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068 Fixing the overflowing text frame problem in EPUBs

068 Fixing the overflowing text frame problem in EPUBs - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

068 Fixing the overflowing text frame problem in EPUBs

Adobe giveth and Adobe taketh away. Sometimes Adobe giveth too much, and such is the case with some EPUB features in InDesign CS6. Now this is just an issue that affects CS6 users. Let me show you the issue and then show you the fix. So the document that I will be using is a very short ten page book, so you can see the cover, title page, and some text. The bad boy here is this guy. Let's zoom in. It's a pull quote. It's an anchor text frame. Looks to be nice. Now what is wonderful, what Adobe have giveth us in CS6 is the new ability to retain a lot of the formatting of anchor text frames. Before when we export this to EPUB, InDesign would just make this into another paragraph and it would put tags around it so that you can edit the CSS file to make a purple background and you know, a certain width and height, and so on, but you don't always have to redo the work. And now in CS6, when you export a file to EPUB, InDesign retains a lot of the attributes of these anchored text frames…

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