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036 Setting story order with the Articles panel

036 Setting story order with the Articles panel - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

036 Setting story order with the Articles panel

Let's make an EPUB. I have a two page InDesign document here, a work of art, with some just kind of placeholder, images, and text, let's zoom in here a bit. Let's just say that we want to export this document out to EPUB. We want to make a little nice eBook that we can put on an iPad or distribute it on our web site. This story continues on page 2, there it is, continued from page 1. Then we have Another Story all about California and the Golden Gate Bridge and this is a starred story. People always show how to create EPUBs with really long text heavy books, so you can make EPUBs out of anything. The problem is the order that these stories are exported in. How does InDesign figure out which story to put first and then next, the pictures and the text? The problem with busy documents like this, with many objects in different alignments, is that by default, InDesign exports stories to EPUB and to HTML for that matter, in order of left to right and top to bottom actually, page by page…

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