Anchoring and Wrapping
We look at how to ‘place’ images on the page, and the issues that we might encounter along the way.
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We look at how to ‘place’ images on the page, and the issues that we might encounter along the way.
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The table of contents (TOC) belongs to, what are normally referrer to as, the front matter. We might also refer to them as the prelim pages.
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XML is eXtensible Markup Language and is a non-proprietary markup language that can be used as a future-proof way to store content. XML indicates structure rather than style; in fact XML includes no information about appearance, only structure, hierarchy and element taxonomy.
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This work follows on from previous workflows in creating a Shakespeare play for print. We should already have an Indesign ‘book’ with at least 2 sections. We will export from InDesign for ePub (reflowable) and then 'break open' the ePub file and make some changes to some of the included files.
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There are some ways we can creatively enhance the eBook version to provide some interactivity and multimedia that can go beyond the traditional book page.
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These need to be separated from the main body of the text, and are best set with a smaller size and possibly event a different typeface and colour. The idea of any notes is that it is supplementary information and it is entirely optional that the reader even bothers to look, so setting in a style that does not distract from the flow of the reading experience is important.
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HTML is the language for the web; delivering content for our various types of screens. InDesign is a *page layout* tool; presuming for the printed page, but we can still generate HTML from our content and with some attention to detail, we can can get good HTML markup ready for further styling and attention to a responsive design.
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This fixed-layout format can be considered almost the same as an interactive PDF, however, as you will see, the ePUB can have much more interactivity and, you, the designer can control the way the eBook is displayed.
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The fixed-layout format ePUB3 format provides a way to deliver every single page in your print book laid out just as it was in the print version.
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The Pages panel will show you the pages in your document as thumbnails. You can configure the way this displays through the Panel Options from the context menu in the Pages panel.
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At some point during our workflow and design process we want to send something to the proof printer. Normally the best approach to this is to output to PDF from InDesign and then print from this file.
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When working with text from sources outside InDesign, we are likely to find that we want to make changes as soon as we ‘place’ in InDesign.
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InDesign is a brilliant tool to design the display of type on a page. We have every possible control over the letters, the words, the lines, the paragraphs and how the blocks of type are shaped, spaced and aligned.
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We need a print ready PDF of the full cover for a paperback book with image (optional) and title on the front and some blurb on the back.
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Quite often we will be working with very long publications that will benefit from the concept of separate files for separate sections or chapters. There are also advantages from having individuals in a team, work on different InDesign files (with common styles), and then bring them all together inside one book.
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A presentation that cover aspects of my book I walk through the issues when creating reflowable eBooks.
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This screencast demonstrates a web-first publishing system. It uses a web interface to provide an editing environment which, when ready for page layout publishing ready, can be exported to XML.
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When we export our book to the reflowable ePub from InDesign, we have a choice about the content order. Usually we choose ‘Based on Page Layout’, but if you want to make sure that your front matter pages don’t end up at the back of the book, then you need to use the Articles Panel to organise the content.
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With a Shakespeare play in mind we have a DTD that we can import into InDesign. This provides us with the TAGS. If we name our styles with those same tags, we can ‘map the styles to the tags’ very easily.
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First things: I am not using the overlays feature of InDesign.
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In this screencast we show how we can make style changes in InDesign and then reflect those changes in the linked Word version. Although we cannot directly export the MS Word we can use the intermediary format of RTF.
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We have our play (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) placed in InDesign, but we have some changes we want to make to the text.
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In our InDesign document all content needs to be attached to an appropriate style element.
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This is a 2 part screencast
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This is a 2 part screencast
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Sometimes we want to give editors some editing capabilities after the text has been placed into InDesign. To do this we need to maintain a link between the Word file (.docx) and the InDesign document.
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We look at the results of our first effort and see what needs changing to get a better looking eBook.
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Part 2 of the 2 part screencast Now we have created separate IDML files from InDesign we need to import these into an iBooks Author template.
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This is a 2 part screencast
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We take an existing InDesign document prepared for print and export to ePub. We then make some adjustments and do that again.
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We can generate good quality, sensible HTML markup from InDesign so long as we make some adjustments to the way the HTML tags are mapped from our styles.
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In book design there is often a requirement for headers on the page; that is text that is displayed in the margin that describes the title and often the author of the book. This text may be displayed in the top or bottom margin. Further into the book pages we may want running headers. These are dynamically generated items that change according to where we are in the book. How do we generate these running headers?
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When we use iBooks Author, it is essential to consider the structure of our content.
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Although the ePub3 format can support popup notes, it is difficult to achieve this in the fixed-layout version from InDesign.
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This is the second screencast that deals with interactive information for the fixed-layout ePub.
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This is a Multi-part screencast (please view parts 1 and 2 first)
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This is a Multi part screencast (please see part 1 first)
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This is a Multi part screencast
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Once we have exported the reflow-able ePub from InDesign, we can make changes by editing the CSS that InDesign has created. We want to achieve a roundtrip workflow, allowing us the potential to go back to InDesign and re-export. To achieve this we must make our own version of the CSS, that will override those generated by InDesign.
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This is a Multi-part screencast
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Our eBook production workflow involves perfecting for the ePub3 format first by exporting from InDesign and then making minimal adjustments through our own CSS file. Once we have everything ready to go, we can then convert this ePub to the MOBI file for the Amazon Kindle.
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This screencast explains how images should placed into InDesign and then anchored into the text.
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Just for Apple Books
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The baseline in typography is the imaginary line on which most letters sit. The descenders of letters will extend below this line. Also, the body of some letters such as the J and Q in some typefaces will also extend slightly below this baseline.
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We are using an InDesign book to build a recipe eBook. We have added our recipes, now we need the front matter pages. We will also need an introduction to our book; this will come after the table of contents.
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Here is a look at 4 different eBook versions of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, with an explanation of how they were created.
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