Join Rufus Deuchler for an in-depth discussion in this video CSS tags in the EPUB, part of Creating Ebooks with InDesign CS5.
So before you go and edit the CSS file, it is important to know what can be done, …and where. So let's investigate each tag that in …Design automatically generated for us. And we're going to investigate them in …order, to exactly understand what values can be changed, inside of these CSS properties. …Let's look at this first one. The Font family, this specifies the Font …Family for text. And there are actually 2 types of Font …Family names. There's a family name, which could be …something like Minion Pro, Garamond, or Myriad.…
Basically declaring a font for your text. And this is useful when you know that a …specific font is available on the device that you are targeting. …Or if you have embedded your font inside of the ePub. …This is a really strange situation here, because it's really, really hard to …understand which fonts are available. So what I prefer to do is to use the …generic family names. And generic family names can be things …like Serif, San Serif, Cursive, Fantasy, or Monospace.…
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1/13/2011- Creating a new InDesign document with EPUB in mind
- Working with text
- Creating hyperlinks and cross-references
- Working with graphics
- Defining the reading order of the EPUB
- Other essential parts of an ebook
- Exporting to EPUB
- Customizing an EPUB
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 59s
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1. Getting Started
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What is an EPUB?5m 32s
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2. Working with Text
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Understanding style mapping9m 39s
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Adding paragraph styles10m 57s
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Working with notes3m 40s
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Working with tables10m 47s
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Defining vertical space3m 14s
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3. Creating Hyperlinks and Cross-References
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Adding hyperlinks5m 55s
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Adding cross-references7m 16s
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4. Working with Graphics
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Adding graphics7m 3s
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5. Defining the Reading Order of the EPUB
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6. Other Essential Parts of an Ebook
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Adding metadata3m 37s
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7. Exporting to EPUB
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Exporting to EPUB2m 33s
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General export options3m 31s
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Image export options7m 44s
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Content export options7m 14s
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8. Customizing an EPUB
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CSS tags in the EPUB12m 1s
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Working with the XHTML code9m 15s
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Previewing the ebook5m 25s
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