Great news for ePub creators who use InDesign to create their ePub files. At Anne-Marie’s and other Adobe InDesign forum member’s request, forum admin Bob Levine has just set up an InDesign subforum dedicated to ePub discussions! Visit the InDesign –…Continue Reading →
99 ePub rendering problems on the wall take one down, pass it around 98 ePub rendering problems on the wall Easily the most frustrating part of designing and developing ePub projects, the various rendering issues on each and every device…Continue Reading →
Douglas Waterfall, senior InDesign engineer/architect/epub nerd, has a Twitter account that he barely uses. He’s tweeted only twelve times, at the time of this writing. So when he tweets, it means he’s motivated. Last week, he tweeted this: Interested in…Continue Reading →
Typekit, the popular web font provider, has recently been moving to allow embedding of some of their fonts in InDesign and InDesign-generated projects like ePubs and DPS apps. But what about iBooks Author? After some back and forth between Tina…Continue Reading →
Link shorteners have become popular over the past couple of years. Mainly due to twitter’s need for brevity (Twitter now maintains their own service now, the sometimes annoying t.co), link shorteners have also become popular for brands to track activity…Continue Reading →
The size of an ePub file is important. Some retailers— like Kindle’s Direct Publishing program—have very small maximum file sizes or charge you download fees. Each image you add can be—quite literally—costly. But it’s not just that: the size of…Continue Reading →
I know. I know. Why would you want to print a digital file? And yet its one of the first questions you might hear. And it makes sense: editors, proofreaders, and copy editors can all benefit from a print edition…Continue Reading →
[This tip is written by guest contributor Derrick Schultz. More about Derrick at the end. —AMC] Common typographic details that are easily solved in InDesign can be a big hassle in eBook production. One such detail is the handling of…Continue Reading →
Jason Boog at GalleyCat has collected links to the publishing and marketing guidelines for most of the major self-publishing outlets in his post “Free eBook Formatting & Marketing Guides for Writers.” The post includes links to Smashwords, Amazon Kindle, Barnes &…Continue Reading →
Ben Milander has released a new Javascript called Create Index for ePub that will help you create a clickable index for EPUB files. Given the difficulty of creating a linked index when exporting from InDesign, this script may be valuable…Continue Reading →