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Naming Conventions for ePUB Files

Matthew January 15, 2012 EPUB, HTML, iBooks, InDesign, RegEx, Tools, Uncategorized 6 Comments

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…Continue Reading →

New Kindle Fire 8 Guidelines, KindleGen, KindlePreviewer, ID Plugin

Matthew January 12, 2012 CSS, EPUB, ePUB3, HTML, InDesign, Kindle, Tools, Uncategorized 10 Comments

After more than a month of waiting, Amazon has finally announced the release of its guidelines for their new format, Kindle Fire 8 (KF8) today. While Amazon’s Kindle Fire 8 format is not ePUB of any kind, Amazon does take…Continue Reading →

InDesign CS5.5 to ePUB Workflow; Drop Caps That Look Great in ePUB

Matthew January 6, 2012 Beginner's Corner, CSS, EPUB, ePUB2, Fonts, InDesign, Tools, Uncategorized 2 Comments

There are a couple links to new posts this week I want to share with everyone. Both should help you create better ePUBs. InDesign CS5.5 to ePUB Workflow One is from Colleen Cunningham (@BookDesignGirl) at Adams Media. She shares an image of…Continue Reading →

Removing Forced Line Breaks & Nonbreaking Hyphenation in InDesign to ePUB

Matthew January 2, 2012 Beginner's Corner, EPUB, ePUB2, ePUB3, InDesign, RegEx, Tools, Uncategorized 11 Comments

InDesign Find/Change Dialog Box for Removing Forced Returns from Text Tab

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…Continue Reading →

GREP Cleanup of InDesign to ePUB Files from Ron Bilodeau

Matthew December 21, 2011 CSS, EPUB, ePUB2, InDesign, RegEx, Tools, Uncategorized 6 Comments

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…Continue Reading →

From InDesign CS5.5 to ePUB & Kindle by Elizabeth Castro: A Review

Matthew December 17, 2011 Audio/Video, CSS, EPUB, ePUB2, Fonts, iBooks, InDesign, Kindle, Tools, Uncategorized 9 Comments

This week, Elizabeth Castro released a new ePUB miniguide, From InDesign CS5.5 to ePUB and Kindle. This is the fourth miniguide that Castro has done that builds on her first ePUB instructional manual, ePUB: Straight to the Point. From InDesign…Continue Reading →

ePUB: The Language of eBooks —A Primer

Matthew December 15, 2011 Beginner's Corner, CSS, EPUB, ePUB2, ePUB3, iBooks, Nook, SECRETS, Uncategorized 5 Comments

This is a guest post from Iris Febres, a graduate student in electronic publishing at Emerson College. It is based on a PowerPoint presentation she did in her class that was also a Tweetsentation during #ePrdctn Hour. So . ….Continue Reading →

Adobe Edge Preview: Bringing Animation to an ePUB3 Near You?

Matthew December 9, 2011 EPUB, ePUB3, HTML, iBooks, InDesign, Tools, Uncategorized 6 Comments

If you use InDesign or any of the Adobe Creative Suite, you should know about the InDesign User Groups and Adobe User Groups. Both are communities of like minded people connected by use of the same software and a desire…Continue Reading →

Font Embedding and Font Obfuscation/Mangling

Matthew December 5, 2011 EPUB, ePUB2, ePUB3, Fonts, iBooks, InDesign, Nook, Uncategorized 16 Comments

The Sigil font obfuscation menu

There has as been a lot a talk at #ePrdctn Hour recently about font embedding and font obfuscation/mangling. I wanted to provide some resources in case anyone is struggling with the same issues. Embedding Fonts Liza Daley has a great…Continue Reading →

Nesting Your TOC in the NCX File and the NOOK/Kindle Workaround

Matthew December 3, 2011 CSS, EPUB, ePUB2, Examples, iBooks, Kindle, Kobo, RegEx, Tools, Uncategorized 12 Comments

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…Continue Reading →

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