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163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook

163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

163 Make a pop-up footnote for your ebook

- When you're working with a publication that has footnotes, those footnotes can be easily transferred to an ebook, when you export this document to the epub format. There's a cool new feature in InDesign CC that lets you export footnotes to become a popup, as opposed to a traditional footnote. Let me show you how that's done. First of all, let's take a look at our regular footnote here in this very simple text-only document. I'm going to zoom in a bit. You can see we have a tiny little footnote reference right up here, that leads to the footnote text at the bottom of the text frame, as is usual. This is according to the history of Flemish art, up there. Now we're going to export this to epub. So I go to the file menu and choose export. We're going to choose reflowable epub here, save it on the desktop. The area where you choose the kind of footnote that you want is a little different in the latest version of InDesign CC 2014. It's right here in the text panel. They've divied this up…

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