Mar 12, 2012 learn how to use indesign to create image captions automatically. 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. Also, if i export back to a pdf from indesign, the text looks perfect and the page numbering is correct in digital editions. 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. How to change in indesign the stacking order of grouped objects that are. Indesign cs5 offers two ways to create chapter breaks in an epub file. For photo and caption layout situations, a good approach is. 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. Creating quick captions in indesign cs5 layers magazine. How to use indesigns anchored objects to create quality ebooks. In the epub, you will notice that the caption appears before the image. Converting a pdf to an epub using indesign adobe support.
Doing so can cause problems when the same document is also converted to epub later on. Try export a new document to epub, if crash the indesign, the problem probably is it indd. Indesign provides a special caption variable that displays the specified metadata of an image. Nigel french is a graphic designer, author, artist, and trainer with more than 20 years of related experience. No problems, really, except that i have to move the book from cc to cs6 and work there. 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. If a text frame containing the variable is next to or grouped with the. Burke is a companion to epublishing with indesign cs6 by pariah s. 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.
Adobe indesign provides several choices for creating captions automatically. If you use any version of indesign from creative cloud, you have no technical. Pagetoscreen indesign cc for print and epub from the. If you want a caption under the image, i suggest grouping the caption and the image, then anchoring the group in the flow. 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. Learn how to create clean, professionallooking captions in this indesign secrets tutorial from, making captions easy ignore text wrap, object style library item, live caption.
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. My client wants images, captions, and image credits to lock together and never break across pages. How to convert an epub file to pdf using indesign quora. 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 produce an epub a few resources files are needed, namely the. It also offers you a number of different methods you can use to generate captions, controlling the look, location and style of the caption. 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. When i convert to epub fixed, my indesign crashes halfway through the progress. Accordingly, ive begun to use the epub export facility on indesign cc latest. You have probably used one or two of the methods with varying amounts of success. Avoid, at all costs editing the xhtml files inside the epub package, otherwise you make it difficult to roundtrip to indesign. Creating captions, one of the most mundane tasks in page layout, can now be automated in indesign cs5.
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. 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. The problem comes from one of the styles i set up for blockquotes in the text. The lack of css support and embedded fonts though mean that you wont get the full experience. 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. My focus is on clients satisfaction, it is a real source of contentment for me. Bullets and numbering options in indesign arent just for boring lists. You can make oeb valid epub files, i guess thats why these epub files displayed just fine in fbreader. Its not like the old method of here i have my design for print, lets export it to pdf. The options for automation discussed below depend on image files having the desired metadata established as part of its file info. Hi there, i need to have a book in indesign converted into epub file. Once youve designed a caption that looks great, youll learn how to turn it into an object style to apply to all the captions you create and how to set up an indesign library. If the problem is with file, save it as idml and open it again. 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.
Indesign provides several methods for creating captions that display the image metadata you specify. The pics have captions, and no matter what, it seems, indesign cant write an epub that keeps captions and pics together properly. 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. Mar 14, 2019 nigel french is a graphic designer, author, artist, and trainer with more than 20 years of related experience. From manuscript to epub digitalpublishingtoolkithybrid. When i convert to epub reflowable, my document exports successfully but formatting is lost. Aug 25, 2017 first, you can try to know if the problem is with file or with indesign. Right ctrlclick on your image and select captions generate live caption. Indesign will automatically generate a live text frame the same width of the image, containing the description you added to the metadata in bridge. Then apply the styles and group the figures and captions in.
The forum epub and ebook is closed to new topics and replies. Indesign automatically detects the cover and the print table of contents option. 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. 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. Fixed layout epub from indesign rorohiko workflow resources. Photos with captions in reflow epub post by ctype 27 jul 2017, 19.
In the export options window, you can set the epub version from the top of the general section. In another example, use indesign to add captions to images in a newsletter using the image metadata. Most epubs require at least some reworking to get a good result, and at best youll create a totall. A caption is descriptive text that appears below an image. Indesign will also suggest some default page sizes suitable for digital publishing formats, such as kindle, ipad and iphone. What are good ways to make an epub with page breaks from. I have a lot of pictures that i would like to have captions for in the indesign document. To determine the text type, indesign uses the epub.
Yes, ive asked the indesign team for a tab order feature. In addition, youll need to enter the paragraph style again here in the caption setup dialog box. Go to file export, name your ebook, and choose epub from the format menu. I have a multichapter book with about 50 graphics that im trying to export to epub. Last month i talked about just what an ebook is a website in a box. Designing, documents formatting, image video editing, content writing, ebook conversion proofreading and digital marketing management.
Setting up live captions in indesign cs5 layers magazine. But thats not all thats weird about indesigns export to epub function. Home forums epub and ebook image with caption in epub tagged. Setting imagehandling to 3 will make epubcrawler do both framebyframe and whole page backgrounds i. Producing epub documents from adobe indesign mobileread. 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. But you can anchor the image in the text story in indesign, then set the text wrap to wrap around object, and in cs5. Feb 03, 2017 in most cases, its not a matter of simply converting.
Aug 23, 2016 no problems, really, except that i have to move the book from cc to cs6 and work there. If a text frame containing the variable is next to or grouped with the image, the variable displays the metadata of that image. Watch this tutorial to learn how to fix style collisions in epub output. 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. We only do 45 books a year, so that overhead isnt really too high. How to design a book and an ebook how to selfpublish. For your orders, please first inbox me to discuss your requirements, thank you. If youre interested, check out my book on creating an epub with indesign. Using an images metadata, indesign can create live captions. Indesign keep options and epub adobe support community. Indesign provides support for the epub 2 section in the opf file. You can group the picture box and caption box and anchor it in text flow.
When you export an indesign file to epub, it will pretty much ignore. 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. This can be helpful when trying to convert image effects from indesign to epub as it will retain any special effects e. Pictures and captions problems in epub export adobe. You can autonumber items like captions, even incorporating prefixes like figure labels. Ive been using this program for many years, and its helped me work efficiently and productively. 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. Indesign also has excellent capabilities for epub design, with options that will help you create both fixedlayout and reflowable ebooks skip to. Keep captions on same page as image reflowable epub. 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. Pagetoscreen indesign cc for print and epub from the same file.
Update i tried exporting a group of pages at a time to try and find the issue. 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. I prefer to keep the caption text live when exporting to epub. First, you can try to know if the problem is with file or with indesign.
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. This can make it easier to fix the threading problem after export later on. Standards of typography have been low in the early years of epub, and designers have been cautioned not to expect creative control. Converting your pdf files to epub readers has never been easier. Im leaving the post here in case someone else has the same issue. When youre exporting a free flowable layout to epub, indesign will reformat the layout using css. Learn how to use indesign to create image captions automatically. How to design a book and an ebook how to selfpublish a. Using numbered lists for captions in indesign using numbered lists for captions in indesign.
Pictures and captions problems in epub export adobe support. Using the instructions in this book, youll be able to create ebooks for almost all ereaders, including the kindle for amazon and epubcompatible. There is some text in this 2page a5 book, as well as some charts and graphics. What it means for epub laura brady november 9, 2017 adobe, epub3, html, indesign, secrets 6 comments the latest version of indesign cc version. Let me explain further by showing some simple sample pages. Converting indesign to flowable and fixedlayout epubs created date. We can even use our captions object style in conjunction with the automatic caption features in indesign. 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. I used indesign to convert an html document into an indesign book. Conversion of an indesign file to epub format adobe. One of the new features introduced in indesign cs5 is live captions. Using the instructions in this book, youll be able to create ebooks for almost all ereaders. 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.
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