{"id":2903,"date":"2011-10-12T20:29:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T00:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elwinlee.com\/blog\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2014-11-06T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T22:40:56","slug":"working-with-indesign-to-export-epub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/working-with-indesign-to-export-epub\/","title":{"rendered":"[How-to-Fix] Working with InDesign to export ePub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/snYYu.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" \/><br \/>\nI started working on an eBook with InDesign a few weeks back. InDesign has an option to export your document to an ePub file which can be used for eBook readers. If you don&#8217;t have a reader to test it on, you can download the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/digitaleditions\/\">Adobe Digital Editions<\/a> on your computer for free! Or even better&#8230; Use <a href=\"http:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/\">Calibre<\/a> to manage your ebooks or test your epubs on virtual devices!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, exporting to ePub is quite easy, but you need to pay attention to how you format your documents. For example, page layouts are different, page breaks and returns aren&#8217;t included, fonts paragraph\/character styles, etc. I found a very nice guide from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\">CreativePro<\/a>, which explains these problems and gives you solutions on how to fix it \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\n<strong>Indesign ePub Guide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/article\/making-ebooks-indesign-part-1\">Part 1<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/article\/making-ebooks-indesign-part-2\">Part 2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The most annoying thing however, is that InDesign (CS5.5) doesn&#8217;t export your table styles. The guide suggests manually editing the CSS file after exporting, which is a pain in the ass. To do this, export your document to ePub. Rename your file from .epub to .zip. Open the file and locate the CSS file.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a drag&#8230; but it&#8217;s the only solution that I could find on the web until Adobe fixes this in the new CS version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working with InDesign to export ePub<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[429,1079],"tags":[1770,1771,431,1772,434,1773,839,1774,863,1775,1025,1776,1035,1777,1202,1778,1324,1779,1529,1780,1542,1781,1717,1782,1735,1783,1768,1784,1769],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-how-to-fix-stuff","tag-digital-editions","tag-epub","tag-layout","tag-ebook","tag-adobe","tag-document","tag-export","tag-ereader","tag-book","tag-reader","tag-table","tag-tablet","tag-css","tag-format","tag-guide","tag-style","tag-page","tag-paragraph","tag-indesign","tag-character","tag-font","tag-zip","tag-master","tag-cs","tag-id","tag-cs5-5","tag-digital","tag-creativepro","tag-editions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/id-epub.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mtRf-KP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elwinlee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}