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Prerequisites
A working knowledge of InDesign. I will not be describing how to make a style sheet
InDesign CS3
TextWranger (or another text editor which saves as UTF-8 and supports regular expressions)
Dreamweaver CS3
Photoshop (or another image editor)
InDesign:
Tip: Every style change must have a style sheet applied to it
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any nested styles you must apply the character style to compensate
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Device: ADE, iPad 2. Search for any Dinkus's and apply Paragraph Style "Dinkus" to it
3. Make sure all images which will float are made in-line and have a paragraph style "image" applied
4. Make sure all Bullets, Lists Quotes etc have the following Style Sheet naming convention applied eg. QuoteFirst,
QuoteMiddle, QuoteLast. With the appropriate spacing applied and also a QuoteSingleLine, with space applied to both top
and bottom. This applies to bullet lists as well Tip: InDesign WILL strip out empty carriage returns.
5. Delete all page numbers from Content page.
6. Delete all running heads and Footers. including folios.
7. Splits Document into separate Documents and create a book and insert files into it, ePub will apply a page break for each
Document, so each time you want a new page then create a new document)
8. Check file in the Book for stray elements like Blanks at the start of Files etc.
9. Create a blank Cover file and name it "Front Cover" insert into the book at the start and place an image in if you don't
already have the front cover pic any image will do, and resize to 600x860pixels and call it "Cover.jpg" (also do the Kindle
version while you there resizing to 600x800pixels and label it "Cover_kindle.jpg") Tip: Double check the cover in
Photoshop to make sure it's set to RGB
10. Strip out any Index file and backmatter adds
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11. Export book to Digital Editions. (I like to use these setting below)
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File clean up
I like to replace the "Cover-fmt.jpeg" in the Images folder with the "Cover.jpg" I made earlier, also adding in the
"Cover_kindle.jpg" to the images folder.
TextWrangler
Open the Content.opf file.
This is what they will typically look like after the conversion.
You will notice that although there are only two images in the epub.
The Content.opf file duplicates these image for every xhtml file in the manifest section. You have to remove these except for
one set. I like to keep the top set under the Cover.xhtml file
Tip: this problem is fixed in InDesign CS5
Once you've done that you need to:
start at the top you will need to add the following lines (because I don't like the way ID puts in certain things).
<dc:identifier id="isbn_9781234567890">978-1-2345-6789-0</dc:identifier>
<dc:title>Book Title</dc:title>
<dc:creator>Author Name</dc:creator>
<dc:publisher>Publisher</dc:publisher>
<dc:rights>Copyright © Author Name 2011</dc:rights>
<dc:format />
<dc:date>2011</dc:date>
<dc:description>Blurb for the Book</dc:description>
<dc:subject>Humanities; sciences; social sciences; scientific rationalism</dc
<dc:language>en</dc:language>
<meta name="cover" content="my-cover-image"/>
The date, language, and Cover entries MUST be there, the rest is optional
Next in the <manifest> section
PHP Code:
<item id="my-cover-image" href="images/Cover_kindle.jpg" media-type="image/jpeg"
<itemref idref="cover" linear="no"/>
<guide>
<reference type="cover" title="my-cover-image" href="images/Cover_kindle.jpg"/>
<reference type="toc" title="Table of Contents" href="Contents.xhtml"/>
</guide>
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The TOC.NCX file you can leave, unless you change order of the files, but if you had them set correctly to begin with then this
will be ok.
Dreamweaver
samp {
font-family: sans-serif;
}
.centerImage1 {
margin-top: 0%;
text-indent: 0%;
text-align: center;
margin-bottom:0%;
}
.image {
margin-top: 1em;
margin-bottom: 1em;
margin-left: 1.2em;
text-align: center;
}
img {
max-width: 100%
}
p.float {
line-height: 1.20em;
font-size: 1.00em;
float: left;
clear: left;
text-align: left;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
margin: 0 0.5em 0.5em 0;
color: rgb(0,0,0);
}
3. In the code where it list the "p" styles (p.stylename). Add at the end of the font family line , serif; (or "sans-serif")
depended on the paragraph style required, like this:
PHP Code:
p.x-body-no-indent {
font-family: "Minion Pro", serif;
line-height: 1.30em;
font-size: 0.96em;
margin-bottom: 0.00em;
margin-top: 0.00em;
text-indent: 0.00em;
margin-right: 0.00em;
margin-left: 0.00em;
text-align: justify;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
color: rgb(0,0,0);
}
PHP Code:
span.italic {
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
}
span.bold {
font-weight: normal;
font-style: bold;
}
Tip: the span.bold and span.italic entries could be blank, so you will need to add the required information above
PHP Code:
span.hyperlink {
color: rgb(0,0,255);
text-decoration: underline;
}
span.strong {
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
}
span.dropcap {
float: left;
font-size: 2.6em;
line-height: 0.9em;
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}
Now you are ready to start opening your xhtml files in Dreamweaver.
I open the Cover, Title page and any other file with a full page image.
