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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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161 Keeping page numbers on top of master items3m 55s
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162 Adding automatic currency symbols in a table cell or before text3m 50s
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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook3m 48s
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164 Deleting tabs at the beginning of paragraphs and applying a paragraph style3m 10s
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165 Five InDesign Presentation tips6m 28s
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089 Three great Object Styles for any designer8m 1s
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090 Choosing alpha channel image transparency2m 25s
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091 Adding and reading metadata for InDesign files3m 25s
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092 Adding ALT tags to your images6m 59s
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093 How to Place & Link a text frame's text but not its formatting7m 4s
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094 Setting the baseline position of a caption2m 39s
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051 Five things that should be in every new file5m 19s
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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects6m 21s
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053 Understanding component information6m 39s
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054 Creating running heads using section markers4m 16s
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055 Making a font with InDesign using the IndyFont script5m 20s
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056 Finding where that color is used7m 17s
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037 Updating a linked table without losing formatting5m 18s
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038 Creating electronic sticky notes4m 49s
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039 Moving master page items to the top layer for visibility2m 48s
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040 Five guide tricks that will impress your coworkers6m 18s
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041 Letting InDesign add the diacritics4m 21s
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042 Using single-cell table cells for custom paragraph formatting6m 2s
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