The beauty here is that once its set up in your document, your captions will automatically update if the image changes or if the images metadata changes. Pictures and captions problems in epub export adobe support. We can even use our captions object style in conjunction with the automatic caption features in indesign. Creating fixedlayout ebooks, epublishing with indesign. Mar 14, 2019 nigel french is a graphic designer, author, artist, and trainer with more than 20 years of related experience. Currently, the only way to add page breaks to an epub from within indesign is to divide the book into individual chapters, either by creating individual documents within a book, or by using the new use first level entries as chapter breaks in th. My focus is on clients satisfaction, it is a real source of contentment for me. Go to file export, name your ebook, and choose epub from the format menu. I would prefer it not to be there but its a long line so the fix is probably going to cause more problems than it solves. Using numbered lists for captions in indesign using numbered lists for captions in indesign.
Indesign cs5 offers two ways to create chapter breaks in an epub file. If youre creating a standard reflowable epub book more about that below, you will also need to ensure the facing pages box is not checked. I really hope that fbreader will support epub, this way iliad users will be able to use epub files too for the sony prs500, the support will be. First, you can try to know if the problem is with file or with indesign. You can group the picture box and caption box and anchor it in text flow.
This can be helpful when trying to convert image effects from indesign to epub as it will retain any special effects e. Using the instructions in this book, youll be able to create ebooks for almost all ereaders, including the kindle for amazon and epubcompatible. The problem comes from one of the styles i set up for blockquotes in the text. Pictures and captions problems in epub export adobe. My client wants images, captions, and image credits to lock together and never break across pages. Aug 25, 2017 first, you can try to know if the problem is with file or with indesign. The lack of css support and embedded fonts though mean that you wont get the full experience. I prefer to keep the caption text live when exporting to epub. So as with the reflowable epub format i duplicated my original indesign print file, stripped out everything mobi couldnt handle, saved it as an epub, and converted it to the mobi format. Then apply the styles and group the figures and captions in. Once you get all the styles for the figures and captions set up in your source document, open the book panel and synchronize the documents in the book.
Home forums epub and ebook image with caption in epub tagged. The options for automation discussed below depend on image files having the desired metadata established as part of its file info. One of the new features introduced in indesign cs5 is live captions. But you can anchor the image in the text story in indesign, then set the text wrap to wrap around object, and in cs5. Try export a new document to epub, if crash the indesign, the problem probably is it indd. Setting imagehandling to 3 will make epubcrawler do both framebyframe and whole page backgrounds i. When i convert to epub reflowable, my document exports successfully but formatting is lost. Right ctrlclick on your image and select captions generate live caption.
Most epubs require at least some reworking to get a good result, and at best youll create a totall. How to use indesigns anchored objects to create quality ebooks. How to convert an epub file to pdf using indesign quora. Using the instructions in this book, youll be able to create ebooks for almost all ereaders. It also offers you a number of different methods you can use to generate captions, controlling the look, location and style of the caption. If you move the text frame away from the image, the words. Indesign cc does have the feature of saving versions of the toc, so you can have alternatives to choose from when you export to epub. To determine the text type, indesign uses the epub. How to design a book and an ebook how to selfpublish. Avoid, at all costs editing the xhtml files inside the epub package, otherwise you make it difficult to roundtrip to indesign. Bullets and numbering options in indesign arent just for boring lists. On a very few reading systems notably the nook, this can cause problems on some images due im guessing to rounding errors, so you may have to set the margins just a. Ebooks come in a number of flavors, but for the purposes of this discussion im going to stick with the most common and most malleable format of ebook, the epub file that is the basis of all of the major retailers ebook offerings. In this episode of the digital publishing with adobe indesign cc series, we are going to learn about how to prepare your indesign content for exporting epubs.
Since the epub file format does not define page structure, all the content flows together in one continuous stream unless an epub file is composed of multiple xhtml filesone for each chapter or logical segment. Let me explain further by showing some simple sample pages. In this video, the first example is a contact sheet where indesign automatically creates captions based on the image file names. For your orders, please first inbox me to discuss your requirements, thank you. This can make it easier to fix the threading problem after export later on. I have a multichapter book with about 50 graphics that im trying to export to epub.
If the problem is with file, save it as idml and open it again. Instructor we saw how you can export a word document to pdf format and fancy it up a bit with linked toc and bookmarks but if you really want to do a beautiful job of laying out a book thats going to be exported to pdf, then you need to use a professional layout program like adobe indesign or quarkxpress or even the free apple pages will give you a lot more control over what you can do. In the epub, you will notice that the caption appears before the image. I have a lot of pictures that i would like to have captions for in the indesign document. For photo and caption layout situations, a good approach is. Indesign keep options and epub adobe support community.
Nov 24, 2015 she is a speaker, writer, and trainer, focusing on adobe indesign and illustrator, apple keynote and ibooks author, and other print and productionrelated topics. Mar 24, 2017 when you create a reflowable epub from indesign, the relationship between the indesign page and what you see in the epub im using apples ibooks here is non existent. Ive created this website to show everyone that indesign is a program that you can and should learn, and the best program for layout and desktop publishing. Indesign provides support for the epub 2 section in the opf file. Keep captions on same page as image reflowable epub. When i use indy to save as an epub the epub file shows everything just as it should be so theres actually no problem there. If you want a caption under the image, i suggest grouping the caption and the image, then anchoring the group in the flow.
