:33 |
So, let's create one here.
Let's say that we need a little footnote
| | 01:36 |
here to explain who Mister Phileas Fogg
is.
| | 01:40 |
So, under the Type menu, I will choose
Insert Footnote.
| | 01:43 |
And that will be automatically brought to
the end of my page here.
| | 01:48 |
We're still on the first page.
And I'm going to write my footnote, the
| | 01:54 |
hero of the story, okay.
And then, we can move back and we see,
| | 01:59 |
yes, we have little number one here and
at the bottom of the page.
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Since it's a footnote, we have the
description of that footnote itself.
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Okay.
So, lets export this for a second.
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File, Export for, ePub.
And basically, what I want to do is just
| | 02:16 |
to save it, so you guys can also look at
the file that is saved inside the chapter
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2 folder.
Let's call this footnotes.
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Okay.
And Save that.
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Replace.
And basically, what I want is only to
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view the Ebook after exporting.
Okay?
| | 02:35 |
So that it opens in an Ebook Viewer, so
that I can actually see how that footnote works.
| | 02:40 |
Now, it automatically opens in Sigil,
which is my ePub Editing Software.
| | 02:46 |
But it's also a very good viewer.
And as you can see, I have my formatted
| | 02:51 |
text here, and a hyperlink with a little
number 1.
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If I click on it, and pay attention to
the cursor here on the right side, if I
| | 02:59 |
click on it, boom, we go to the very
bottom of the document.
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Nine chapters later.
And here's my footnote, and if I click
| | 03:08 |
back on it, we move back to the top of
the document, where that footnote was
| | 03:12 |
actually inserted.
So, this is a first example of how you
| | 03:17 |
can add interactivity, in this case, with
footnotes within an ePub.
| | 03:22 |
And we will see later how you can
actually add other types of hyperlinks
| | 03:26 |
and cross references inside of an
InDesign file, and then export that to
| | 03:30 |
the ePub.
There's a whole lot of interaction with
| | 03:36 |
hyperlinks that can be created inside of
InDesign.
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| Working with tables| 00:02 |
Tables created in InDesign are supported
in most ebook readers although not all of
| | 00:06 |
the readers represent them the same way.
And this can be a real challenge for
| | 00:11 |
conveying over tabular information, very
complex tables might not carry over at
| | 00:15 |
all to the ePub.
So let's have a look at this document here.
| | 00:19 |
Open the Working with Text Table InDesign
document, and if we move down to Chapter
| | 00:25 |
three, let's see if we can find it
rapidly, Chapter two and down here
| | 00:29 |
Chapter three, and there's a whole
section with text that has tabular data
| | 00:34 |
in it.
Here, here we go.
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Okay, this is actually the list that
Phileas Fogg writes up to explain how he
| | 00:44 |
will travel around the world in 80 days.
So we can select that tower of text, like
| | 00:51 |
this, and under the Table menu, I will
say convert text to table.
| | 00:58 |
Okay, InDesign asks me, what the column
separator is and in this case it is
| | 01:03 |
indeed a tab.
And the row separator is a paragraph.
| | 01:08 |
So let's say okay to this, and now we
have the table.
| | 01:13 |
We can also go in here and make the
table.
| | 01:15 |
A little bit more adaptive to the
content, so let's say that we want these
| | 01:19 |
columns here a bit shorter like this, and
let's make it like this, and make this
| | 01:24 |
one here longer, the one with the text.
Also, what I can do, for example, is
| | 01:31 |
maybe take this row over down here and
select a Fill for that row, let's take a
| | 01:37 |
Cyan for example, all right?
So we've actually formatted the table in
| | 01:44 |
such a way that it has a black outline,
okay in the cells and a Cyan bottom row
| | 01:49 |
with a total of the days that it would
take to travel around the world.
| | 01:57 |
Okay, so let's see how this table looks
in Sigil, for example.
| | 02:01 |
So we're going to go to File > Export for
> ePub, and we're going to save that as
| | 02:06 |
working with text tables.epub, perfect.
Save that, and the only thing we care
| | 02:13 |
about right now is to view the ebook
after exporting.
| | 02:18 |
So let's export this.
Sigil opens and here is my document.
| | 02:24 |
Let's move down to chapter three, chapter
two, we just passed it.
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Okay, Chapter three, here we go.
And we should find the table somewhere
| | 02:35 |
here, okay?
So as you can see, the table is indeed
| | 02:38 |
represented with the various rows and the
three columns but we've lost all of it's formatting.
| | 02:46 |
So, how can we work around that?
There's actually a very, very easy way to
| | 02:51 |
do it.
Let's go back toInDesign and what I will
| | 02:55 |
do is simply select the Table.
Copy the Table, okay, and put it inside
| | 03:01 |
of a New Text Frame.
Okay, lets just paste the table here, and
| | 03:07 |
what I will do is, create a text frame
that, is just the size of the table, like so.
| | 03:15 |
All right, so that we see the whole entire
table.
| | 03:18 |
At that point, I will go to File > Export
and Choose an Image format for that
| | 03:22 |
specific table.
So let's choose the JPEG for example,
| | 03:27 |
that's an Image format, and save it as
Working with Text Table, JPEG, save.
| | 03:38 |
And we're going to export just the
selection here, okay?
| | 03:43 |
And Choose a high quality for the table
because I want to have the text to be
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very legible.
The resolution we will leave at 72 dpi
| | 03:52 |
because we are working for ePub which is
very like a webpage, so this is the
| | 03:57 |
resolution we need.
And I don't need to imbed the color profile.
| | 04:03 |
Color profiles can take up more space
then needed inside of image files.
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And I'm going to anti-alias it.
So export this, we're done.
| | 04:12 |
Now I can delete that table and as we
will learn later on about placing
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graphics, this is exactly what we're
going to do here.
| | 04:21 |
So I'm going to go to File > Place, go to
my folder here, and find the JPEG that
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I've just created, Working with Tables,
all right?
| | 04:32 |
So let's open this.
Place it inside of a file, cut it out of
| | 04:36 |
here, all right, and delete the frame that
was created by InDesign.
| | 04:42 |
Go into the text, like so, delete the
table, and, paste that new image in there.
| | 04:49 |
So I have the exact same table that I had
formatted in InDesign, but as an image.
| | 04:56 |
If I export this as an ePub, we will see
what happens.
| | 05:00 |
File, export for, ePub, and we're going
to call that two.
| | 05:04 |
Actually, let's give it another name like
JPEG, like this.
| | 05:09 |
Okay?
Table as a JPEG.
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Let's save this.
View the ebook after exporting.
| | 05:15 |
Let's export this.
And back in Sigil, we're simply going to
| | 05:20 |
scroll down to the area where that table
was being shown and we will see that this
| | 05:25 |
table has in fact been imported as an
image, okay.
| | 05:30 |
So that's a cool way to actually display
title data in an ePub.
| | 05:35 |
Another thing that we could do, and this
is also an interesting technique.
| | 05:39 |
Let's move back to InDesign is actually
take the table again, like this.
| | 05:45 |
Let's take the Type tool, select the
whole table, like so, Copy.
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And paste it into a new text frame here,
paste, and the reason I'm doing it is
| | 05:54 |
because I need to know the size of the
text frame, all right, so let's say that
| | 06:00 |
we're going to put the text frame here
and simply have it go around the table.
| | 06:09 |
Another interesting technique that we can
use to actually display tables is to
| | 06:13 |
actually link to an InDesign document.
So I'm going to Cmd+Z here to get back to
| | 06:19 |
my textual version of the table, all
right, so that I have my table as text
| | 06:24 |
again, very good.
I'm going to select it, copy it and paste
| | 06:31 |
it inside of a new text frame, all right?
I'm doing that because it is important
| | 06:37 |
for me to know the exact size of that
table.
| | 06:41 |
By double-clicking on the corner down
here, you see that the text frame
| | 06:44 |
automatically wraps around the table.
All right, so if we go up here we see
| | 06:49 |
that it has a width of 599,5 pixels,
which is basically 600 pixels, by 212.
| | 06:56 |
So let's make that 213.
Let's copy this, make a new InDesign document.
| | 07:04 |
Let's make it for web, and we're going to
make it a width of 600 pixels by 213 pixels.
| | 07:13 |
Okay.
All right?
| | 07:15 |
So, in this case, the margin that we have
down here wouldn't fit inside of that document.
| | 07:20 |
So what we need to do is just to set the
margins to zero, okay?
| | 07:24 |
All of the margins to zero.
Perfect.
| | 07:26 |
Let's create a new document and paste the
table in there.
| | 07:31 |
At that point I will go here under file,
and save that document inside of my
| | 07:36 |
folder and I'm simply going to call it
table InDesign.
| | 07:41 |
Okay.
And save this, move back to my document
| | 07:45 |
that needs the table to be embedded.
Let's delete this part here.
| | 07:51 |
Go back into the text and exactly like we
did with the image, what I'm going to do
| | 07:56 |
is place the InDesign document.
File, Place, we're going to Choose the
| | 08:03 |
table InDesign document that we've just
created.
| | 08:08 |
Open that, and place it here, perfect.
Now, what I will do is copy that link and
| | 08:15 |
place it by double-clicking in my text,
and pasting it.
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Very good.
At that point what we have here is in
| | 08:24 |
fact a link, and if we look inside of the
links panel we're not linking to an image
| | 08:29 |
file, but we are linking to an InDesign
file.
| | 08:34 |
The cool thing is that, InDesign, upon
the ePub export, will actually export
| | 08:38 |
this as an image.
But the real benefit of that is that if I
| | 08:43 |
Ctrl click on it, I can say that I need
to Edit the original.
| | 08:48 |
And by editing the original, the InDesign
file will open, and the text is of
| | 08:54 |
course, live.
If by any chance I need to, for example,
| | 08:59 |
force these words here to a second row, I
can do so.
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Save the file, move back to my InDesign
document and you will see that this has
| | 09:08 |
already been updated.
Really, really cool technique here.
| | 09:13 |
So, let's export this again.
File, export for ePub and we're going to
| | 09:19 |
call it, INDD, ePub, because we are
exporting an InDesign document within an
| | 09:24 |
InDesign document, and lets save this.
We want to view the ebook after
| | 09:31 |
exporting, and export.
Here we go, this is the view in Sigil
| | 09:36 |
again, so lets just scroll down to the
part where we have the table.
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And you will see that InDesign has
automatically converted this linked
| | 09:48 |
InDesign file into an image.
So basically, we've obtained the exact
| | 09:53 |
same result that we did with an image.
So there's two ways that you can actually
| | 09:59 |
include tables in an ePub.
Just to make sure it looks the same on
| | 10:04 |
every single reader.
I'm not saying that some readers don't
| | 10:08 |
support tables, but what I'm saying is
that not all of them do.
| | 10:12 |
So what we need to do is actually design
for the common lowest nominator, and in
| | 10:15 |
this case what I've shown is two
techniques.
| | 10:19 |
One is to export the table as an image
and then re-import into InDesign or,
| | 10:24 |
which gives you more flexibility to
create new InDesign document with just
| | 10:28 |
the table.
And then, re-import that, place that
| | 10:33 |
document, that InDesign document inside
of your epublication and then export that.
| | 10:40 |
But the result is exactly the same.
An image version of the table.
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| Defining vertical space| 00:00 |
The vertical space you define above or
under or on the sides of your paragraphs
| | 00:05 |
will actually be honored in most eBook
readers.
| | 00:10 |
So what we've done in this document, if
we go back to the paragraph styles over
| | 00:13 |
here, we see that we have the paragraph
style for the body text.
| | 00:18 |
If I double-click on it I can reopen it.
And basically what I've done here is to
| | 00:23 |
add a space after of 10 pixels, okay?
If we go into the Indents and Spacing
| | 00:29 |
panel here, we see that we can give a
left indent, a first line indent, a right
| | 00:35 |
indent, a last line indent, a space
before and a space after.
| | 00:42 |
The one that's more important to us right
now, I guess, is the space before and the
| | 00:47 |
space after.
So that we can effectively separate one
| | 00:51 |
paragraph from the other to give a visual
clue to our readers as to where a
| | 00:55 |
paragraph actually starts.
In the CSS file that gets generated from
| | 01:01 |
InDesign based on that space before and
space after, we will have CSS definition
| | 01:07 |
called margin.
With a top, right, bottom, and left value.
| | 01:14 |
So let's have a quick look at that.
Let's just say OK to this, File > Export
| | 01:20 |
For > EPUB, and we're going to save that
as.
| | 01:25 |
Working with text, space, ePub.
So let's save this, and the only thing we
| | 01:31 |
need to do really is to view the eBook
after exporting.
| | 01:36 |
We are going to export it, and once this
is done, Sigil will automatically open.
| | 01:42 |
And what I can see here is that very much
like my InDesign document I have the
| | 01:46 |
space between the paragraphs, and this is
something that we can see inside of the styles.
| | 01:54 |
In the template.css, so let's open this.
And if we move down to the body tag of my
| | 02:00 |
CSS we see that we have in fact a margin
value.
| | 02:06 |
And these margins have been transformed
into an N value, but in this CSS as we'll
| | 02:12 |
learn later on we can actually change
those values.
| | 02:19 |
I can also give an indent.
For example here, this last value here is
| | 02:23 |
the indent of the text from the left.
So I could say, indent the text ten
| | 02:29 |
pixels like so.
And if I move back working with table
| | 02:34 |
text here, we see that in fact I have
slightly indented my text by ten pixels, all right?
| | 02:42 |
So this is pretty cool to remember that
you know, all the things that we say here
| | 02:46 |
in our paragraph styles, such as the
space before and the space after, will
| | 02:50 |
actually be honored in the eBook reader.
So that's a really good way to actually
| | 02:56 |
space the text in InDesign.
Also, we'll see when we work with
| | 03:01 |
graphics, this is something that we will
be using extensively to space images from
| | 03:07 |
the text above, from the caption, and the
text below.
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|
3. Creating Hyperlinks and Cross-ReferencesAdding hyperlinks| 00:02 |
Think of your EPUB as a website.
The purpose of which is actually to make
| | 00:07 |
it easier for your user, or your reader
to browse through the information you provide.
| | 00:12 |
Hyperlinks are a major contributor to the
added value of your content.
| | 00:16 |
For creating links within the document
itself, I recommend using cross
| | 00:20 |
references, as described in the next
part.
| | 00:23 |
But to create a new hyperlink to a
webpage, for example, all you need to do
| | 00:27 |
is to select the words inside of your
text and Click on the Create New
| | 00:30 |
Hyperlink button, which we have down
here.
| | 00:35 |
So, let's do that for a second.
Let's say that we need to actually link
| | 00:39 |
Saville Row to a webpage.
To do that, I will simply open the Create
| | 00:45 |
New Hyperlink window here, and in the new
hyperlink window, I can choose from
| | 00:50 |
various types of links: a URL, a file, an
e-mail, a specific page, a text anchor,
| | 00:56 |
or a shared destination.
In that case I want to link to a URL.
| | 01:05 |
So let's say www.sevillerow.co.uk for
example.
| | 01:14 |
If I want the URL to be shared, I can
check this button here.
| | 01:19 |
Share hyperlink destination.
Basically what this will do is that, I
| | 01:24 |
can then reuse that same URL in different
parts of my document.
| | 01:30 |
And if by chance I need to change the
address from .co.uk to something like
| | 01:35 |
com, all of the URLs will be changed
automatically.
| | 01:41 |
Another interesting thing I can do here
is to actually apply a character style,
| | 01:45 |
to the link I have just created.
So let's say this, for example.
| | 01:49 |
And as you can see, I can choose from any
of the character styles that I have
| | 01:53 |
created in my Character Styles panel.
In our case, we've only created Bold and
| | 01:59 |
Italic yet, and I could choose those from
here.
| | 02:03 |
But I'm not going to do that because,
most of my hyperlinks will actually be
| | 02:07 |
exported in the EPUB and be previewed as
live hyperlinks.
| | 02:12 |
And that means they're mostly going to to be
blue with maybe a blue underline, to tell
| | 02:17 |
the reader that this is, in fact, a
hyperlink.
| | 02:22 |
Another interesting thing I do in my
EPUBs, is to actually change the
| | 02:26 |
appearance of the hyperlink.
