I’ve seen quite a few people on twitter asking approximately the same question: Has anyone encountered problems with video not working when testing .mobi files in the Kindle apps? #eprdctn — Charlie Stephenson (@crjs20) May 12, 2014 The best answer…Continue Reading →
Full Disclosure: I work on Creatavist, a for-profit product run by the makers of The Atavist. Initally I was hesitant to write this post but others in the community have found the docs a helpful resource and have encouraged me…Continue Reading →
Editor’s Note: This is the first part of a series explaining how to generate an EPUB from InDesign. It’s meant for beginner InDesign/EPUB users, but other levels might learn something new as well. There comes a time in every print designer’s…Continue Reading →
One of the most common questions I get asked when people start making ebooks is “Do I really need to create two separate files? One for Kindle and another for everyone else?” And then they usually ask if it takes…Continue Reading →
There’s little more frustrating then hearing through a client that a reader is complaining about how a file looks on some device. And more often than not its some obscure Kobo or Android device. There are probably 25 e-readers on…Continue Reading →
Derrick SchultzApril 7, 2014Kindle, SECRETS, ToolsComments Off on Minor Update to Kindle Previewer
It looks like Amazon has made a minor update to the Kindle Previewer, bumping its version from 2.92 to 2.921. Update is available by auto-updating the app or downloading it here. Seen anything different in the new version? Let us…Continue Reading →
It seems hard to believe, but sometimes I still come across ereader bugs that just make me really scratch my head. Here’s just one of them. Applying a width of 100% to the <body> element is a very common CSS…Continue Reading →
Derrick SchultzMarch 31, 2014InDesign, SECRETSComments Off on InDesign forums now have a dedicated ePub forum
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 →
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 →