Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Adobe InDesign CC (2014 Release) includes new and enhanced EPUB file export fea-
tures that improve production and provide greater control for creating compelling ebooks
that can be read on a wide range of electronic reading devices, tablets, and smartphones.
Getting started
In this lesson, you'll put the finishing touches on a booklet of recipes, export the document
as an EPUB, and then preview the exported document.
Note
If you have not already downloaded the project files for this lesson to your
computer from your Account page, make sure to do so now. See “
Getting
Because electronic publications are fundamentally different from print publications in sev-
eral key ways, some basic information about EPUBs may help as you work through this
lesson.
The EPUB standard was designed to allow publishers to create reflowable content that
could be displayed on any electronic reading device and software—such as the Barnes &
Noble Nook, Kobo eReader, Apple's iBooks for iOS (iPad, iPhone), Google Play Books
app for Android (smartphones, tablets), and Adobe Digital Editions software—that sup-
ports the EPUB format. For reflowable EPUBs, the size of ereader screens varies from
device to device, and content flows in a single, continuous thread.
Note
At the time of publication, Amazon Kindle does not support the EPUB
standard, but converts submitted EPUB files to its own proprietary Kindle
format.
In this lesson you will create a reflowable EPUB. Its content will be adjusted to fit the
ereader's screen size; therefore, the page size of the InDesign document does not have to
correspond to any particular device screen size and is set to a standard 8.5″ × 11″ page size.
1.
To ensure that the preference and default settings of your Adobe InDesign program
match those used in this lesson, move the InDesign Defaults file to a different
folder following the procedure in “
Saving and restoring the InDesign Defaults file
”
on page
3
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