In this case I want there to be a visible
| | 02:32 |
rectangle with no highlight, with a thing
width and may be color.
| | 02:38 |
So let's chose blue for example.
And a solid color around the hyperlink.
| | 02:45 |
And you can already see it here on my
page as it appears.
| | 02:48 |
Why do I do that, you may ask.
Well, first, this visible rectangle will
| | 02:54 |
not export to the EPUB.
And second, this visible rectangle
| | 02:58 |
actually helps me to spot hyperlinks
inside of my document.
| | 03:04 |
So as I scroll my document, I can very,
very quickly spot hyperlinks within the text.
| | 03:10 |
So, let's create another quick hyperlink
here, Phileas Fogg for example, new
| | 03:15 |
hyperlink and this I'm going to make an
email.
| | 03:20 |
And I'm going to say,
phileasfogg@gmail.com because that's
| | 03:25 |
where Phileas Fogg would have his email.
And then I can even put a subject line in
| | 03:35 |
it, such as email sent from the ebook.
All right?
| | 03:42 |
So that, the subject line automatically
gets added inside of the subject line in
| | 03:47 |
the email client that the user may use.
In that case also I can add a charater style.
| | 03:54 |
And in this case, maybe I want the
visible rectangle to be another color.
| | 03:58 |
So let's say yellow for emails for
example.
| | 04:02 |
So let, let's say okay do this, and here
we are.
| | 04:05 |
We have already created two hyper links
inside of this document.
| | 04:10 |
Now there's one thing you should know.
Some URLs, especially those that come
| | 04:15 |
with an ampersand, will actually cause
the EPUB export to fail, all right?
| | 04:21 |
So if you copy and paste a URL from a
website, and it makes your EPUB export
| | 04:25 |
fail, just think to look for an ampersand
in the URL.
| | 04:30 |
And if that does happen, my advice here
is to use one of the URL shorteners that
| | 04:36 |
are available on the Web.
Such as, maybe, tinyurl.com or Google,
| | 04:42 |
goo.gl, to create a new one, a shorter
one.
| | 04:46 |
And in any case, it's a very good idea to
actually shorten all URLs, to minimize
| | 04:50 |
the code that will be needed to describe
them inside of the XHTML file.
| | 04:57 |
Remember that we have 300 KB limit per
XHTML file.
| | 05:01 |
So every letter that you can save by
making a URL shorter, by using one of
| | 05:06 |
those URL shorteners, will actually make
the XHTML better.
| | 05:13 |
Also know that, if there are already
URL's in your text, for example
| | 05:17 |
www.yourcompany.com, InDesign can
automatically convert those to working hyperlinks.
| | 05:24 |
And basically, the way you do it, is go
up to the Type menu, and you go down to
| | 05:29 |
Hyperlinks and Cross References, let me
see why it didn't catch that.
| | 05:36 |
Just go here, Type > Hyperlinks and Cross
References, and Convert URL's to hyperlinks.
| | 05:44 |
And basically, this will tell InDesign,
to look for text that looks like
| | 05:49 |
hyperlinks, and convert them to
hyperlinks automatically.
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| Adding cross-references| 00:02 |
Cross references refer the reader from
one location of the ePub to one another.
| | 00:06 |
And in InDesign we can create cross
references quite easily.
| | 00:10 |
What we want to do in this case for
example is to create a table of contents,
| | 00:14 |
so that the first page that a reader
views when opening the ebook is a Table
| | 00:17 |
of Contents with a list of all of the
chapters.
| | 00:22 |
So that I can easily navigate just by
clicking on it.
| | 00:26 |
Although we already know that the ePub
format contains an automatic Table of
| | 00:30 |
Contents which can be accessed through
menus.
| | 00:33 |
But in some cases it can be interesting
to create your own Table of Contents.
| | 00:38 |
Using cross references in InDesign.
We're going to be using it to create
| | 00:43 |
cross references but remember that any
text inside of your document can be cross
| | 00:47 |
referenced from somewhere else.
So simply by clicking and moving to
| | 00:52 |
another page.
And then maybe back.
| | 00:56 |
To create the Table of Contents here,
what we'll do is create a new section
| | 00:59 |
before chapter one.
To do this, I'm going to go under type,
| | 01:03 |
and I'm going to insert a break character
such as a frame break, and then move up
| | 01:08 |
to that empty section that we've just
created.
| | 01:13 |
At that point what I need to do is to go
under Type > Hyperlinks and Cross
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References > Insert a Cross Reference.
Now, this rather complex window pops up
| | 01:24 |
but we're going to use it In a very
simple way, let's say.
| | 01:29 |
So basically what I do, is choose from
which document I want to actually make
| | 01:33 |
the cross-reference.
And in this case it is Hyperlinks.indd,
| | 01:38 |
the document we are currently working on.
And I can link to a paragraph or a text anchor.
| | 01:46 |
In that case, I want to link to a
paragraph, because I want all of the
| | 01:49 |
chapter headers to be included in that
table of contents that we're creating.
| | 01:54 |
So I'm selecting 1 and 2.
Okay?
| | 01:58 |
So as you can see, as I select the
various Header 1's or Header 2's, these
| | 02:02 |
appear here in the list, all right?
And the other thing that we noticed is
| | 02:07 |
that InDesign adds automatically a whole
bunch of stuff that I don't really need
| | 02:12 |
in cross references inside of that
specific ePub.
| | 02:16 |
For example, the page number here.
There are no page numbers in ePub, so we
| | 02:21 |
can safely remove those.
And this we do in the Cross Reference
| | 02:25 |
Formatting Options down here.
Already here from the pull down menu, we
| | 02:29 |
can choose from various options here.
So, for example, Only the Full Paragraph,
| | 02:33 |
all right?
Or just the Paragraph Text.
| | 02:37 |
Or, the Text Anchor Name and Page Number.
The Page Number Only.
| | 02:42 |
Such as this, on Page 2, all right?
But what we need is simply the Full Paragraph.
| | 02:47 |
But InDesign has added here also the
little quotation marks.
| | 02:51 |
And we want to get rid of those as well.
So by clicking on the little pencil here,
| | 02:56 |
we open this other window here.
And what we can do is actually give the
| | 03:00 |
Cross Reference Format a name, and let's
call it ePub, like so.
| | 03:06 |
And here we have a code for what is
actually included in that Cross
| | 03:09 |
Reference, and we can simply by putting
the cursor here in the text field remove
| | 03:12 |
the quotation marks.
And then, just to show you so that you're
| | 03:17 |
aware of that, we can add other elements
such as the Page Number, the Paragraph
| | 03:21 |
Number, the Paragraph Text, the Full
Paragraph, all the way down to the
| | 03:24 |
Character Style.
And also, we can insert special
| | 03:30 |
characters such as an M Dash, an N Dash,
Spaces, Non-breaking Spaces and a whole
| | 03:35 |
bunch of stuff all the way down to the
Nested Styles.
| | 03:40 |
But remember that Nested styles are not
supported in the ePub export, so we
| | 03:44 |
shouldn't be using those.
What I can also do is choose a character
| | 03:48 |
style for the Cross Reference, all right?
In this case, it picks up the character
| | 03:53 |
style or the paragraph style directly
from the style that's been used to
| | 03:56 |
actually format.
Chapter one, so let's say okay to this
| | 04:01 |
and here we are.
Now, we only have the text for Chapter 1.
| | 04:05 |
Now we can go down one line, all right, and
create a new cross reference and what we
| | 04:09 |
need now is the header two.
For example, here in which Phileas Fogg
| | 04:15 |
and Passepartout accept each other, the
one as the master, the other as man.
| | 04:20 |
All right?
So we can go back into our text, let's
| | 04:22 |
just say OK to this.
You see that it picked up my format
| | 04:26 |
called ePub, say okay to this, let's go
down one line.
| | 04:30 |
Add another cross reference to Chapter
II, OK.
| | 04:34 |
And then Add another Cross Reference
below with the Header II in which
| | 04:39 |
Passepartout II is convinced.
All right?
| | 04:44 |
And so on, okay?
Again, in this case, what I could do when
| | 04:47 |
creating these Cross References I could
also have rectangle around it.
| | 04:51 |
But since they're all on the same page, I
don't really need to do that.
| | 04:55 |
The cool thing about Cross Reference is
is that they change as your text moves.
| | 05:00 |
So if, for example, let's say in the case
that maybe you moved Chapter II after
| | 05:04 |
Chapter III, the Cross References will
automatically adjust to that.
| | 05:09 |
However, before you export to your final
ePub, always make sure that you've
| | 05:13 |
updated the Cross References in the Text.
So, to do that, you can go to Type >
| | 05:18 |
Hyperlinks and Cross References.
And then, if there are any Cross
| | 05:22 |
References that have been updated, you
will then be able to choose Update Cross
| | 05:27 |
Reference from here.
And this you should do before Exporting
| | 05:32 |
to ePub.
Because otherwise, the links will not work.
| | 05:35 |
So let's have a quick look at what we've
just done.
| | 05:37 |
I'm going to Export this.
File > Export for > ePub.
| | 05:42 |
And let's call this one not Footnotes,
but Hyperlinks or Cross References.
| | 05:48 |
Cross-ref, like this.
And Save it.
| | 05:52 |
Again, the only thing I'm really
interested in right now is to view the
| | 05:55 |
eBook after exporting.
So that you can see what I've done.
| | 05:58 |
InDesign exports the file, and this is
how I actually see it inside of Sigil.
| | 06:03 |
All right?
So, these have been all changed into hyperlinks.
| | 06:07 |
If I click on Chapter II for example, I
will go down directly to Chapter II.
| | 06:12 |
Okay?
So this is a live hyperlink.
| | 06:15 |
And also notice how Sigil represents
hyperlinks as blue text with an
| | 06:19 |
underline, exactly like we were used to
see hyperlinks in old school webpages.
| | 06:26 |
Also here, we have the link to the email
address and a link to a webpage.
| | 06:31 |
All right?
So both the hyperlinks and the
| | 06:34 |
cross-references we just created in
InDesign.
| | 06:38 |
Crossover very well to the ePub format.
There is one thing, although, you need to know.
| | 06:43 |
There is a really nasty bug in the,
InDesign CS5 7.0.3.
| | 06:47 |
So if you have a newer version when you
are watching this course, check if that
| | 06:51 |
box still exists.
But right now, there is bug when
| | 06:55 |
exporting links with cross references and
also footnotes as we've seen to ePub.
| | 07:01 |
I will be talking about a way to correct
this as soon as start talking about
| | 07:07 |
Tweaking the CSS and the XHTML code to
actually show you a manual fix of this problem.
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4. Working with GraphicsAdding graphics| 00:00 |
The ePub 5 format supports several image
formats that can also be used in
| | 00:05 |
InDesign, including JPEG, GIF and PNGs.
Know that most eBook readers, such as the
| | 00:11 |
Amazon Kindle, will show your images in
black and white.
| | 00:15 |
But I think it's still a good idea to
work with color images because in the
| | 00:19 |
near future, the market demand will
almost certainly demand color displays on
| | 00:22 |
all eBook readers.
I mean, we live in a colorful world,
| | 00:26 |
after all.
So when optimizing images for the ePub
| | 00:30 |
file format, it is best to think of one
format that works well across a variety
| | 00:34 |
of devices.
And the number of those available devices
| | 00:38 |
is constantly increasing.
So when you prepare your images in
| | 00:42 |
Photoshop or Fireworks, down sampling
them, making them the correct size, and
| | 00:47 |
then exporting them for web as JPEGs or
GIFs or even PNGs well, think of keeping
| | 00:51 |
your images and color.
The Kindle will automatically show them
| | 00:57 |
in black and white anyway, so.
Well, you know, it is true that a color
| | 01:01 |
image will probably weigh a little bit
more than a black and white image,
| | 01:05 |
because it obviously includes more
information about how to represent those colors.
| | 01:12 |
Also in InDesign when you export to ePub,
there is a function called Formatted
| | 01:16 |
Images that allows you to place TIFFs and
PhotoShop images inside of your InDesign
| | 01:21 |
document and then export them at the size
that you've actually place them inside of
| | 01:25 |
the InDesign document, optimizing the
images for you.
| | 01:32 |
But in my numerous tests when using the
formatted images option in the ePub
| | 01:36 |
Export Dialogue box, which we will see
later on in exporting to ePub, and the
| | 01:40 |
images are down sampled to a lower
quality than acceptable.
| | 01:45 |
So my advice here is to therefore place
images and graphics at the size they are
| | 01:50 |
intended to be displayed.
Also be aware that resizing PNGs and GIFs
| | 01:55 |
inside of InDesign can actually lead to
unexpected results and loss of image quality.
| | 02:01 |
Many eBook readers will resize the images
when displayed, so it's better to place
| | 02:06 |
larger images that will then be scaled
down rather than up, therefore losing resolution.
| | 02:12 |
So remember my document here, I've
created it in such a way, let's just see
| | 02:17 |
the whole page here.
In such a way so that it resembles the
| | 02:23 |
screen of an iPad with a live area here
in between the margins of 600x800 pixels.
| | 02:30 |
So images larger then that would take up
necessary space in the ePub, and may even
| | 02:35 |
cause performance issues or even not
display at all.
| | 02:40 |
So for example, on the Kindle image file
sizes can't be larger the 64 kilobyte.
| | 02:46 |
So also make sure check final sizes after
the export in the image folders of the ePub.
| | 02:51 |
The important thing in InDesign to do, is
to anchor the images in the flow of text.
| | 02:56 |
All of the graphics in your layout need
to be anchored within the single body of
| | 03:01 |
text, or the story.
So that they move within the text when it reflows.
| | 03:07 |
Remember when I showed you how the text
reflows as screen sizers get smaller or larger?
| | 03:12 |
Well, images need to adapt to that as
well and this is why the images need to
| | 03:16 |
be anchored inside of the text.
The flow of text this unique, this single
| | 03:22 |
flow of text that goes from a beginning
to an end.
| | 03:26 |
So when anchored, graphics actually
become part of the paragraph they appear in.
| | 03:31 |
And they appear inline with that
paragraph when viewed in InDesign or in
| | 03:35 |
an eBook reader.
So to anchor an image within the flow of
| | 03:39 |
text, just do the following.
Go to the Type tool here and let's say
| | 03:43 |
that we want to add an image here right
after the first paragraph.
| | 03:48 |
So Cmd+D or File > Place, Cmd+D and
let's choose an image that we want to
| | 03:53 |
place here.
So here I have an image of Phileas Fogg
| | 03:58 |
that I want to place right after the
first paragraph.
| | 04:02 |
So let's open this and automatically the
image is placed inside of my layout.
| | 04:08 |
But also notice that in this case, we
don't see it because since the image is
| | 04:13 |
in line with the text, it actually jumped
to the next page where it has more space.
| | 04:20 |
In the case that your image is already
placed in your layout somewhere else, you
| | 04:24 |
can actually use the Selection tool here
and double-click on the image, Copy the
| | 04:27 |
image and just place it inside of your
text flow.
| | 04:32 |
The reason why I chose to make my live
area 600x800 is because it gives me a
| | 04:37 |
good overview of when I place the images.
I can see at once that this image here
| | 04:45 |
actually fits within my fixed limit of
800x600.
| | 04:50 |
Were it bigger, I would have probably
gone back to Photoshop or Fireworks and
| | 04:54 |
changed the size of the image so that it
fits inside of my document.
| | 04:59 |
Remember, that yes, you can change the
size of images within the document and
| | 05:03 |
then you would have to export the images
formatted when going to ePub but remember
| | 05:08 |
that this can cause unexpected results on
your images.
| | 05:14 |
So, I must prefer to actually place the
images inside of my ePub at the intended size.
| | 05:20 |
The paragraph immediately following the
image could also contain a caption for
| | 05:24 |
the image if one is necessary.
And that specific paragraph also will
| | 05:28 |
require a specific paragraph style but we
will do that shortly.
| | 05:32 |
Simply let's just add a new paragraph
here.
| | 05:35 |
And add the caption.
