From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
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Subcategory: CSS - InDesign Tutorial
From the course: EPUB Accessibility Using InDesign
Subcategory: CSS
- [Instructor] So let's have a CSS sidebar since we've talked about mapping all that carefully-planned style sheets to semantic HTML. The CSS that InDesign exports, is of limited usefulness. It isn't constructed with the cascading part of the name in mind at all. So CSS stands for: Cascading Style Sheets, and that means that the style sheets are supposed to build on one another and they're supposed to cascade. InDesign fundamentally misunderstands that. It exports all values for any given paragraph style or character style or object style. So sometimes it is 5,000 lines long when it could easily be 500 and do the same thing. InDesign's CSS bloat is a well-recognized snag in the EPUB export process. So let's go back to that raw EPUB that we made from the Peter Pan file and look at the CSS. So this is the CSS opened; it's hidden in its own CSS folder. At the very top, are all the embedded fonts being called. So this section here is all the fonts that got embedded in the EPUB, mapped to…
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