I then move onto the Chapter files and go though each one, to make sure nothing strange has happened and everything is
where it should be.
Next, I open the contents file, and set up my TOC linking (I didn't bother with it in InDesign because the process is a real hit
and miss PITA. It's much easier and faster IMO to do it from here.)
All you do is select, say, Chapter One. In the "link" pallet at the bottom, click on the Folder icon and choose Chapter_01.xhtml.
And that's it...Rinse and repeat for the remaining chapter entries in your Contents file.
To link you chapters BACK to the Contents.xhtml file, then you need to open each chapter and select the text you want the
hyperlink to be on, in this case it's Chapter One. Click on the folder icon next to the "link" window at the bottom. and select the
content.xhtml.
Once you are happy with what you have, then you need to compress the epub folder back up.
I do this by dragging the folder onto an Applescript which you can find here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...light=epub+zip
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It is NOT to start a debate on the the quality of the CSS code as it is what InDesign generates and for that reason
I've left it as is...
I hope people will find this useful. If I have made some glaring mistakes, please feel free to let me know and I'll fix up my
post.
02-28-2011, 02:56 AM #2
That's a damned expensive way to create an ePub book! InDesign, Dreamweaver, Photoshop? How
HarryT much is that little lot going to cost someone?
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If theys have InDesign CS3 there's a good chance they will have the CS3 package which include
Adjust Photoshop and Dreamweaver, But as I mentioned this is how I do it.
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02-28-2011, 04:37 PM #4
And, if you're a publisher who is already using ID for the print version, it is desirable to be able to
st_albert create the epub (and other formats) from the same ID master files that contain all revisions, etc.
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02-28-2011, 09:25 PM #5
A bit more about adding the metadata to the InDesign file for export to ePub. If anyone was wondering
how it is entered - here's how. After creating the chapter files and adding them to a new book. Select
the file you created all your paragraph and character styles from the book window.
With that file open select FILE INFO from the FILE menu and add the title, author, copyright data etc. It
will export that data to the content.opf file in the ePub as metadata. As mentioned above you'll need to
edit the <dc:date /> because CS3 & 4 don't have a field to enter it and the ePub wont validate without
it.
Ensure your source file with the info and styles in it has been checked in the style source box in the
book window before exporting.
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Adjust Quote:
Addict Originally Posted by wannabee
A bit more about adding the metadata to the InDesign file for export to ePub. If anyone was
wondering how it is entered - here's how.
I left that out on purpose because, as I have to edit the date field in anyway, I just have a dummy text
file sitting on my desktop with all the generic copy and paste info ready to go...
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04-13-2011, 11:45 AM #7
Picture sections?
fiona86
Member Great post this was really helpful, thanks! Was wondering if you had any experience with exporting
picture sections? I'm working on some books with picture sections now and after I export the book to
digital editions the pictures get pushed to the front of the book and the some/all of the chapters are
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04-14-2011, 12:19 AM #8
Hi Fiona
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I think this attachment can explain it better than I can.
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Hi Mark, thanks for the attachment and for the welcome so glad I found this forum!
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@Adjust, Yeah my image section is in ID CS3, if you have any tips that would be great!
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You then need to, if you haven't already, apply a caption Paragraph style the caption text...
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That's it.
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Open the both the Contents.opf files of the newly created illo Section and the eBook .opf file the illo section is going into.
And just copy the Image information inside the manifest section, into the main OPF manifest
Dreamweaver
Open the illo section .CSS file, and insert the page break line to the caption style.
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Then open the illo .xhtml file. and cop and paste all the stuff inside the <body></body> tags, and past it where you
want it to go inside you book .xhtml files...
So after a bit of fine tuning the code you should end up with something looking like this:
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@adjust - Excuse me if I've missed the bleedin' obvious but why wouldn't you just keep the illustration
wannabee sections in the same document as the rest of the book so you don't have to cut and paste the manifest
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etc?
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Addict Originally Posted by wannabee
@adjust - Excuse me if I've missed the bleedin' obvious but why wouldn't you just keep the
illustration sections in the same document as the rest of the book so you don't have to cut and
paste the manifest etc?
Illustration sections are printing separately to the text. Usually on a 4-Colour press and on different
paper stock. They are done in either 4, 8, 16, 32 page section. This means it can be bound up
anywhere they want to put it in the book.
It also gets printed at different times, hence the need for a separate, ID Document.
Why I didn't include it into the ID "Book" as a separate file and call it Pic section?
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OK, I get that. However, I would have opened the colour picture file, which you have shown us above,
wannabee and copied it all and then opened the chapter you need to insert them into and paste them into the
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correct location of that chapter? The last page text box will overflow. You know how many pages you
just pasted so add that many pages to the chapter and Bobs your uncle.
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No you are correct. In my case I never get both text and illo files at the same time, so I have to do
Adjust both separately.
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You would still have to Group the images to the captions and then copy and paste them into the main
text thread to ensure they are in the correct position after epub conversion.
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