Phileas Fogg.
| | 05:38 |
All right?
And this will now become the caption of
| | 05:41 |
the image.
Be aware that as the text flows, there's
| | 05:44 |
actually no way of keeping this caption
with the image.
| | 05:49 |
So let's imagine that we have a text flow
here.
| | 05:52 |
Let's just pretend that this text
actually flows down.
| | 05:55 |
Let's just insert a break character here,
let's Frame Break, for example.
| | 06:00 |
And you see that as I move the text down,
this caption disappears.
| | 06:05 |
There is currently no way to of having
the caption stick to the image, all right?
| | 06:10 |
To group it together, so to say.
So, if you absolutely need the caption to
| | 06:14 |
be with the image itself, I advise you to
actually open the image in Photoshop or
| | 06:19 |
Fireworks and add the caption within the
pixels of the image.
| | 06:25 |
And this is the only way that you will
actually have the guarantee that the
| | 06:29 |
caption will stay with the image.
So let's Cmd+Z out of that and put
| | 06:33 |
everything back in order here.
And have a last look at what we just did.
| | 06:38 |
We placed the text cursor inside of the
text and then under File > Place, we
| | 06:43 |
placed an image right there inside of the
text.
| | 06:48 |
And remember that we have one single flow
of text that goes from the beginning to
| | 06:52 |
an end just like an antique scroll.
All right and that image is now part of
| | 07:00 |
that flow.
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| Creating a paragraph style for images| 00:00 |
It's interesting to note, that if you
want your image to align in the center or
| | 00:04 |
to the left, all you have to do is to
create a paragraph style that aligns the
| | 00:07 |
paragraph into which the graphic is
anchored to the left, to the right or to
| | 00:11 |
the center.
So, let's do that for a second, let's
| | 00:17 |
just select the whole paragraph here
because this image is in fact inside of a
| | 00:22 |
paragraph, and let's go over to our
paragraph styles and create a new
| | 00:26 |
paragraph style just for these images.
So I'm going to create one, creating a
| | 00:33 |
new style here by clicking the button.
And I'm going to call it image, and
| | 00:39 |
basing it on body I will however make
some modifications.
| | 00:44 |
For example under indent and spacing what
I can do is change the alignment to
| | 00:48 |
center for example, and we can see right
away inside of the layout how that
| | 00:53 |
effects the position of the image which
is in now in fact centered.
| | 01:00 |
The other thing I need to do is to maybe
change the space after because remember
| | 01:04 |
that in our style called body which this
style is based on.
| | 01:10 |
We've added a, space of ten pixel after
the paragraph.
| | 01:15 |
So in this case, what we may want to do
is to add some space before the image to
| | 01:19 |
really make sure that the images are
separated from the text.
| | 01:24 |
So I can say, maybe let's do a ten pixel
space before the image and then we want
| | 01:28 |
to reduce the space after the image
because we want to keep the caption very near.
| | 01:36 |
So let's do that.
Let's do the space after five pixels, okay?
| | 01:41 |
And that's all we really need to do and
we can also see that the caption has in
| | 01:45 |
fact come closer to the image.
So let's say okay to this, and this style
| | 01:50 |
has now been created.
Let's now create a style for the caption
| | 01:55 |
and I'm going to zoom in in this area a
little bit and I'm going to select that
| | 01:59 |
paragraph and create a new style.
I'm going to call it caption and I'm
| | 02:05 |
going to base it on body as well.
And under indents and spacing, I'm going
| | 02:10 |
to align it to the center just as the
image itself.
| | 02:12 |
I'm going to change the basic character
format by lowering the size of the caption.
| | 02:16 |
I want this to be a slighly smaller than
the body text, okay?
| | 02:27 |
So that the reader can actually
differentiate it from the body text, and
| | 02:31 |
the last thing I want to do is to maybe
add some more space after.
| | 02:37 |
Okay double the space to 20 pixels for
example, so that there is a nice distance
| | 02:41 |
between the image, the caption, and the
body text.
| | 02:46 |
Let's click okay to that.
And zoom out again, and maybe add another
| | 02:50 |
image just by applying these new styles
that we've created.
| | 02:55 |
So, I'm going to move down in the
document, and maybe on this page here.
| | 03:00 |
Actually let's go over here, and randomly
place the image inside of a paragraph here.
| | 03:06 |
Command D, or File, place, and I'm going
to place my second image here.
| | 03:12 |
That's the image of Pasapatu.
And lets, place that image.
| | 03:16 |
It has jumped to the next page, or the
next view in this case, because we have
| | 03:21 |
no pages in ePub.
Let's create a new paragraph Pasa, patu,
| | 03:27 |
creating the caption.
And then applying the caption style to
| | 03:33 |
this and applying the image style to that
as well.
| | 03:38 |
All right?
So just to check what we've effectively
| | 03:40 |
done I'm going to export this.
File, export for epub, and control what
| | 03:46 |
has actually happened here.
So let's call this Graphics.
| | 03:51 |
Epub.
All right I'm going to save that in our
| | 03:53 |
working folder.
Graphics epub.
| | 03:56 |
And all I want to do is to really view
the E-book after exporting.
| | 03:59 |
But let me just show you what we can do
inside of the image formatting here.
| | 04:06 |
I've said that I don't want the images to
be formatted.
| | 04:11 |
And in this case, I want the images to be
saved as JPEGs, and let's go have a quick
| | 04:16 |
look at the contents.
I want to generate the CSS and export that.
| | 04:23 |
Now we see the text inside of Sigil, and
as you can see, my images have been included.
| | 04:31 |
They are actually centered.
The caption here is a smaller font size
| | 04:35 |
than the rest of the text.
And if we move on we see in effect that
| | 04:40 |
all the images have been placed exactly
like I've told them to be inside of InDesign.
| | 04:46 |
And if we go into the styles that we've
created in the CSS, if we go down a
| | 04:50 |
little bit, we see that these new styles
have actually appeared here.
| | 04:55 |
One for the caption and one for the
image.
| | 04:59 |
We'll also learn about how to actually
modify those styles later on.
| | 05:03 |
But this is the way that we can very,
very easily place images inside of our
| | 05:10 |
end design document and export them to
the ePub.
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| Converting graphics created in InDesign to external linked files| 00:00 |
In InDesign CS5, it has become incredibly
easy to export just a selection to any
| | 00:05 |
desired format.
So, this is a technique that you can
| | 00:09 |
actually use for graphics that you've
created in InDesign.
| | 00:14 |
For example, charts or tables like we've
already seen.
| | 00:18 |
Remember, I took the table, I placed it
into another InDesign document, and then
| | 00:23 |
linked to that document.
Or, I could take portions of the InDesign
| | 00:28 |
document, export them as images and then
relink them inside of my epublication so
| | 00:33 |
that they carry over well over to the
EPUB.
| | 00:38 |
So let's imagine for a second that maybe
I want to add some graphic element inside
| | 00:42 |
of my book here.
For example, I would like to add a little
| | 00:45 |
something between the chapter number and
the chapter description.
| | 00:50 |
So what I'm going to do is simply create
a new paragraph here.
| | 00:54 |
And under type and glyphs, what I will
do is maybe go down to some symbols that
| | 00:59 |
we have here.
Let's see what we have in wingdings for example.
| | 01:07 |
Okay, and let's take a symbol here, for
example, one of those little swishes here okay?
| | 01:13 |
Let's say that this one is nice, I want
to insert that and this is how I want my
| | 01:17 |
chapters to be divided.
So this is a specific font and of course
| | 01:23 |
this will not export to the EPUB, unless
I embed fonts.
| | 01:28 |
We're already seen that, embedding fonts
isn't the best solution, because not all
| | 01:32 |
eBook readers actually read embedded
fonts.
| | 01:36 |
So what other solutions do we have here
to actually make sure that this little
| | 01:41 |
graphic element is actually placed into
the EPUB?
| | 01:45 |
So, the thing I will do here is to
actually select this character here Like
| | 01:51 |
this, copy.
I can actually cut it away, Command-X,
| | 01:55 |
and put it into its own little text frame
here, and then, I will put the text frame
| | 02:00 |
all around the object so that it's all
wrapped like this.
| | 02:06 |
And if we zoom in, maybe we can see that
we can wrap it even a little bit more,
| | 02:11 |
because this will basically be the
limitation of my image that I will be exporting.
| | 02:18 |
Okay, so I can't do that, so let's just
select it and under File > Export, I will
| | 02:24 |
choose an Image 5 format, and I will call
it Swoosh, okay?
| | 02:30 |
And this is the graphic that I want to
include inside of my EPUB, and I'm going
| | 02:35 |
to put that into my links here, save it
as a JPEG.
| | 02:41 |
I will keep it in high quality at 72DPI
and export that.
| | 02:48 |
All right, at that point I can delete that
character and go back to my layout, and
| | 02:54 |
here, I will simply place my Text tool
where I want the graphic to appear.
| | 03:01 |
And under File > Place or Command-D, I
will now choose this little graphic I've
| | 03:07 |
created in links, Swoosh.jpeg.
All right, we have a little preview here.
| | 03:15 |
And open.
All right, and here it is.
| | 03:18 |
Now don't worry about it looking so
pixelized.
| | 03:21 |
This is a viewing issue.
And if we change the display performance
| | 03:25 |
to high quality display, we will see that
the image will actually become better.
| | 03:31 |
But this image has now the Header 1
paragraph style.
| | 03:36 |
And of course, we want to give it the
image paragraph style, all right, so that
| | 03:40 |
it has a lesser space before it or after
it, okay?
| | 03:45 |
Or we can even give it a totally new
paragraph style to try to format that.
| | 03:51 |
At that point, what I will do is simply
copy that paragraph, okay, and go down to
| | 03:55 |
Chapter 2, for example.
Here are the images that we've inserted earlier.
| | 04:00 |
And Chapter 2, and here, I'm going to
select that paragraph, and paste that
| | 04:05 |
graphic in here as well.
Okay, so lets just make sure that this is
| | 04:10 |
actually tagged image.
Okay, and, this was a very, very easy way
| | 04:15 |
to actually have something created in
InDesign become an image and relink it back.
| | 04:22 |
Remember, the other solution that we also
can use, which would be to actually put
| | 04:26 |
that character into an InDesign document
the size of the image we wanted, and then
| | 04:30 |
link to that file from within another
InDesign document.
| | 04:36 |
So, let's export this File > Export for >
EPUB, and let's Save it as placed Swoosh.
| | 04:45 |
Okay?
And working with graphics, Save the file.
| | 04:51 |
And what I want here is the images not to
be formatted, the image conversion to JPEG.
| | 04:58 |
And this all looks okay.
We'll go into the details later and view
| | 05:02 |
the eBook after exporting.
So let's export this and see the result
| | 05:07 |
in Sigil.
All right, now this little swooshy thing
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here has become part of my publication,
and if I go down to Chapter 2, we see
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that we have it here as well.
So remember, there are many things that
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you can create in InDesign or with
effects applied with a drop shadows with
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whatever colors you need to create your
graphics with.
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There are ways to either export it as an
image in the JPEG format or to actually
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save it inside of another InDesign file,
and place that InDesign file inside your epublication.
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And we will get the exact same result.
All right, pretty cool.
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5. Defining the Reading Order of the EPUBUsing an InDesign story to define the reading order| 00:00 |
The EPUB format does not define page
structure or size in any way.
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During the EPUB conversion process, the
position on the layout of all the design
| | 00:09 |
elements in the publication is completely
discarded.
| | 00:14 |
And every thing, text, images, and
graphics, gets placed into a single
| | 00:17 |
continuous flow of information in the
order that you have defined it.
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Exactly like what we did.
In this document here, where we first
| | 00:27 |
placed the text, threaded it all together
inside of a single story, and then added
| | 00:32 |
the images and graphics inside of that
story as anchored images and graphics.
| | 00:39 |
So, the easiest way to control the
position of the content in the EPUB is to
| | 00:43 |
actually set it up as one text frame per
page in your document, link all the text
| | 00:47 |
frames together, and have your text flow
as a single story.
| | 00:54 |
This method really represents a foolproof
way to ensure that everything is exported
| | 00:58 |
in the same order as it appears inside of
your InDesign document.
| | 01:03 |
So, let's have a quick look at what we
did here.
| | 01:05 |
So, we've created the chapters, we've
created the styling.
| | 01:08 |
We've added some graphics after the
chapter number.
| | 01:12 |
And if we start moving down, you will see
that we have images, and there are captions.
| | 01:17 |
And then as we continue, and if I click
on one of those text frames, we also see
| | 01:21 |
the threads, and that's kind of
reassuring to see that these text frames
| | 01:25 |
are, in fact, all linked together.
And then, we can continue to scroll down
| | 01:31 |
a little bit and see that all of the
images are here.
| | 01:35 |
And that we also have the graphics.
Everything is under control.
| | 01:39 |
If you don't place everything within a
single story, with anchored graphics for
| | 01:44 |
example, InDesign exports the content in
the order it is arranged on the page,
| | 01:49 |
from left to right and then from top to
down.
| | 01:54 |
We can control the export order by
manually extending or relocating the
| | 01:57 |
various frames on each page.
But this method can be really, really
| | 02:01 |
tedious and time consuming.
Just to give you an example here, let's
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go here on a page where we have some text
but no images.
| | 02:08 |
And I'm going to place an image.
Let's take the last one here, the 39-B.
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And open that and paste it here, okay?
So remember, InDesign reads the page as
| | 02:19 |
one flow of text, and then this image is
placed here.
| | 02:24 |
And basically, InDesign reads from the
left end and from top to bottom.
| | 02:30 |
So basically, what should happen here,
and we're going to check that, is that it
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takes the text that appears here.
And then, it would put the image
| | 02:37 |
somewhere random here inside of the text,
and then continue.
| | 02:40 |
So let's export this as an EPUB.
File > Export for EPUB, and let's go to
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the right folder and export this as
reading order with unanchored image so
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you can have a look at it later, too.
Let's save this.
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We want to view the eBook after
exporting.
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And also, you will see that in the
contents, we can actually tell InDesign
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to base the ordering on the Page Layout.
Okay, this is what we want and we want to
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export this.
And once Sigil opens with our document,
| | 03:21 |
we're going to check exactly what the
export did.
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Let's move down.
Here's past part two.
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And somewhere here should be our image,
in Chapter 2, right?
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Because that's where we placed it.
Let's see if InDesign managed that.
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No.
See InDesign didn't even consider placing
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it here.
So, let's check the end of the document.
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The very, very end of the document here.
And yes, here it is, that's my image
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number 39.
So basically, what InDesign did to that
| | 03:56 |
unanchored image is to yes, consider it,
but not place it inside of the text float.
| | 04:02 |
So it is much, much easier to really
anchor all of your graphic elements
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inside of the text float.
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| Using XML to define the reading order| 00:00 |
Using the XML structure may be useful
when working with complex layouts, where
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the flow of text and graphics is not
immediately apparent.
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This method allows you to control the
reading order, without modifying the
| | 00:13 |
original layout.
Which is actually very useful for
| | 00:16 |
converting existing or very complex
documents to EPUB.
| | 00:20 |
But before you can export to EPUB, by
specifying the expert reading order as
| | 00:24 |
XML, your document must contain an XML
structure.
| | 00:28 |
My advice, however, is to use the
single-story flow system every time you
| | 00:32 |
can because it is so much easier to
harness the reading order.
| | 00:37 |
Let's go back to this document here.
Where we have an example of a very
| | 00:41 |
linearly reading order where we have all
the graphics anchored inside of the text.
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And if we move down all the text frames
are threaded together and all of the
| | 00:50 |
images are in position.
This is the foolproof way.
| | 00:54 |
But of course it can happen that you
have a lay out that is a little bit more
| | 00:58 |
difficult to control.
Such as this one, where maybe you would
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lose more time copying and pasting all
these elements together and threading the
| | 01:07 |
text together.
There are way InDesign that can actually
| | 01:12 |
do that.
Let's first see how InDesign would export
| | 01:15 |
a text like this.
And remember that InDesign reads the
| | 01:19 |
document from left to right, and from top
to bottom.
| | 01:23 |
Okay?
