I am writing today as an advocate for greater attention to accessibility in the production of ebooks. I am aware that the level of attention and care that ebooks generally get can be described as, well, passing. Inside of many…Continue Reading →
Page List — an ebooks’s cross-reference to the print edition’s pagination — is an EPUB3 standard, but it’s a bear to implement coming from an InDesign workflow. Laura Brady (@LauraB7) of Brady Type introduces a time-saving pair of scripts from…Continue Reading →
InDesign’s Object Styles contain multitudes of possibilities to streamline EPUB export. At the InDesign Conference in Denver last week, I saw a demo that used Object Styles to automatically style unformatted text. Follow these steps: In Object Style Options, choose the Paragraph…Continue Reading →
Remember the Trojan Horse? The Greek army hides in a huge horse, and the horse is presented to the citizens of Troy as a gift. They bring the horse inside the city gates, the soldiers spill out, and the rest is…Continue Reading →