Standards of typography have been low in the early years of epub, and designers have been cautioned not to expect creative control. Im leaving the post here in case someone else has the same issue. Pagetoscreen indesign cc for print and epub from the. I used indesign to convert an html document into an indesign book. If a text frame containing the variable is next to or grouped with the image, the variable displays the metadata of that image. If you use any version of indesign from creative cloud, you have no technical. When i convert to epub fixed, my indesign crashes halfway through the progress. Feb 03, 2017 in most cases, its not a matter of simply converting. Creating quick captions in indesign cs5 layers magazine. Yes, ive asked the indesign team for a tab order feature. Using an images metadata, indesign can create live captions. To produce an epub a few resources files are needed, namely the. In the export options window, you can set the epub version from the top of the general section.
If youre interested, check out my book on creating an epub with indesign. If a text frame containing the variable is next to or grouped with the. Hi there, i need to have a book in indesign converted into epub file. Converting your pdf files to epub readers has never been easier. Setting up live captions in indesign cs5 layers magazine. Theres a whole lot more going on under the hood than you might first think really quickly, lets go over the export process, with particular attention paid to the css and font options.
When setting the caption options object captions caption setup, youll need to be sure to set the offset value to 0 so it will use the offset value from our object style. Aug 23, 2016 no problems, really, except that i have to move the book from cc to cs6 and work there. Indesign provides a special caption variable that displays the specified metadata of an image. Jan 26, 2014 in this episode of the digital publishing with adobe indesign cc series, we are going to learn about how to prepare your indesign content for exporting epubs. In addition, youll need to enter the paragraph style again here in the caption setup dialog box. Update i tried exporting a group of pages at a time to try and find the issue. When you create a reflowable epub from indesign, the relationship between the indesign page and what you see in the epub im using apples ibooks here is non existent. Indesign s new epub tools opens the digital book market to a giant new group of authors, and improvements to oftenused features in indesign will ease the workflow of a large number of design. Photos with captions in reflow epub post by ctype 27 jul 2017, 19.
Accordingly, ive begun to use the epub export facility on indesign cc latest. We only do 45 books a year, so that overhead isnt really too high. You can now use indesign to create fixedlayout epub documents, allowing you to completely control the positioning of. But with more typefaces being designed for screen and with the capabilities of ereaders improving and indesign s epub related feature set expanding, thats changing. In another example, use indesign to add captions to images in a newsletter using the image metadata.
How to change in indesign the stacking order of grouped objects that are. But thats not all thats weird about indesigns export to epub function. Also, if i export back to a pdf from indesign, the text looks perfect and the page numbering is correct in digital editions. A caption is descriptive text that appears below an image. Indesign automatically detects the cover and the print table of contents option. You can autonumber items like captions, even incorporating prefixes like figure labels. You have probably used one or two of the methods with varying amounts of success. You can make oeb valid epub files, i guess thats why these epub files displayed just fine in fbreader. What are good ways to make an epub with page breaks from. On a very few reading systems notably the nook, this can cause problems on some images due im guessing to rounding errors, so you may have to set the margins just a hair smaller like 19% in the above example.
Burke is a companion to epublishing with indesign cs6 by pariah s. Producing epub documents from adobe indesign mobileread. It requires that you play around in the terminal a bit, which for some people is a pain, but gives you a series of incopy files that you can import into your indesign document. Pagetoscreen indesign cc for print and epub from the same file. Indesign provides several methods for creating captions that display the image metadata you specify. When you export an indesign file to epub, it will pretty much ignore. Watch this tutorial to learn how to fix style collisions in epub output. Indesigns new epub tools opens the digital book market to a giant new group of authors, and improvements to oftenused features in indesign will ease the workflow of a large number of design. There is some text in this 2page a5 book, as well as some charts and graphics. The pics have captions, and no matter what, it seems, indesign cant write an epub that keeps captions and pics together properly.
Creating captions, one of the most mundane tasks in page layout, can now be automated in indesign cs5. The forum epub and ebook is closed to new topics and replies. Adobe indesign provides several choices for creating captions automatically. She is a regular presence at creativepro weeks pepcon and indesign conferences, and has spoken at ebookcraft in canada and making design in norway. Fixed layout epub from indesign rorohiko workflow resources. Last month i talked about just what an ebook is a website in a box. No problems, really, except that i have to move the book from cc to cs6 and work there. How to design a book and an ebook how to selfpublish a. Designing, documents formatting, image video editing, content writing, ebook conversion proofreading and digital marketing management. Converting indesign to flowable and fixedlayout epubs created date. From manuscript to epub digitalpublishingtoolkithybrid.
Indesign also has excellent capabilities for epub design, with options that will help you create both fixedlayout and reflowable ebooks skip to. What it means for epub laura brady november 9, 2017 adobe, epub3, html, indesign, secrets 6 comments the latest version of indesign cc version. Doing so can cause problems when the same document is also converted to epub later on. Learn how to use indesign to create image captions automatically. When youre exporting a free flowable layout to epub, indesign will reformat the layout using css. Indesign will also suggest some default page sizes suitable for digital publishing formats, such as kindle, ipad and iphone.
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