So, let's go to File > Export for EPUB,
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and Save this file as a non-threaded
layout ePub.
| | 01:32 |
Okay?
So, let's Save this in our folder, here,
| | 01:35 |
Save it.
The other thing that we want to check is
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that it is actually based on the layout,
because we haven't created an XML
| | 01:41 |
structure yet.
And we want to view the ebook after exporting.
| | 01:45 |
So let's export this, and opened in
Sigil, this is how it looks.
| | 01:50 |
First we have the chapter number, then we
have the image, then the caption, then
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the subtitle to the chapter, and then the
rest of the text, and a little graphic
| | 02:00 |
here at the end.
Okay?
| | 02:04 |
A little graphic that should have been
between the chapter number and the subtitle.
| | 02:08 |
As you can see, this is quite messy, but
we can correct that.
| | 02:13 |
Let's go back to InDesign, and look at
why these elements actually appeared that way.
| | 02:17 |
You see, InDesign looked at the document
from left to right, and from top to bottom.
| | 02:23 |
So the first element it found Is actually
this one, and then it found these image
| | 02:28 |
here, and then it found the caption.
The next thing it found is the subtitle,
| | 02:33 |
and then the text, and then a little bit
more to the right here, it found the graphic.
| | 02:39 |
'Kay, and this is the reading order that
InDesign applied to that document automatically.
| | 02:44 |
Now, of course, there are ways that we
can correct that.
| | 02:47 |
And to do that we need to tag this
document for XML.
| | 02:51 |
To do that, we'll go to Window >
Utilities and Tags, to open the Tags panel.
| | 03:00 |
And basically what we need to do here, a
little bit like creating the necessary
| | 03:03 |
character and paragraph styles for the
document, we need to create the necessary
| | 03:07 |
tags for this document.
So we'll do that by creating a new tag
| | 03:13 |
for the chapter number, chapter number.
Like this.
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An then we create a new tag for the
subtitle.
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Okay.
Then a new tag for the body text.
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Which we're going to call Body.
And then a new tag for images.
| | 03:38 |
Image and a new tag for caption.
Okay?
| | 03:42 |
This is, I think, all we need to actually
give a sense to that layout.
| | 03:49 |
So, to apply these, all we need to do is
to select an object, for example this one.
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And this is actually the chapter number.
And if you want to view the colors as I'm
| | 04:01 |
seeing them right now, you can go to View
> Structure and choose To Show Tagged Frames.
| | 04:10 |
This will actually show you the color of
the tag you're applying to the layout.
| | 04:15 |
And of course this is something that will
not export to print or to the EPUB.
| | 04:21 |
And this here is an image, this here is
the subtitle, this here is another image,
| | 04:27 |
this here is the caption and this here is
the body of the text.
| | 04:34 |
All right, so now we have tagged all of
the elements of that page.
| | 04:38 |
And of course, this is something that you
could do throughout a whole document.
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This allows us to see where the tags have
been applied.
| | 04:45 |
Now there's one thing missing.
We need to see the structure of the
| | 04:49 |
document, and to do that, we go to View >
Structure Show Structure.
| | 04:55 |
And here on the side we see that
everything starts to have a sense here.
| | 05:00 |
So for example we see that we have the
chapter number, then we have a image, we
| | 05:03 |
have the subtitle, another image, a
caption, and then the body.
| | 05:07 |
This is actually ordered in the way that
I've selected these and applied a tag on it.
| | 05:14 |
Another thing that I've done here in the
structure view, is in the menu to
| | 05:19 |
actuality ask InDesign to show me text
snippets, so that I can actually see what
| | 05:24 |
it is that I'm actually re-ordering here.
Let's export this and see what happens.
| | 05:31 |
File > Export for EPUB, and we're going
to call this non-threaded layout number two.
| | 05:38 |
Let's save this and export it, same as
XML structure now, you see?
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As soon as we've created the XML
structure, InDesign will allow us now to
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choose same as XML structure.
And I want to view the ebook after
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exporting, so let's export this.
And here we are.
| | 05:54 |
Now I have the chapter number, my little
graphic here.
| | 05:59 |
I have my subtitle, the image, the
caption and of course the body text, and
| | 06:04 |
little footnote here at the end.
Okay?
| | 06:09 |
So this is the order that InDesign now
exports it.
| | 06:14 |
Of course, in this case, there aren't any
paragraph or character styles that
| | 06:18 |
actually format the text.
And if we go back to Sigil here, we see
| | 06:23 |
that the only paragraph styles that have
carried over are actually the paragraph
| | 06:27 |
styles that have been applied to the
chapter number and the subtitle to center
| | 06:31 |
the text.
But you can see that since the paragraph
| | 06:37 |
style image hasn't been applied to these
graphics and images, these are not centered.
| | 06:44 |
This is however, something that we can
easily change here inside of the CSS, and
| | 06:48 |
the code to actually re-center those
images.
| | 06:53 |
But the main thing here to remember, is
that it is pretty cool that you can
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actually take a layout that is rather
complex without threaded text or anchored images.
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Add the necessary tags, move all of the
elements into place inside of the
| | 07:10 |
structure panel, and then export an EPUB
in the correct reading order.
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6. Other Essential Parts of an EbookCreating the cover for the ebook| 00:02 |
Okay, now that we've put together all of
our text, created the table of contents
| | 00:06 |
with cross-references and have styled our
chapter numbers and our chapter subtitles
| | 00:10 |
and inserted some graphics for the
graphic appearance of the ePub and also
| | 00:14 |
some images with their captions.
We are now ready to create the cover.
| | 00:20 |
There's actually much, much discussion as
to how important the cover is for an ebook.
| | 00:25 |
Some people say that in the age of
electronic publications the cover has
| | 00:28 |
lost its meaning.
Others like myself believe that the cover
| | 00:32 |
of an ebook is just as important as the
cover of a traditional book.
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In my modest opinion, an ebook will also
be judged by its cover.
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So the cover is actually the first image
your reader will see when opening the ebook.
| | 00:46 |
The cover will also represent your ebook
in virtual libraries, such as those for
| | 00:50 |
the Kindle, Stanza, or the iBook store.
It needs to be well designed so that your
| | 00:55 |
reader will enjoy seeing it, in his or
her electronic library.
| | 01:00 |
Also, when potential users look for
electronic content, they like to browse
| | 01:03 |
the web and online bookstores, comparing
titles.
| | 01:07 |
I strongly believe that a well-designed
cover will help you sell your ebook more.
| | 01:11 |
The cover and the icon that will
represent your ebook on the book shelf
| | 01:14 |
and the ebook reader needs to be just a
single image.
| | 01:18 |
To create your cover you can use your
favorite design applications, be it
| | 01:22 |
Photoshop Illustrator or InDesign.
The cover of your ebook will be part of
| | 01:27 |
the continuous stream of your ePub.
Exactly like we have all the chapters in
| | 01:31 |
the continuous stream, the cover would be
part of that stream.
| | 01:35 |
But to avoid having the text flow right
after the cover image and have it in a
| | 01:39 |
separate file automatically, what you
need to do is to create a separate new
| | 01:42 |
document for your cover.
And combine it with the rest of your
| | 01:47 |
content, using InDesign's look feature.
The other reason for having a cover in a
| | 01:51 |
separate file, is that many ebook readers
will be looking for that file, which
| | 01:54 |
contains just an image.
And reinterpret it as the cover, using it
| | 01:59 |
in the digital library as an icon, as a
full size cover at the beginning of the book.
| | 02:05 |
So in our case, our images are all in the
proportions of 600 by 800.
| | 02:10 |
So this is exactly what I did in this
case.
| | 02:13 |
Let's create a new document, Cmd+M, and
use our document preset here.
| | 02:19 |
Actually, we're going to change it to a
width of 600 pixels to 800 pixels because
| | 02:24 |
this is the size that I designed my cover
for.
| | 02:28 |
And let's say okay.
At that point I'm going to import a file
| | 02:33 |
that I've prepared.
File place or Cmd+D and in the images
| | 02:38 |
folder of the lesson six files you will
find a JPEG file of the cover for the
| | 02:43 |
English version of that book.
As you can see, this has been created in
| | 02:50 |
Photoshop, adding some texts and some
images from the original versions of this text.
| | 02:56 |
So let's say OK to this, open it, and
place it on my Document.
| | 03:01 |
As you can see, it is exactly the size
needed, 600 by 800.
| | 03:06 |
This image does not need to be in the
text flow.
| | 03:08 |
As you can see, all I did was just place
the image and we're going to save that
| | 03:12 |
inside of our folder.
Inside of our folder six over here, and
| | 03:17 |
together with our file OtherParts.indd,
we're simply going to call this one Cover.
| | 03:24 |
And in the next step we will be putting
together the Cover.
| | 03:29 |
And the InDesign document, the other
InDesign document, the one containing the
| | 03:33 |
text and the images, together using the
InDesign book panel.
| | 03:37 |
So let's save this and we're done for the
cover.
| | 03:41 |
So remember, the cover can be created
with Photoshop, with Illustrator, with
| | 03:45 |
InDesign itself.
But remember that it has to be an image.
| | 03:49 |
So you either can link to an image, to a
JPEG, to a Photoshop file which will then
| | 03:54 |
be compressed and optimized as a GIF or a
JPEG upon export.
| | 03:59 |
Or you could create the whole Cover
inside of InDesign in a separate file and
| | 04:03 |
then link to it from your cover document.
So that all of your graphics and designs
| | 04:10 |
will be transformed into a pixel based
image upon export.
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| Using the InDesign Book panel| 00:00 |
Once we've created the cover and the
content of our eBook, what we need to do
| | 00:05 |
is to put them together in an InDesign
book.
| | 00:10 |
An InDesign book is essentially a
container of files and allows for
| | 00:13 |
simultaneous printing, synchronizing, and
in our case, exporting to ePub.
| | 00:19 |
The book file is essential in the In
Design to ePub workflow because it
| | 00:22 |
combines the cover file with the rest of
the document.
| | 00:26 |
Or if you are producing and eBook with
multiple chapters or sections, a so
| | 00:30 |
called long document, you may want to
create a separate InDesign document for
| | 00:33 |
each chapter and then combine them all
together in an InDesign book file.
| | 00:39 |
When you export the ePub file, each
chapter will then automatically be
| | 00:43 |
converted into a separate XHTML file.
This is especially important for long and
| | 00:49 |
complex eBooks because the chapters will
load faster in an eBook Reader when an
| | 00:52 |
eBook is made of several smaller XHTML
pages instead of one large one.
| | 00:58 |
So, let's see how we can create this book
file.
| | 01:01 |
What we're going to do is simply say File
> New > Book.
| | 01:06 |
And then, we're going to call it
aroundtheworldin80days, okay?
| | 01:11 |
So, we're going to give it a name.
And we're going to save it together with
| | 01:16 |
our two documents, the cover and the
other parts of the documents.
| | 01:22 |
So, let's save this and this new little
panel appears.
| | 01:27 |
Basically, what we do in that panel is
add the documents that we will need
| | 01:31 |
inside of this book.
So, we can press the little+sign, and
| | 01:35 |
go into our folders and say we need the
cover, and we're going to Open that, and
| | 01:39 |
we also need the rest of the file, and
we're going to Open that as well.
| | 01:45 |
Now, one important thing here to
understand is that the cover here pilots
| | 01:49 |
all the styles that have been applied
inside of that document.
| | 01:54 |
And basically, when we export to ePub,
this cover will also define the CSS
| | 01:59 |
necessary for the rest of the document.
So, it is important to actually go to our
| | 02:04 |
cover document and import all paragraph
and character styles.
| | 02:08 |
So, let's have a quick look at that.
In this document here, we see that we
| | 02:12 |
have paragraph styles for the header 1
header 2, the body, the caption, and the
| | 02:17 |
image, and a couple of character styles.
If we now move back to the cover file
| | 02:23 |
here, we see that we have no character
styles, and no paragraph styles.
| | 02:28 |
So, right now, this is a bad candidate
for actually being the source of the
| | 02:33 |
styles for our InDesign eBook.
So, what we need to do here, to begin
| | 02:38 |
with, is to go in the Paragraph Styles
and go to the menu of the panel, and Load
| | 02:43 |
All Text Styles, okay?
Doing that, we open this window here, and
| | 02:49 |
we can select the document from which we
want the styles to be imported from,
| | 02:53 |
which in this case, is this other
parts.indd.
| | 02:58 |
So, let's Open this and InDesign shows me
a list of all of the styles that will be imported.
| | 03:03 |
My header 1, header 2, the body, the
caption, the image, and Bold and Italic.
| | 03:08 |
And we can see the difference between
Paragraph Styles and Character Styles.
| | 03:12 |
So, import those, and here they are.
They're all within the same book file now.
| | 03:18 |
At that point, I can, at all time, simply
synchronize all of the elements that are
| | 03:22 |
part of the book file by clicking this
button here, okay?
| | 03:27 |
Synchronize styles and swatches with a
style source, all right?
| | 03:31 |
But the main reason why we did this book
is to actually get the cover together
| | 03:36 |
with our textural content which is in
this other InDesign document.
| | 03:42 |
And now, these two files are bundled
together.
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| Creating the table of contents (TOC)| 00:02 |
The next important thing we need to do
for our ePub is to create the table of contents.
| | 00:07 |
Because a table of contents is an
essential part of any book, even an
| | 00:10 |
eBook, because it allows your reader to
quickly jump to a specific section within
| | 00:14 |
the publication.
In E-Pub, there are actually 2 kinds of
| | 00:19 |
different tables of contents that we can
create.
| | 00:23 |
A table of content located at the
beginning of the eBook such as the one
| | 00:26 |
we've created here using cross references
or one that functions as a navigation
| | 00:30 |
system in the menu of the eBook reader.
Which is generated automatically in InDesign.
| | 00:38 |
So let's look at this table of contents
here, which we've created with cross references.
| | 00:45 |
The cool thing about cross references is
that when you use cross references, each
| | 00:49 |
toc entry is generated from its
destination text.
| | 00:53 |
So if the destination text is modified,
the corresponding entry here is
| | 00:57 |
automatically updated with a new
destination text.
| | 01:02 |
Also, remember that if you do a table of
contents like this, don't ever reference
| | 01:06 |
page numbers because in the ePub, as the
text reflows and the graphics reflow,
| | 01:10 |
there are no page numbers.
So, try to keep them out of this
| | 01:15 |
automatically generated, automatically
meaning that would used the
| | 01:19 |
cross-references, try to keep out the
page numbers.
| | 01:24 |
Let's look at the second option that we
have, and that is a table of contents
| | 01:27 |
that will serve as a navigation system in
the eBook reader itself.
| | 01:32 |
inDesign can automatically create the
table of contents for the ePub during export.
| | 01:38 |
Provided that you have chosen to include
the InDesign table of content entries, in
| | 01:42 |
the Digital Editions Export options,
which we'll see later.
| | 01:47 |
To make that option available, there are
a few things we need to do.
| | 01:51 |
Let's move over to the cover document
again, because this is now our, the
| | 01:56 |
source of styles and also the document
where we're going to create the table of
| | 02:01 |
context in, and go to Layout > Table of
Contents.
| | 02:07 |
And basically what we're going to do here
is create the table of contents for the document.
| | 02:13 |
We can give it a title, although in our
case it doesn't really matter because we
| | 02:17 |
are not going to be using that but let's
give it a title such as eBook, menu,
| | 02:20 |
table of contents.
We don't need to actually apply a
| | 02:25 |
paragraph style to it because we are not
going to styling it.
| | 02:30 |
And what we can do is simply take from
the styles that are available in our
| | 02:35 |
document, the ones necessary to create
the table of contents.
| | 02:41 |
So we're going to add header1, which is
the first level header, the chapter number.
| | 02:47 |
And then also header2, which is the
slightly more descriptive text that we
| | 02:51 |
have under the first title, the chapter
title.
| | 02:55 |
Also here I can choose whether to style
or not to style the entries, but we're
| | 02:58 |
not going to do that, because we're not
going to be using the text.
| | 03:03 |
All we need if for is for InDesign to
have the information ready on export.
| | 03:08 |
I don't need to create the PDF marks
because this is something that we need
| | 03:13 |
for PDF.
