At PePcon 2012, Anne-Marie Concepcion (@amarie) led a session on “Top Scripts and Resources for EPUB.” In #ePrdctn Hour on Twitter June 13 (it happens every Wednesday at 11:00 a.m. EST) one of them, Kris Coppieters’s script for converting InDesign page...
There have been a number of great posts with ePUB creation tips lately. Here are four that offer help for creating better ePUBs.
Centering Text
You would think centering text in an ePUB would be a simple matter, but the truth is that different readers handle centering...
On Wednesday, March 7, 2012, Jan Wright (@WIndexing) was a guest during #ePrdctn Hour on Twitter. Wright is the owner of Wright Information Indexing Services and has been indexing and taxonomizing since 1991. She is currently co-chairing the ASI’s Digital...
O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing 2012 continues through Wednesday, February 15. O’Reilly will continue to offer a live streaming video feed and also have recorded videos available for viewing. O’Reilly has also made presenters’ slide decks...
The cover of Liz Castro's Using InDesign to adapt plain text for ePUB
Liz Castro, the author of ePUB: Straight to the Point, has just released an new miniguide available in ePUB or Mobi titled Using InDesign to adapt plain text to ePUB. Castro describes the...
Two recent recent posts have highlighted the need to pay attention to how you name your files in an ePUB. The first is Cari Jansen’s “Tomaxxi’s Script: Renaming images from within InDesign” in which she shows how she used a script from Marijan...
When converting the InDesign file of a book created for print, you need to be aware of the choices the print designer made, including how and where they have used forced line breaks and forced hyphenation. If these tools were used by the print designer, you will...
At the 2011 Print & ePublishing Conference (PePcon), Ron Bilodeau shared some great GREP for cleaning up ePUBs that were created using InDesign. You can download a text file of this GREP, a PDF of Ron’s presentation, and an updated PDF for InDesign CS5.5...
One of the great things about ePUB is that you can create navigational tables of content (TOCs) that have nested content. Essentially your can create drop-down menus in the navigational TOC that will show the subdivisions of your ePUB. Chapters can be nested inside...
When you make changes to the TOC.NCX file in an ePUB—moving front matter to the back of the ePUB; adding additional content—one of the frustrations is that the playOrder in the TOC.NCX file has to be renumbered. If your book has a short TOC.NCX this might...
