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179 File naming for healthy EPUBs

179 File naming for healthy EPUBs - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

179 File naming for healthy EPUBs

- When you export a publication to reflowable EPUB, the file names of any linked images and other files make a difference. If you open up the Links panel, you'll see the file names of all the links you've placed in here. And what's going to give the EPUB problems are any file names that use spaces or punctuation marks, that kind of thing. Very easy to get by with if you're used to doing a printer PDF workflow, but because these files are going to be converted into HTML and CSS, they have very strict rules about what kind of characters can be used in file names. And where this is going to catch you up is when you try to validate the EPUB. Let's just see what happens, we're going to export this to EPUB and validate it I'm gonna go up to the File menu, and choose Export. Make sure that you're choosing Reflowable EPUB. History-of-art.epub, save it on the desktop. It really does not make that much of a difference for our purposes about the choices that you make in this dialog box. I am…

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