And what else can I do here?
| | 03:16 |
Let's see more options.
I can try to organize the styles with
| | 03:19 |
page numbers etcetera.
That's also something we don't need to
| | 03:22 |
think about.
Really all we need is the fewer options
| | 03:26 |
and the only thing we need is to actually
put in our header1 and header2 in this case.
| | 03:34 |
The other important thing to do is to
save that style.
| | 03:37 |
So we're going to save that style as
eBook.
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TOC.
Like this, okay?
| | 03:44 |
And we're going to Save it so that the
next time that we use it, we can say okay
| | 03:48 |
to this and place the table of contents.
Okay, let's remove it a second.
| | 03:54 |
Let's redo it simply by taking the table
of contents again here, eBook TOC, okay,
| | 03:58 |
that's the one we're using.
But one thing I forgot earlier, is to do
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this, include book documents.
Very, very important.
| | 04:08 |
And the other important is that, if you
make any modifications to the TOC style,
| | 04:11 |
in this case eBook talk, you see, now it
changed to custom, because I've included
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the book documents.
The documents that are inside of our book
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panel over here, the cover, and the other
parts.
| | 04:25 |
I need to resave the style so I'm going
to Save this style again, say Ok, and
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replace it.
You want to replace it?
| | 04:32 |
Yes.
Okay, this is very important that if you
| | 04:35 |
make any change here you need to resave
your TOC style otherwise it will not
| | 04:39 |
remember it upon ePub export.
So let's say Ok to this.
| | 04:45 |
Do you want the text in overset items to
appear?
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We say Yes.
Okay.
| | 04:50 |
We don't know if there is overset text,
but if we place this TOC here, we see
| | 04:53 |
that we have all of the elements that are
inside of our book.
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We have the chapter number.
We have the page number here but we don't
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care because we're not going to show it.
We have the subtitle, etc, we have the
| | 05:05 |
whole table of contents.
At that point we can also delete it, all right?
| | 05:10 |
Remember, the only important thing here
is to create a table of contents style
| | 05:16 |
and save it so that we can easily call
upon it when we export the document.
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| Adding metadata| 00:00 |
The last thing we can do before we export
our InDesign book, is to add Metadata.
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What is Metadata?
Metadata is data about the data.
| | 00:11 |
The ePub in this case.
Essentially, it is data that is Embedded
| | 00:15 |
in your file, which describes your
content.
| | 00:18 |
the ePub format supports a variety of
Metadata entries.
| | 00:22 |
That describe an E-book, such as the
title, the author and the publisher.
| | 00:27 |
This information is displayed in most
E-book readers and is indexed by search
| | 00:31 |
engines making it very easy for users to
locate or identify content.
| | 00:36 |
InDesign can automatically export some of
that meta data if you enter the
| | 00:39 |
information in the File Information
dialog box.
| | 00:43 |
Which can be accessed by File Info down
here.
| | 00:47 |
All right?
But this is something that we want to do
| | 00:50 |
on the Cover File because this is the
first document that will be exported.
| | 00:54 |
Okay?
That's also the one that contains our
| | 00:57 |
table of contents style.
So let's go to the cover and under File,
| | 01:02 |
File Info.
We open the File Information Window of
| | 01:06 |
that document.
And basically, there are only some fields
| | 01:11 |
that InDesign will carry over.
One of course, is the document title.
| | 01:17 |
Which we can fill in here, and we can
call it Around The World in 80 days, okay?
| | 01:25 |
The author, we're going to call it Jules
Verne, okay?
| | 01:32 |
And then also a description.
We can write in here, the story of
| | 01:41 |
Phileas Fogg andUNKNOWN Around the
Planet in 80 days.
| | 01:53 |
Okay, this is some information that may
appear, in an online store, for example.
| | 01:58 |
Just to give a brief description of what
this book is all about.
| | 02:01 |
And then, of course, we can also put in
keywords, such as Verne.
| | 02:06 |
We can put semicolons, or commas can be
used to separate the multiple values.
| | 02:11 |
So we put Verne, Jules, the world.
Okay?
| | 02:15 |
We can put any kinds of keywords that
will represent this document, E-book.
| | 02:20 |
Okay?
So this is something that will be helpful
| | 02:22 |
for people who are actually looking for
the content.
| | 02:26 |
So these are keywords that will also
appear in search results.
| | 02:31 |
Also we can change the copyright notice,
and in this case, this is a public domain
| | 02:35 |
book, so it is not copyrighted.
So we simply click, Public Domain, and
| | 02:40 |
this is it.
This is all of the information that we
| | 02:43 |
can put in this Window.
You will see that there is some
| | 02:46 |
additional Metadata that can be entered
in the digital edition's export options.
| | 02:51 |
For example, the publisher entry, and the
unic identifier, which we'll see in a
| | 02:54 |
short while.
No other Metadata entered in the File
| | 02:58 |
Information Window in InDesign is
exported to ePub.
| | 03:01 |
But you can manually add more using
Sigil.
| | 03:03 |
And Sigil, you've already seen that
application.
| | 03:06 |
Is an application that not only lets us
Edit the ePub File but also add some more Metadata.
| | 03:14 |
But beware this is the only Metadata that
you can actually put inside of the
| | 03:18 |
InDesign file before we export it.
And also, remember to enter the Metadata
| | 03:24 |
in your Cover file, if there is one or in
the first document that will appear in
| | 03:28 |
your ePub.
Metadata applied to any other file will
| | 03:33 |
be completely ignored.
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7. Exporting to EPUBExporting to EPUB| 00:00 |
Now that we have correctly formatted and
styled our text, anchored all images
| | 00:04 |
within the flow of text, created the
cover, added the metadata, created the
| | 00:08 |
book file, and also created the table of
contents, we are ready to export the n
| | 00:13 |
design document to EPUB.
But let's have a quick look at what we
| | 00:19 |
actually did today.
First, we see that we have a table of
| | 00:22 |
contents here that we've created with
cross-references, and if we move down, we
| | 00:26 |
see that we've added some graphics within
the text.
| | 00:31 |
We've styled the text, let's go down a
little bit more, we've added some images
| | 00:36 |
with their captions, we've created
paragraph styles here, and also
| | 00:40 |
characters styles, Bold and Italic.
By the way, in this book, I have created
| | 00:46 |
the Bold style.
But there is nowhere in the book that
| | 00:50 |
this Bold style actually appears, except
for the titles.
| | 00:55 |
But in our case, the Bold is already
applied by paragraph styles.
| | 01:00 |
So we can very confidently, just remove
the Bold and trash it.
| | 01:05 |
Okay?
And InDesign will ask us if we want to
| | 01:08 |
replace anything that is styled with
Bold, which we now know is only the titles.
| | 01:14 |
We can just replace it with None.
Let's say OK to this.
| | 01:19 |
And that style is now gone.
Making our CSS even smaller, because we
| | 01:23 |
don't need the definition of Bold, okay,
in this document.
| | 01:27 |
There's actually two ways that we can
export that EPUB.
| | 01:32 |
One is from a single InDesign document.
We can choose File > Export for > EPUB,
| | 01:38 |
and then Export only that document to
ePub.
| | 01:43 |
Or, from within the Book panel, which
includes the cover and the text, we can
| | 01:47 |
go to the little menu here, and we can
choose Export book to EPUB.
| | 01:53 |
And this is exactly what we want to do,
so let's do this, Export to EPUB.
| | 01:59 |
We're going to put it on our desktop, in
our tutorial files here.
| | 02:07 |
Let's go here in the right chapter,
Chapter 7, and we're going to save the
| | 02:11 |
Jules Verne EPUB right here.
Actually, the name of the EPUB is picked
| | 02:17 |
up by the name of the book file.
All right?
| | 02:20 |
So let's save this, and in the following
parts, I will be explaining each one of
| | 02:26 |
those windows that we will have to look
at when exporting to EPUB.
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| General export options| 00:02 |
Let's now have a look at the general
options for digital additions export.
| | 00:07 |
The first choice we have to make is
whether to include the document metadata.
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Select this option to export the metadata
entered in the file information dialog box.
| | 00:17 |
The one that we've created in the cover
file by going to File, File information.
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If you're exporting from a book file,
just make sure that the document you
| | 00:27 |
specify as a style source also includes
that meta data before you export to the
| | 00:30 |
e-pub file.
Metadata included in other files, than
| | 00:35 |
the source file, will not be exported.
So it is important that, the source file
| | 00:40 |
here, actually contains the metadata.
And we can include this, inside of our eBook.
| | 00:47 |
We can also add publisher entry.
This metadata fill is not available in
| | 00:51 |
the File information, dialog box, but
you can add here, the publisher information.
| | 00:57 |
For example we could the URL for the
publisher.
| | 01:01 |
As far as unique identifier goes the most
common unique identifier for and ebook
| | 01:06 |
or any book is the International Standard
Book Number or ISBN.
| | 01:12 |
You can specify this number here in this
unique identifier attribute.
| | 01:17 |
The epub 5 format requires a unique
identifier.
| | 01:20 |
If it were not present, your eBook may
not go through the checks that some of
| | 01:24 |
the online stores have set up.
If you leave this field empty, on the
| | 01:28 |
other hand, InDesign will automatically
create a unique identifier for you.
| | 01:33 |
But most likely this is not the number
you want to use.
| | 01:36 |
So check with the system you want to
publish to if you do need an ISBN, or if
| | 01:40 |
you can use your own unique identifying
number.
| | 01:44 |
For example I have published a book on
Amazon, where I did not have an ISBN
| | 01:48 |
number, and it went through the process.
So it accepted the unique identifier that
| | 01:55 |
InDesign actually put in that field.
As far as the reading order goes, we can
| | 02:01 |
base the reading order on the page
layout, or on the XML structure, if there
| | 02:06 |
is one.
We've seen earlier how you can transform
| | 02:10 |
a document of non linear structure, let's
say, into a document that has an XML structure.
| | 02:17 |
And that, then can define the reading
order of your publication.
| | 02:21 |
In the case that you have bullets, and
numbers, in lists, for example, you can
| | 02:26 |
actually map those to unordered lists.
Unordered lists is how they are called in
| | 02:32 |
XHTML, or convert them to text.
Okay?
| | 02:36 |
But converting them to text, they will
actually lose their bullet properties,
| | 02:40 |
and bullets will become bullet character.
And the same thing of course, goes for numbers.
| | 02:46 |
Mapping to order list.
Order list is what they are called in html.
| | 02:51 |
Numbered list, or you can simply map them
to a static order list or convert them to text.
| | 02:58 |
Converting them to text again will remove
their automatic way of numbering
| | 03:03 |
paragraphs that the bullets and numbers
have been actually applied on.
| | 03:09 |
And then, last but not least, we have
here the possibility to check this box
| | 03:14 |
here, to actually view the eBook after
exporting.
| | 03:19 |
I usually always check that, so that the
eBook opens right after I exported it, so
| | 03:24 |
that I can check it in Siegel or Adobe
Digital Editions.
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| Image export options| 00:01 |
The next panel we need to look at is the
Images Option here.
| | 00:06 |
Images that are included in your ePub are
very similar to the ones you view daily
| | 00:10 |
while browsing the web.
The file formats are even the same, JPEG
| | 00:15 |
and JIF.
Optimizing images for ePub is very
| | 00:18 |
important to keep the ePub file as small
as possible and to also to reduce the
| | 00:21 |
computing power the eBook reader needs to
display them.
| | 00:25 |
When creating layouts in InDesign, you
typically use high resolution images for
| | 00:29 |
print, 300 dpi or more.
Well, that resolution, of course, is far
| | 00:33 |
too high for an eBook.
So InDesign, let's you automatically
| | 00:37 |
create optimized versions of your images.
So, that they will display well in the
| | 00:41 |
eBook reader.
If you select formatting here InDesign
| | 00:45 |
will preserve a formatting such as
rotation or scale as much as possible for
| | 00:49 |
the images in the ePub.
In this case, if this is selected the
| | 00:54 |
exported images are reformatted or down
sampled to the size to which you have
| | 00:57 |
scaled them in your InDesign document.
And you really have no control over how
| | 01:03 |
the resampling is done, what method is
being used to resample your images or graphics.
| | 01:10 |
And this can lead to unexpected results
or even image degradation, also be aware
| | 01:14 |
that all images will be converted to the
RGB color mode.
| | 01:19 |
That's a good reason, also to work in the
RGB color mode from the beginning.
| | 01:24 |
Remember, from the very beginning, when
we created the document, we told end
| | 01:28 |
design that the intention was web so the
transparency module is already set to RGB.
| | 01:34 |
And also all images have their resolution
down sampled to 72 dpi to reduce the file
| | 01:40 |
size in the generate ePub file.
If you choose not to select formatted,
| | 01:46 |
any formatting applied to your images
will be discarded.
| | 01:50 |
The images however will still be
converted to RGB color mode except grey
| | 01:54 |
scale images, and their resolution will
be change to 72 dpi, if it is not already.
| | 02:00 |
This is why in our e book here we've
imported the images already optimized.
| | 02:06 |
They were optimized using photo shop or
fireworks from Photoshop I use the save
| | 02:11 |
for web feature, which allows me to make
very, very small JPEGs.
| | 02:17 |
And then I used those JPEGs to be laid
out inside of my InDesign document.
| | 02:23 |
As far as image conversion here goes,
this lets you choose whether the images
| | 02:27 |
in your document are converted to GIF or
JPEG, or you can even choose automatic.
| | 02:32 |
InDesign will then decide automatically,
which formats to use in each instance and
| | 02:34 |
it will do that for you.
But as with all things automatic, there
| | 02:34 |
is really no way of knowing how and why
inDesign makes its choices and what file
| | 02:34 |
format to choose.
The difference here, is that GIF uses a
| | 02:42 |
limited color palette, that cannot exceed
256 colors.
| | 02:57 |
So this is the best choice for maybe
logos or simple graphics images that
| | 03:01 |
have, like flat colors, all right?
The JPEG option, on the other hand, is
| | 03:06 |
the format that is best for images and
illustrations with blends or gradients.
| | 03:11 |
So if your document combines both types
of images, choose Automatic.
| | 03:16 |
Otherwise, choose the Compression Method
that best fits your content.
| | 03:21 |
In our case here, what we have is a
series of images that are already in the
| | 03:25 |
JPEG format.
So, what I'm going to tell InDesign to do
| | 03:30 |
is to simply choose JPEG as the export
option.
| | 03:35 |
But let's quickly move back and also
check out the automatic version here.
| | 03:40 |
Because there are some things that you
can choose in the two different parts of
| | 03:44 |
that window.
First, in the JIF Options, well you can
| | 03:49 |
choose between Adaptive, Web, System
Colors, and System Colors for Macintosh.
| | 03:56 |
Basically, what these are Its a way of
reducing the color palette available in
| | 04:01 |
the GIF, adoptive here the no dither
creates a palette using a representative
| | 04:05 |
sample of colors in the image without any
dithering, or added noise to the image to
| | 04:09 |
stimulate a larger spectrum of color,
adoptive is actually your best choice for
| | 04:14 |
GIF optimization out of InDesign.
The Web Option, on the other hand,
| | 04:22 |
creates a palette of 216 web safe colors.
I'd say that this option has almost
| | 04:27 |
become obsolete, because most devices are
capable of viewing color images.
| | 04:33 |
That are far more superior to 256 colors,
which was really the limit for 8-bit
| | 04:37 |
graphic cards.
And the same thing goes for the system
| | 04:42 |
colors, Windows or Mac, which creates a
palette using the built in operating
| | 04:46 |
system palette of 256 colors, some of
which defer between Windows and Mac.
| | 04:52 |
As with the web colors up here, this
options has become obsolete, as it is no
| | 04:56 |
longer necessary to optimize colors for
various operating systems.
| | 05:01 |
If you choose interlace here, this lets
you determine how your GIF will be
| | 05:05 |
rendered in the viewing device.
