Making better ebooks from InDesign is a consistent theme here at EPUB Secrets. This is a guest post from Felipe Santos, a noted Adobe educator from Brazil, with many excellent tips and tricks for you to bring to your workflow….Continue Reading →
This is a guest post from Franco A. Alvarado is a freelance ebook developer and a project manager at a Boston-based academic publisher. Maybe you’ve seen this script before: import re i = 0 def replace(m): global i i +=…Continue Reading →
Have you poured a long, complex Word file with hyperlinked endnotes into InDesign only to find their interactivity disappeared? Or maybe you managed to salvage the link to the endnotes but now you are wondering why there is no backlink…Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
We are officially launching the ePUBSecrets blog today, a new blog to help you with all things ePUB. This blog was the brainchild of David Blatner and Anne-Marie Concepcion, the fine folks behind InDesignSecrets. As speakers and trainers of designers, production…Continue Reading →