If it is checked, and this option
| | 05:10 |
actually, slightly increases the file
size of the GIF, the interlace option
| | 05:13 |
here, lets you determine how your GIF
will be rendered in the viewing device.
| | 05:19 |
Interlace GIF load one line at a time,
gradually increasing the resolution of
| | 05:24 |
the image until it is fully loaded.
Since the gypsy will be producing for
| | 05:29 |
you, ePub are not loaded on a web page
and are serve locally within the ePub
| | 05:33 |
file, there is really no sense in
selecting this option.
| | 05:37 |
Also because if this option is checked,
the file size increases slightly.
| | 05:41 |
Let's look at the JPEG options here.
Of course, we can choose the image
| | 05:47 |
quality, and we can from a very low
quality, to a maximum quality.
| | 05:53 |
After running some tests, at various
image quality settings, I noticed that
| | 05:57 |
the quality itself is hardly affected,
but the image size is impacted dramatically.
| | 06:03 |
For example, a JPEG exported as it's
maximum quality results in to be 238
| | 06:08 |
kilobyte and the same file size exported
with low quality was 45 kilobyte that is
| | 06:13 |
more than 80% better compression.
So, to choose the JPEG compression that
| | 06:21 |
fits your particular photos, just run
different tests on the quality and on the
| | 06:25 |
compression ratios.
And then decide what compression and
| | 06:30 |
image deterioration level you can live
with inside of your ePub, all right?
| | 06:35 |
So, image quality you choose from here.
As far as the formatting method of JPEG
| | 06:39 |
goes, it's quite similar to the JIF, a
progressive creates images that increase
| | 06:44 |
in detail as they are downloaded.
And baseline creates images that display
| | 06:51 |
only after they have been completely
downloaded.
| | 06:55 |
But again, since the images are bundled
within the ePub, and that they are
| | 06:58 |
delivered directly on the reading device
the best choice is just to use the
| | 07:02 |
baseline formatting method, okay?
This is the one, not progressive.
| | 07:07 |
Progressive will also in this case make
the file size slightly larger, all right?
| | 07:12 |
So in this panel here, we have everything
we need to actually decide the
| | 07:16 |
compression of the images inside of our
ePub.
| | 07:20 |
So in our case, we will leave it on JPEG
dithering out the JIF options here and
| | 07:25 |
leave the image quality on medium.
Because I have quite some detail in the
| | 07:32 |
images, they are all black and white
etchings.
| | 07:35 |
I need a higher quality, like the medium
one and the format method we will leave baseline.
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| Content export options| 00:00 |
The next panel is the Contents panel.
And here we can choose the format for the
| | 00:07 |
EPUB Content, how the table of contents
is generated, and the CSS options.
| | 00:13 |
In the format, automatically selected is
HTML.
| | 00:18 |
XHTML exports the content as Extended
Hypertext Markup Language, which is the
| | 00:24 |
standard for EPUB.
DT book is an acronym for Daisy Digital
| | 00:29 |
Talking book, also called Daisy XML, is
an XML based document file format.
| | 00:35 |
The DT Book format is used for making
content accessible to people with disabilities.
| | 00:40 |
But it's not compatible with all ebook
readers.
| | 00:43 |
So, use this option only if you know that
you need to cater to devices that
| | 00:47 |
actually use that technology.
The table of contents.
| | 00:52 |
The table of contents is the navigation
system of your EPUB.
| | 00:56 |
So it is very important to provide your
readers with a good and meaningful
| | 00:58 |
structure that will bring them to the
information that they need.
| | 01:02 |
You can later edit that tok using Sigil.
But what we'll need to do is to include
| | 01:07 |
the InDesign TOK Entries.
So we're going to select this and choose
| | 01:12 |
our TOK Style that we've created earlier,
the ebook TOK, okay?
| | 01:18 |
So we can choose the TOK Style right
here.
| | 01:21 |
And basically, just to wrap it up on
this, is that, if you choose this option,
| | 01:25 |
you are creating a talk for your EPUB
based on the TOK Style that you've
| | 01:28 |
chosen, in the table of contents
definitions.
| | 01:33 |
This is actually the best way to create a
TOK, that will include all your header
| | 01:36 |
ones, and in our case, also the header
twos of the chapters.
| | 01:41 |
Remember that in order for this to work
you need to first create a table of
| | 01:45 |
contents, on the first document of your
ebook.
| | 01:48 |
And if you're exporting from a book file,
make sure that the document containing
| | 01:53 |
the TOK style is specified as the style
source export with the EPUB file.
| | 01:58 |
Otherwise the TOK style will not be
available in this textile menu.
| | 02:03 |
So, whenever this remains greyed out,
just check that you've correctly done the
| | 02:08 |
table of contents on the cover documents.
Suppress automatic entries for documents.
| | 02:16 |
If unchecked, this option is useful if
you have documents in your InDesign book
| | 02:20 |
structure that have no level one headers.
The cover, or any front matter, for example.
| | 02:26 |
If this is not checked, a table of
contents will be created using the file names.
| | 02:32 |
Use First Level Entries as Chapter Breaks
as something we may want to select.
| | 02:37 |
Because if you ebook is laid out in a
single, long InDesign document, make sure
| | 02:41 |
to choose this option to separate the
long file into many smaller files based
| | 02:45 |
on the first level entries, the Header 1
paragraph style, for example.
| | 02:51 |
And we applied it here, chapter 1 that's
a header 1 okay?
| | 02:56 |
So, InDesign will automatically create a
chapter break and a separate XHTML file,
| | 03:02 |
every time it encounters that first level
entry.
| | 03:07 |
Another thing that you should note, other
than separating your documents in various
| | 03:12 |
files using first level entries, InDesign
will also cut your documents if they
| | 03:18 |
exceed 260 KBs.
Every time a content exceeds that size,
| | 03:23 |
InDesign will automatically create a new
XHTML file that begins at the start of a
| | 03:28 |
paragraph between first level entries to
avoid the 300 KB file size limit.
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So if you see your chapter suddenly
breaking up into several XHTML documents
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instead of one, don't worry about it,
that's only InDesign helping you out
| | 03:44 |
keeping the file under the three hundred
kilobyte file size limit.
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Let's now have a look at the CSS options.
Cascading Style Sheets are essential for
| | 03:57 |
the formatting of your text.
We have three options here.
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We can generate CSS, we can export only
the style names or use an existing CSS
| | 04:05 |
file, which can come in very handy once
you've worked on a CSS file to make it better.
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But let's look at the first one here,
this option will generate a CSS file
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based on the paragraph and character
styles defined in the InDesign document
| | 04:20 |
including all formatting information.
Preserve local overrides, actually
| | 04:26 |
preserve local formatting such as Italic,
or Bold.
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Local formatting should however be
avoided because InDesign will
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automatically generate tags for that
formatting.
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Tags that are different from the ones
that we painstakingly created in our
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paragraph styles and character styles in
this case.
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As far as including embeddable fonts is
concerned, as of InDesign CS5, InDesign
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can include a subset of fonts.
So instead of including the whole font,
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which could be hefty file.
InDesign will include only the fonts that
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are strictly necessary to display the
content that we've created inside of our EPUB.
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I tend not to include the fonts because
not all ebook readers actually can read those.
| | 05:13 |
So it would only make my EPUB heavier
than necessary if I include those.
| | 05:19 |
So, in generating the CSS here, I usually
turn off Preserve Local Overrides, and I
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turn off, Including Inbatible Files.
I only want to include the style
| | 05:30 |
definitions that I've created in
paragraph styles here, and in my
| | 05:33 |
character styles.
So now when you're ready to export the
| | 05:38 |
final Epub file, simply Click here on
Export.
| | 05:42 |
And then open the file in Adobe Digital
Editions or Sigil or a default ebook
| | 05:45 |
reader to view the results.
If you find some mistakes, just return to
| | 05:50 |
the original InDesign document, make the
necessary changes and then Export the
| | 05:54 |
EPUB file again.
We're going to close this video by
| | 05:58 |
exporting the file and checking out
exactly what came out.
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So, export.
In design is taking my two files here.
| | 06:06 |
The Cover file and the Content file, and
created it here, and we are now in Sigil
| | 06:11 |
a file that includes my cover.
You can see, we have the Cover file here,
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and then we have the beginning of the
text, with the table of contents, which
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is all hyperlinked.
And then we go to text one, which is the
| | 06:26 |
first chapter.
With my little graphic here.
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My images and their captions.
As I move down I will probably also
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seeINAUDIBLE two coming around here.
Okay, let's move down, and let's check
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chapter two for a second.
All right, this is only text.
| | 06:45 |
Chapter three.
We have the little graphic again.
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Everything is formatted as we wanted
inside of InDesign.
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And I think, in chapter three, we even
have our table.
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So as you can see, exporting your
InDesign content is very very easy.
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And making the right decisions only
depends on how you want to compress the images.
| | 07:10 |
And how you want to generate the CSS
files for the EPUB.
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8. Customizing an EPUBWhat's inside an EPUB archive?| 00:02 |
To view exactly what is contained in an
e-pub file, and that's a rather geeky
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thing to do, you simply need to change
the extension of the file from epub to zip.
| | 00:12 |
So what I'm going to do here is duplicate
that file and simply change the extension
| | 00:17 |
to zip, to have it as zipped file,
because basically this is what it is.
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An epub is a zipped file that contains
other files.
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So we're going to use zip in this case.
And you see already that the mac is now
| | 00:30 |
recognizing this as something that you
can open.
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And if I control click on this, I can
decide to open it with either the archive
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utility on the mac which won't work
because.
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It's not able to open that sort of zip
file, so what you need is the free stuff
| | 00:46 |
it expander to actually open that file to
have a peek in it.
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Like I said, this is a rather geeky thing
to do, so let's use stuff it expander,
| | 00:57 |
and what we have now is a new folder that
contains two other folders.
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1 contains the OEPBS.
The open ebook publication structure folder.
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Which contains all of your images.
The table of contents.
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The cascading style sheets.
And all the XHTML files that are inside
| | 01:17 |
of your ebook.
So let's have a quick look at this.
| | 01:20 |
And we see that we have, yes, the cover.
We have all of our images, the JPEGS.
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And we also have the cover image here.
Perfect.
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And then we have the CSS and all of the
XHTML files that actually make up our ePub.
| | 01:38 |
The meta INF folder contains the required
file container XML.
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This one here.
This XML file points to the file defining
| | 01:49 |
the content of the ebook, which in this
case is the content OPF in the OEBPS
| | 01:53 |
folder, right here, content OPF.
So let's just open it very quickly
| | 01:59 |
Control, click, open with and I'm going
to choose other, because all I want to do
| | 02:04 |
is actually look at the text.
So we're going to open it with text edit, okay.
| | 02:10 |
And here we go, this is a simple path to
where the OEBPS.
| | 02:17 |
Content OPF is located.
Okay?
| | 02:20 |
And this is one of those files that is
necessary for the epub to actually open.
| | 02:25 |
The .OPF file on the other hand contains
the epub metadata, the file manifest, and
| | 02:30 |
also the linear reading order.
So let's open this as well.
| | 02:37 |
Control click, open with other, and we're
going to choose text edit again, just to
| | 02:41 |
peek at the text that is included in
here.
| | 02:46 |
And we can see that it has all of the
meta data, okay here we have to look at
| | 02:49 |
it a little bit more carefully cause
there's a lot more stuff here.
| | 02:55 |
But we can recognize stuff like the title
Around The World In 80 Day's The creator,
| | 02:59 |
Jules Verne, and then we have the various
subjects, which are the keywords that
| | 03:04 |
we've actually added inside of the cover
file, by using file, file info, and then
| | 03:08 |
adding the necessary metadata.
And then we have the manifest elements,
| | 03:16 |
which lists all of the files contained in
the package.
| | 03:21 |
And this allows for checking the
integrity of an epub file to make sure
| | 03:25 |
that nothing is missing.
So an ebook reader, on opening the epub
| | 03:29 |
will actually look into that file and see
if all of the files that need to be
| | 03:33 |
referenced are actually in the package
itself.
| | 03:38 |
And then here, towards the end, we
actually have something called the spine,
| | 03:42 |
and this lists all of the xhtml document
in their linear order.
| | 03:47 |
Here we go.
So, first it has the cover and then we
| | 03:50 |
have the various text file, which starts
with text, and then we have text one,
| | 03:55 |
text three.
All the way to text nine.
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And then also a list of all of the
images.
| | 04:03 |
That have been included in that epub.
Let's close this and look at the last
| | 04:08 |
file here, which is the tuck mcx.
All right?
| | 04:12 |
So let's open this as well.
Open with other and choose the text edit
| | 04:16 |
again and open that file.
And basically what this is NCX stands for
| | 04:22 |
Navigation Control for XML.
And it contains the hierarchical table of
| | 04:28 |
contents for the epub file, which will
then be used by ebook readers to display
| | 04:32 |
it as an interactive table of contents.
Okay?
| | 04:36 |
This is, not unlike the table of contents
we've actually created inside of the
| | 04:39 |
e-book, using cross-references.
This is the actual table of contents that
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was automatically generated by InDesign.
And that will be shown inside of menus
| | 04:50 |
inside of the ebook reading device, or
the ebook reading software.
| | 04:56 |
So as you can see, the epub archive
contains everything that's needed to
| | 05:00 |
check and to display the content
properly.
| | 05:03 |
Well, thankfully InDesign does all of
that for us.
| | 05:06 |
I advise you, especially at the beginning
stages, not to change anything inside of
| | 05:11 |
this structure.
Because just changing the name of a file,
| | 05:15 |
for example, could then cause all of
these controls to actually fail, okay?
| | 05:20 |
And your ePub would probably not validate
anymore, when you upload it to a store.
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| Working with the CSS file| 00:02 |
So as we've seen, an ePub is essentially
a series of XHTML documents that are
| | 00:06 |
styled by a cascading style sheet, a CSS.
The export out of InDesign is good, but
| | 00:12 |
there are some things that can be done to
make the resulting ePub even better.
| | 00:17 |
So let's open the ePub.
Here, let's open the last one, JulesVerne.epub.
| | 00:22 |
And open it and since it automatically
launches, and, again, we can see the
| | 00:27 |
structure here.
We can see all the texts inside of the
| | 00:31 |
text folder, which we can twirl, open and
closed, and also the styles.
| | 00:37 |
Here they are, template.css, and this is
exactly what we're going to work on.
| | 00:42 |
And down here, we have all of the images
that are contained in the ePub and if we
| | 00:47 |
had chosen to embed the fonts, they would
be here as well.
| | 00:52 |
So the Sigil application lets you open,
view and edit the CSS file that InDesign
| | 00:57 |
has automatically created on ePub export.
If you want to know more about Sigil,
| | 01:04 |
you can always go up here into the Help
menu, and check out the User manual.
| | 01:10 |
But basically everything we are going to
do now are very simple things and I don't
| | 01:14 |
think you need a manual to understand
them.
| | 01:17 |
But what really happened is that all
paragraph and character styles of the
| | 01:21 |
InDesign documents are now mapped to
styles contained in this CSS file over here.
| | 01:28 |
And there are many things you can do to
that CSS to make the ebook reading
| | 01:31 |
experience even better.
So let's open it for a second.
| | 01:34 |
And also remember that the benefit of
having a single CSS here is that the
| | 01:39 |
formatting options you change in this
text will actually be applied to all of
| | 01:44 |
the XHTML documents that we have up here.
Which means that you make the change once
| | 01:52 |
and actually apply the changes to all of
the text inside of your ePub.
| | 01:58 |
First of all, let's look at what we have
in here.
| | 02:00 |
We have a class called a divider
generated style, and this is a style that
| | 02:04 |
is automatically generated by InDesign
and which basically defines the area of
| | 02:09 |
our body text, and everything in between.
And then we have all of our header 1,
| | 02:17 |
header 2, the image style, the body
style.
| | 02:23 |
The style for the caption and also these
two styles down here, span italic and
| | 02:27 |
span bold, which we've deleted by the
way.
| | 02:32 |
So we only have span italic, okay, which
is font weight normal, font style italic,
| | 02:37 |
so what we're going to do now is edit
those and make sure that our ePub really
| | 02:41 |
looks the way it should.
Okay, and there's a lot of cleaning up we
| | 02:47 |
can do here, but before we do that we
need to learn exactly what these thing
| | 02:50 |
actually mean.
Font family, font weight, font style, all
| | 02:56 |
the way down to margin.
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| CSS tags in the EPUB| 00:00 |
So before you go and edit the CSS file,
it is important to know what can be done,
| | 00:05 |
and where.
So let's investigate each tag that in
| | 00:10 |
Design automatically generated for us.
And we're going to investigate them in
| | 00:14 |
order, to exactly understand what values
can be changed, inside of these CSS properties.
| | 00:20 |
Let's look at this first one.
The Font family, this specifies the Font
| | 00:24 |
Family for text.
And there are actually 2 types of Font
| | 00:28 |
Family names.
There's a family name, which could be
| | 00:32 |
something like Minion Pro, Garamond, or
Myriad.
| | 00:36 |
Basically declaring a font for your text.
And this is useful when you know that a
| | 00:41 |
specific font is available on the device
that you are targeting.
| | 00:46 |
Or if you have embedded your font inside
of the ePub.
| | 00:50 |
This is a really strange situation here,
because it's really, really hard to
| | 00:54 |
understand which fonts are available.
So what I prefer to do is to use the
| | 00:58 |
generic family names.
And generic family names can be things
| | 01:03 |
like Serif, San Serif, Cursive, Fantasy,
or Monospace.
| | 01:08 |
So in this case, since we're talking
about Jules Verne's book, I really would
| | 01:12 |
like the font, at least to be a Sarif
font, because I wouldn't want to see my
| | 01:16 |
text in a San Sarif font, like a
Helvetica for example.
| | 01:23 |
So what I'm going to do, I'm simply going
to replace the Minion Pro with the word serif.
| | 01:28 |
Okay?
To force any kind of serif font that is
| | 01:31 |
available on my target device or my
target application.
| | 01:36 |
So let's go here copy this, because this
we are going to paste into all of the
| | 01:41 |
other instances of styles here.
Okay, we have one for each paragraph
| | 01:47 |
style that we've created inside of
InDesign.
| | 01:51 |
Yeah, so just remember that the Font
Family attribute is not supported by many
| | 01:55 |
eBook readers.
A Kindle, for example, always will
| | 01:59 |
default back to its own font called
Caecilia.
| | 02:03 |
Let's move on to the second one here, the
Font Weight.
| | 02:07 |
The Font Weight defines the thickness of
the font.
| | 02:10 |
The default is Normal.
And then you can choose from Bold, Bolder
| | 02:14 |
or Lighter.
All of these can be used here.
| | 02:18 |
So, in the case of my Header 1 and Header
2, we're going to keep the Bold.
| | 02:24 |
In the Image and the Body Text especially
we want the Font Weight to be Normal.
| | 02:30 |
Let's now move on to the Font Style.
The Font Style specifies if the text is
| | 02:36 |
in Italics, and basically what you can
set here is Normal, which is the default.
| | 02:45 |
You can set it to Italic or even the word
oblique.
| | 02:48 |
But Italic will do just fine.
Just like we've used here in our
| | 02:52 |
character style down here to force the
character into an italic position.
| | 02:57 |
The Font Size describes the size of the
font itself.
| | 03:02 |
And in the case of InDesign during export
the value for Font Size is expressed in
| | 03:07 |
ms by default.
In this case for my header for example I
| | 03:11 |
have a value of two m.
But other values can be used such as
| | 03:16 |
xx-small, x-small, small, smaller, medium
which is the default size, large,
| | 03:21 |
x-large, xx-large and this gives you a
good choice of type sizes within your ePub.
| | 03:29 |
You can also use words like smaller,
larger or even use a length in pixels or
| | 03:33 |
ms like it is right here not right now.
Or even a percentage.
| | 03:40 |
So what I like to do in my eBooks, for
example, is to change that value, the
| | 03:45 |
Font Size of the Header one for example,
to 120% like this.
| | 03:51 |
And then the Header two I would leave at
100%.
| | 03:55 |
Like this.
And I'm going to Copy that line.
| | 03:58 |
Because I'm going to Paste it in other
lines here as well.
| | 04:02 |
I'm going to use the Font Size here
again.
| | 04:05 |
At 100% for my images.
And also for my body text, 100%.
| | 04:10 |
And as far as the Caption is concerned,
I'm going to change the Font Size to
| | 04:14 |
something slightly smaller.
Like 80%, so that the text of the Caption
| | 04:19 |
will be smaller than the Normal Body
Text.
| | 04:23 |
Therefore allowing my reader to recognize
the difference.
| | 04:27 |
Especially for when the Caption jumps
onto another screen and doesn't follow
| | 04:30 |
the image directly.
Now we can move on to Lline Height which
| | 04:35 |
is the space between the lines which is
yeah, it's actually the property that
| | 04:39 |
defines the letting between lines of
text.
| | 04:44 |
In this case, it picked it up
automatically from InDesign.
| | 04:47 |
And we can leave it like that.
It's basically 1.2M everywhere.
| | 04:52 |
And we can either leave that empty or
leave what InDesign told us.
| | 04:56 |
Line Height is also something that not
all eBook readers actually support.
| | 05:02 |
And then moving on to Text Decoration,
this is where we can actually decide if a
| | 05:06 |
text has an underline, an overline or a
line through.
| | 05:12 |
In this case, the Text Decoration is none
everywhere.
| | 05:15 |
We have no Underlines and no
Strikethroughs and no Linethroughs in our text.
| | 05:20 |
And theses can also be applied in
InDesign using of course paragraph and
| | 05:23 |
character styles.
In this case they're all left to none.
| | 05:28 |
Then we have the Font Variant.
Basically what this does, it is, it
| | 05:33 |
transforms my text into small caps.
But if the Font Variant is set to small
| | 05:38 |
caps the text will be actually set in
full small caps which is simple a scaled
| | 05:43 |
down version of the upper case letter.
Then we have Text Indent, which property
| | 05:50 |
specifies the indentation of the first
line in a Text Block.
| | 05:55 |
Indenting the first line of text in a
paragraph can be a great visual aid for
| | 05:59 |
the reader.
In our case, what we've done, we've
| | 06:03 |
actually applied some spacing in-between
the paragraphs.
| | 06:06 |
So it's not really necessary to indent
the first line, to guide the reader's eye
| | 06:10 |
to the next paragraph.
InDesign specifies the first line indent
| | 06:15 |
in M's, as a Length Value.
But you can also give a percentage, so
| | 06:20 |
that a percentage of the whole line
length will be applied to it.
| | 06:25 |
Or you can even give it a Pixel value.
For example, 20 Pixel, indent, of the
| | 06:30 |
first line of text.
Then of course, we have the very
| | 06:34 |
important Text Align Property, which
specifies the horizontal alignment of
| | 06:38 |
text in an element.
And we've also used it for the alignment
| | 06:43 |
of images and their captions as well.
The values that can used here are left,
| | 06:49 |
center, right and also justify.
But be careful with justification because
| | 06:56 |
not all eBook readers have hyphenation
engines.
| | 06:59 |
And justified text without good
hyphenation can look, well horrible.
| | 07:04 |
(LAUGH) The Kindle for example always
defaults to justified text unless Text
| | 07:09 |
Align is set to left.
In the case of our body text here, we see
| | 07:14 |
that the text alignment is set to left.
So ideally on the Kindle, or the Kindle
| | 07:20 |
applications, our text should remain
aligned left, unless of course, the
| | 07:24 |
viewer chooses to view it differently.
Now, after the alignment, we have the color.
| | 07:32 |
And this sets the color of the text.
Black text in end design for example is
| | 07:38 |
specified with this Hex Code.
It's little sign here and then 6 zeros.
| | 07:45 |
Use that text color very, very sparingly
because first of all not all eBook
| | 07:49 |
readers display color and colored text
can become difficult to read.
| | 07:54 |
More importantly many users like to read
their eBooks.
| | 07:58 |
Displayed as White Text on a black
background, for example.
| | 08:02 |
So, if you set the color of text to black
and the reader chooses to view it on a
| | 08:06 |
black background, well, the reader won't
see anything.
| | 08:11 |
And last but not least, we have the
Margin here.
| | 08:14 |
The Margin Property sets the horizontal
and vertical spacing and indents for a
| | 08:19 |
whole paragraph.
This property can have one to four values
| | 08:24 |
in the following for example where we
have 0, 0, 0, 42 and 0 basically what
| | 08:29 |
happens is this sets the margin from the
top.
| | 08:35 |
The right, the bottom and the left of the
paragraph.
| | 08:40 |
So you can enter any values here.
You can enter values in Pixels, in M's to
| | 08:45 |
change those Margin values.
So now that you've seen everything that
| | 08:50 |
we can change, let's go back to one of
our text documents here.
| | 08:54 |
Double-click on Text 2, for example, and
move over to the Book view, because now
| | 08:58 |
we are in code view.
Let's see how everything got formatted.
| | 09:04 |
Yes our text has remainedUNKNOWN font.
The chapter number is 100% bigger then
| | 09:12 |
the rest of the text.
And if we move down we see that oh
| | 09:16 |
there's no images here so let's move to
text number 3.
| | 09:21 |
And move down see if there are any
images.
| | 09:24 |
Okay we see our table here and the images
are centered with a Caption under them.
| | 09:31 |
In this case we didn't put a Caption so
let's move over to text number 1 where we did.
| | 09:36 |
Okay so we have all the stylistic things
here happening exactly as wanted with the
| | 09:40 |
Caption smaller than the normal body
text.
| | 09:44 |
And everything is great.
So remember that once you've exported
| | 09:48 |
from InDesign, there is a whole bunch of
stuff that you actually do inside of the
| | 09:53 |
CSS File using the Application Sigil.
Now, remember when you were exporting
| | 10:00 |
your InDesign document for ePub, you had
the choice of linking to an existing CSS File.
| | 10:09 |
So, once you've done the changes in this
text, what you can do is actually save
| | 10:13 |
this CSS File for future use.
So let's set up all of the text, Copy it,
| | 10:19 |
and move over to our Text Editor.
Text Edit, OK, and Open that and grow
| | 10:25 |
into a Plain Text Format, that is very
important.
| | 10:30 |
We don't want this text to be formatted.
And Paste it, okay?
| | 10:33 |
So basically what I've done, I've copied
all of my CSS into a new Text File.
| | 10:39 |
I'm going to save this, Save.
I'm going to put it on my Desktop inside
| | 10:45 |
of the folder so that you can find it
inside of The tweaking Techniques folder.
| | 10:50 |
And I'm going to call it Jewelgurn.css.
Okay, let's save this I'm going to use
| | 10:55 |
the CSS.
Perfect.
| | 10:58 |
And that file is now saved.
So the next time that you actually want
| | 11:04 |
to use the CSS File, let's go back to
InDesign.
| | 11:09 |
You can go to File.
Export for ePub and let's save it into
| | 11:14 |
our folder, into our new Tweaking
Techniques folder and save this here.
| | 11:20 |
What you can do in the contents panel of
the digital additions export option is to
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use an existing CSS File.
And choose it from here, and let's go to
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our folder on the Tweaking Techniques,
and here it is, JulesVerne.css.
| | 11:39 |
And we can open that and directly link to
that, so that we won't have to do this
| | 11:43 |
whole work that we've just done in Sygel,
cleaning up our CSS code.
| | 11:49 |
And there you go.
Simply by tweeking the CSS here and then
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relinking it in InDesign in case you need
to re-export it again.
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| Embedding fonts in an EPUB| 00:00 |
If, in InDesign when you export your ePub
you choose to actually include the
| | 00:05 |
embeddable funds inside of the Digital
Additions Export Options several things
| | 00:10 |
will happen.
First of all the funds will be placed
| | 00:15 |
into the OEBBS folder in your ePub and
we've seen that where we had a peek
| | 00:19 |
inside of the ePub unzipping the file.
And there will also be an at font
| | 00:25 |
declaration in your CSS.
So let's move over to Sigil, just to look
| | 00:29 |
at how this is viewed inside of the CSS.
First of all, we see that the fonts have
| | 00:34 |
indeed been included here.
We have the Minion Pro bold, and the
| | 00:38 |
Minion Pro regular.
InDesign CS5 actually does that in quite
| | 00:42 |
a smart way, because it only embeds a
subset of characters.
| | 00:47 |
It doesn't embed the whole open type font
here, it only embeds the characters that
| | 00:52 |
are needed to display the document.
If we go to the CSS, you will see also
| | 00:57 |
that not only do we have the font family
declaration here, which is Minion Pro,
| | 01:01 |
which now the ePub can cache because you
see we have the at font face declaration
| | 01:06 |
up here.
Which says, this is the Minion Pro and
| | 01:12 |
this is where the fonts are, okay?
So, basically what the reader can do
| | 01:17 |
here, the ebook reader, is actually call
up that font and then display it inside
| | 01:22 |
of the ebook reader.
Remember, however, that many, many ebook
| | 01:28 |
readers do not display embedded fonts.
Embedding fonts therefore only
| | 01:32 |
contributes in making ePub heavier than
it really needs to be.
| | 01:37 |
I believe, however, that as ebook readers
become more sophisticated, this feature
| | 01:40 |
will allow designers to really
personalize their designs in very, very
| | 01:44 |
beautiful ways.
But for now, my advice is, don't embed
| | 01:48 |
fonts in your ePub, you're only going to
make them heavier, and the vast majority
| | 01:53 |
of ebook readers, or ebook reading
applications, won't even be able to
| | 01:58 |
display them.
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| Working with the XHTML code| 00:02 |
Now that you have tweaked your CSS, there
are quite a few things that can be done
| | 00:05 |
in the XHTML files as well.
Sigil actually lets you view the content
| | 00:09 |
of your ebook and edit it.
For example, you could select some text
| | 00:13 |
and then apply a style from the Style
menu appearance of various headings here.
| | 00:18 |
Or maybe I could take some of the text
here and transform that into an italic,
| | 00:23 |
underline, or even a strikethrough, or
even a bold.
| | 00:28 |
Let's put it in bold for a second.
The local formatting applied this way
| | 00:32 |
will actually come over into the XHTML
file.
| | 00:36 |
It'll be transformed into XHTML code.
Let's have a quick look at it.
| | 00:41 |
If you press this button up here, to go
to Code View, we will actually see that
| | 00:46 |
Saville Row now has these two little
XHTML Codes that define it as bold.
| | 00:52 |
And inside the code of course, I could go
in there and remove that code as well, okay.
| | 00:59 |
And basically, what we see here, is that
they are a whole bunch of XML code that
| | 01:04 |
actually came in from our InDesign
export.
| | 01:09 |
So, to quickly explain what all of these
are, I need to show you the structure of
| | 01:14 |
this document.
XHTML code or HTML code always opens.
| | 01:21 |
Okay, like here we have the opening of
HTML and closes at the very end of the
| | 01:26 |
bottom we see that with this little cross
bar here.
| | 01:31 |
We actually have the closing of the HTML
container.
| | 01:35 |
Basically, this is the container that
encloses your heading information and all
| | 01:41 |
of your body tags.
If we move up again, we see there's a
| | 01:45 |
whole section called Header, Head.
And this contains the information about
| | 01:51 |
the document such as the title of the
document, and also very important, the
| | 01:56 |
link to the CSS file.
Okay, so it tells us that the CSS file in
| | 02:02 |
this case is back one folder.
So out of a Text folder, that's the
| | 02:07 |
little two dots here, and then instead of
a folder called Styles, and is called
| | 02:12 |
Template.css, And it also describes what
type of CSS it is.
| | 02:17 |
It is a Textral Cascading style sheet.
Okay, so this the Header of our page.
| | 02:23 |
Basically, the title here is the page of
the document.
| | 02:27 |
You could go in here, and call this not
Text 1 XHTML.
| | 02:33 |
But you could call it Chapter 1, to give
the whole XHTML file even more sense.
| | 02:40 |
Then we have the body.
The body encloses everything that is
| | 02:45 |
actually shown on the page.
And also this, if I move back down all
| | 02:49 |
the way to the bottom of the page, we see
that it closes right in front of the HTML
| | 02:53 |
tag, okay?
So within the body, we have everything
| | 02:57 |
that is actually displayed on the page.
From the let's remove this little a here,
| | 03:04 |
from the chapter name here, all the way
down to the line that we have here.
| | 03:10 |
Let's move back into Code View.
And the other thing that I wanted to
| | 03:14 |
check here is this, the Divider.
Okay, now we start having descriptions of
| | 03:20 |
how the things need to be formatted.
And here in this case, we have a divider
| | 03:25 |
that is within the body, okay.
This is the Closing tag of the Divider
| | 03:30 |
and this is the Opening tag of the
Divider.
| | 03:34 |
And basically, this defines a section
within a chapter, and this can be used
| | 03:38 |
for CSS targeting and formatting, but in
this case it's not really useful.
| | 03:45 |
Ideally, we can also remove the Divider
class.
| | 03:48 |
But I don't want to remove too many
things.
| | 03:50 |
Let's try to make a real ePub with
InDesign.
| | 03:54 |
Then we have this little guy here, which
is basically an anchor.
| | 03:59 |
And the anchor here is simply what the
table of contents that we've created with
| | 04:04 |
cross references, Targets.
All right?
| | 04:07 |
This is right before the Class Header 1,
which we have here, okay?
| | 04:13 |
Header one.
Okay?
| | 04:15 |
And then we have the Class Header 1.
Just like I named it inside of InDesign.
| | 04:19 |
And then we also have the ID of the
anchor.
| | 04:21 |
Which is called Talk anchor.
Okay?
| | 04:24 |
And on other pages we'll probably see
that this is called Talk1 anchor.
| | 04:28 |
Talk2 anchor.
Et cetera.
| | 04:30 |
And basically, this whole line of code
here formats the words Chapter One.
| | 04:36 |
It is enclosed inside of this Header 1
tags.
| | 04:40 |
Then we have a paragraph and if we look
closer at that paragraph we see that the
| | 04:44 |
class therefore, the style that we've
created in InDesign is the Style image.
| | 04:50 |
So in here, we actually have the little
Swoosh that we've created between the
| | 04:56 |
chapter name and the chapter description,
which we have down here.
| | 05:03 |
Header 2.
Okay?
| | 05:04 |
So there's another interesting thing here
in images is that there is a space for
| | 05:09 |
the alt value here.
And InDesign automatically puts in the
| | 05:15 |
name of the file.
But this can be very useful for eBook
| | 05:19 |
readers that don't display images.
So they would display the name of the
| | 05:24 |
file instead.
If it would display just Swoosh.jpeg, it
| | 05:28 |
has no meaning.
What I could put in here is a meaning,
| | 05:32 |
such as graphic divider, okay?
So that people know that they're not
| | 05:36 |
missing anything here.
If on the other hand, we go down to this
| | 05:40 |
other image which is the image of Phileas
Fogg, what I would do is actually copy
| | 05:45 |
the caption that I've created, copy it
and stick that into the image I'll tag here.
| | 05:54 |
So let's paste that in here.
And here we go, now this image has a meaning.
| | 05:58 |
So we've looked at the various headers,
the images, and now let's have a look at
| | 06:03 |
the paragraphs.
Basically the paragraphs are your lines
| | 06:08 |
of text, all right?
This is the first paragraph.
| | 06:11 |
And here we can clearly see that the
class applied to that paragraph is body.
| | 06:18 |
And body refers of course to the style
sheet that is linked up here and goes
| | 06:23 |
back all the way to the template CSS and
formats the text with this body
| | 06:27 |
information here.
So let's move back to the text and
| | 06:33 |
continue working on that having a quick
look.
| | 06:37 |
There's also one thing that we see which
InDesign repeats a lot, and that is this
| | 06:43 |
xml:lang, English USA.
And then, it also defines the name space
| | 06:48 |
of the XML of that page.
I don't see a good reason why this
| | 06:53 |
element should be repeated so much.
So what I usually do is to copy that,
| | 06:59 |
this xml:lang.
Part, lets just, copy the second.
| | 07:04 |
Because basically, all this does, it
describes what language the document is in.
| | 07:10 |
And this probably is very useful for when
the eBook reader needs to define how to
| | 07:14 |
hyphenate the words, for example.
And lets copy this whole string of words here.
| | 07:21 |
Which, I don't really need in my
document.
| | 07:24 |
I actually need it, but I'm going to put
it up here inside of the body section.
| | 07:30 |
So I can cut it out, and then Cmd+F opens
the Find dialog box inside of Sigil.
| | 07:36 |
And we have a very neat replace function
here so I can say find the string of
| | 07:40 |
words and replace it with nothing.
To actually delete it from the file.
| | 07:45 |
And I can look in the current file or all
HTML files That are in my book.
| | 07:51 |
I'm going to do it in the current file
for now.
| | 07:53 |
I'm going to say Find Next.
Okay, it found it and Replace.
| | 07:58 |
It goes to the next, and I can replace
them all at that point.
| | 08:02 |
Allr ight.
29 times and as you can see, my HTML is
| | 08:05 |
now much, much cleaner, all right?
Each paragraph starts only with the
| | 08:10 |
paragraph, and then the clasp to actually
formulate the paragraph itself.
| | 08:15 |
Now, remember that the information that
we've just cut out is useful, so let's
| | 08:19 |
put it here inside of the Body tag so
that it defines the whole area.
| | 08:26 |
Okay?
Everything is contained in the body area
| | 08:29 |
is actually in the English USA language.
And this is the name space.
| | 08:34 |
What the XML actually uses the check the
integrity of what we've done inside of
| | 08:39 |
that document.
So as you can see, this was entirely not
| | 08:43 |
necessary to actually remove this text,
it just makes the file a little bit smaller.
| | 08:48 |
But a little bit of knowledge of CSS and
XHTML is actually necessary to work with eBooks.
| | 08:56 |
Especially when you want to make it
better.
| | 08:59 |
Now, if we go back to the normal Book
View, we see that our eBook is now well formatted.
| | 09:07 |
And we are almost ready to Save it and
Publish it to wherever we need to Publish
| | 09:13 |
it to.
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| Fixing the hyperlink bug in InDesign CS5| 00:02 |
Let's now see how to fix the hyperlink
bug for footnotes and cross-references.
| | 00:06 |
And that goes for InDesign CS5 version
7.0.3.
| | 00:12 |
So, if you have a more recent version
than that, please check before you
| | 00:14 |
actually go through the pain of doing
this.
| | 00:17 |
Footnotes and cross-references are very
important part of an eBook because they
| | 00:21 |
allow for faster navigation from a
footnote number to its text and maybe
| | 00:25 |
from one section of the eBook to another.
Unfortunately, there is this really nasty
| | 00:32 |
bug in InDesign which prevents these
hyperlinks from working, especially when
| | 00:36 |
we divide a single InDesign document in
several XHTML files.
| | 00:42 |
So, what exactly is the problem?
You see, if I click on these links, which
| | 00:46 |
I've created as cross-references inside
of InDesign, nothing works.
| | 00:51 |
I'm not going to the correct pages.
So, to understand what actually happens
| | 00:56 |
here, we need to go into the Code view.
The Code view will allow us to see
| | 01:02 |
exactly what the problem is.
You see that right now, we are in a file
| | 01:07 |
called textxhtml and this is where we
have our table of contents.
| | 01:13 |
The problem is that InDesign was thinking
it was all inside of the same document.
| | 01:19 |
So, basically, what it did it simply put
the name of the text anchor without
| | 01:23 |
specifying the file that this text anchor
is in.
| | 01:28 |
And the way to solve this problem is to
actually insert manually the name of the file.
| | 01:35 |
In this case, this is the Chapter 1
title, we need to insert text, a little
| | 01:40 |
hyphen number 1.xhtml, all right, right
before the anchor name, okay, because
| | 01:45 |
this is the correct way to actually
define the link.
| | 01:52 |
So, I'm going to do that to all of the
links because it is very important that
| | 01:57 |
these hyperlinks actually work.
It's not only important that they work
| | 02:02 |
and here, I'm going to do the number 2
chapter and here as well, and as I go
| | 02:06 |
along, I will explain exactly why this is
important.
| | 02:12 |
Because many eBook devices or eBook
publishing systems will actually not let
| | 02:16 |
you publish an ePub with faulty links
because they will report back to you and
| | 02:20 |
say, no, no, there's errors in the links,
you can't actually publish the ePub as is.
| | 02:28 |
So, this is why we need to painstakingly
go into our code here and actually
| | 02:32 |
replace those hyperlinks, oh, that's
still number 4 by hand, okay?
| | 02:38 |
So, this is going to be rather boring,
we're going to Chapter 5 here, and then
| | 02:43 |
again to Chapter 5, this is the
underlying text like this.
| | 02:48 |
And then, maybe we can add another one
here for Chapter 6.
| | 02:52 |
Then I will also show you a way that you
can actually do this automatically
| | 02:55 |
avoiding the whole problem.
But it was important for me to show you
| | 03:00 |
that you can actually do it manually if
you have just a simple table of contents
| | 03:04 |
like I have here.
And maybe if you have a kind of footnotes
| | 03:09 |
and cross-references all across your
book, you may want to find out about the
| | 03:13 |
other solution I'm going to talk about.
So here, we're at number 9 and I'm going
| | 03:19 |
to put at here for the last anchor.
Here, we go to 9 and 9 again.
| | 03:24 |
All right.
So, at that point ,all my hyperlinks
| | 03:27 |
should be fixed.
So, if we go back to the Book view here,
| | 03:31 |
if I press on Chapter 4, boom, we indeed
go to Chapter 4.
| | 03:37 |
So now, my hyperlinks actually do work.
Now, there is a system that I wanted to
| | 03:42 |
show you and here, I'm going over to
Safari to present to you the website of
| | 03:46 |
Teus de Jong, a developer from Holland,
and, who actually created a script that
| | 03:51 |
can help you get rid of that problem.
If you go to his homepage, which is at
| | 03:59 |
www.teusdejong.nl, the Netherlands.
Inside of the InDesign utilities, if you
| | 04:06 |
move down at the bottom of the page, you
will see that there is a script for the
| | 04:10 |
correction of links in ePubs made with
InDesign CS5.
| | 04:16 |
So right now, this problem is still
actual, so here, you can find a solution.
| | 04:21 |
Teus here explains exactly where you need
to install these scripts, and then, you
| | 04:26 |
can run the ePub export directly just
simply using his script.
| | 04:33 |
So, to close this theme about the problem
that we find in these hyperlinks, my
| | 04:37 |
advice to you is as long as the problem
is not really solved, and if you need to
| | 04:42 |
work with hyperlinks and cross-references
and footnotes inside of your documents,
| | 04:47 |
either use Teus' script, or try to use
them as little as possible, because the
| | 04:52 |
manual workaround is a really, really
painful one.
| | 05:00 |
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| Previewing the ebook| 00:02 |
So, now that we've done everything
correctly.
| | 00:05 |
And actually, formatted our text and
images inside of InDesign, exported the
| | 00:09 |
ePub, checked the CSS file, tweaked the
XHTML a little bit and fixed any
| | 00:13 |
cross-reference errors.
We are ready to actually publish the book.
| | 00:20 |
This is a fully fledged ePub and this can
be now uploaded for any service.
| | 00:25 |
For example, the iBookstore or the Amazon
Digital Publishing Platform.
| | 00:30 |
But before we do that, I would like to
show you the last thing that is important here.
| | 00:35 |
First of all, I am going to open the
Kindle Previewer, which I have installed
| | 00:39 |
on my machine.
And from the Kindle Previewer, I will
| | 00:43 |
open the ePub that we have just created.
File, Open Book, and we see here that I
| | 00:49 |
have the Jules Verne ePub inside of the
tweaking techniques, and I will open that.
| | 00:56 |
Basically, what the Kindle Previewer does
is go through the ePub and transform it
| | 01:02 |
into it's own MOBI format.
Okay?
| | 01:06 |
But then, interesting thing here is that,
by doing this, it actually checks the
| | 01:10 |
file for integrity.
And if there were any errors, for
| | 01:14 |
example, hyperlinks that were unresolved
inside of the ePub, it would give you out warnings.
| | 01:22 |
The other interesting thing is that it
automatically creates the MOBI file, the
| | 01:26 |
file for the Amazon Kindle.
So, we can say OK to that.
| | 01:30 |
Actually, we can also look at the
compilation details here.
| | 01:34 |
And we can see that everything went well,
all of the files were checked, the images
| | 01:40 |
were checked, the records were created
and the MOBI file was successfully generated.
| | 01:49 |
So, we can say OK to this.
And the Kindle Previewer is now opening
| | 01:53 |
that MOBI file.
And this is how it would look at our
| | 01:56 |
Ebook inside of, let me check, the
Kindle, all right?
| | 02:01 |
So, in black and white, of course.
If we go to the next pages, we see that
| | 02:05 |
we have our table of contents that we've
created with cross references.
| | 02:11 |
And I can simply click on that link and I
go to the correct chapter.
| | 02:15 |
And as we go through the book, I can
also, maybe, make the font size smaller
| | 02:19 |
to have more text inside of a page.
Let's move on, oh, here's my image.
| | 02:25 |
Okay, perfect.
And in this case, of course, the caption
| | 02:28 |
has moved to the following page.
But let's just move on and see maybe,
| | 02:33 |
also from here, from the table of
contents here inside of the previewer
| | 02:37 |
that I have, in fact, the ability to
navigate to various chapters that were
| | 02:42 |
created automatically.
This is the automatic table of contents
| | 02:48 |
that was created with the table of
contents style that we have created
| | 02:52 |
inside of InDesign.
Okay?
| | 02:55 |
This is why it was so important.
So, I can go back to the table of
| | 02:58 |
contents, all right, like this.
Move to another chapter, for example,
| | 03:03 |
chapter 3, let's go check out how our
table is doing here.
| | 03:09 |
Oh, here we go, it's pretty legible, even
on the Kindle.
| | 03:13 |
Let's move to another device, for
example, the Kindle DX, which has a
| | 03:16 |
larger screen.
So, this is how it would show on the
| | 03:20 |
Kindle DX.
And of course, we're going to also check it
| | 03:24 |
for the iPhone, Kindle for the iPhone.
All right.
| | 03:29 |
So, we would go back to a view in color,
and by moving on we can see that the text
| | 03:34 |
is the correct size.
Here, we have the images that actually
| | 03:39 |
resize to the size of the monitor.
All right, this is a much smaller resolution.
| | 03:46 |
And the last device we can check is
actually the Kindle for the iPad.
| | 03:50 |
So, here we go.
Much, much bigger screen.
| | 03:54 |
All right, and here we also have the images
that resizes to that specific screen.
| | 04:00 |
You can also choose to actually rotate
the screen to see how it would look if
| | 04:05 |
the screen was rotated inside of the
Kindle.
| | 04:09 |
All right, much longer lines.
Here is the table that we've created.
| | 04:13 |
And let's move back to a vertical view
and move back to Kindle for the iPhone.
| | 04:18 |
Because this is really what I wanted to
show you in the course of this seminar.
| | 04:23 |
Is how a design like this and, again, you
have no control over it, actually goes
| | 04:28 |
from a large screen view to a small
screen view.
| | 04:33 |
And this is exactly the benefit of the
ePub publishing format.
| | 04:38 |
The benefit is that you need to design it
only once.
| | 04:42 |
And then, you are able to publish it to
multiple devices.
| | 04:46 |
There are many many Ebook readers out
there.
| | 04:48 |
And you can send your ePub to anyone via
e-mail.
| | 04:52 |
You can publish your ePub to Amazon, to
the iBookstore, wherever you want to
| | 04:57 |
monetize your work.
But here we are.
| | 05:01 |
This long trip that took us from placing
text to an InDesign file, formatting it
| | 05:05 |
correctly with character and paragraph
styles.
| | 05:09 |
And then, going through the export
process and tweaking the CSS and the
| | 05:15 |
XHTML file to have a publishing ready
ePub created with Adobe InDesign.
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