Important tips for indesign users when making ebooks. 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. Youll use one of the new features introduced in indesign cs5, which is live captions. What is and is not included in an indesign epub export. One thats, above all, in sync with the published epub 3 specifications, thats accessible and futureproof with properly formatted text, images, captions, tables of content, indexes.
You have probably used one or two of the methods with varying amounts of success. Creating quick captions in indesign cs5 layers magazine. Nov 17, 2014 an image and its caption or short associated text should be glued together on the same page. If you place images in your indesign file without anchoring them to the specific location you want them, this position will be ignored in the exported epub file, and your images will appear at the end of the section they belong to, or even at the very end of the ebook. These two methods are bulletproof and currently recommended, but far from optimal. Indesign uses epub3 and html5 code to create ebooks with audio, video, and other advanced features. Doing so can cause problems when the same document is also converted to epub later on. Using an images metadata, indesign can create live captions.
Keep captions on same page as image reflowable epub. Indesign does a pretty good job of putting the images into your epub. One thing you can do is enclose the image and the caption inside a div statement and provide a css for the statement that includes pagebreakinside. Maybe this is why the generate livestatic captions options are dimmed. All of the image and caption groups will now export to epub with the desired result of. Once your image is placed, you can resize it to how youd like it to look. In this video, the first example is a contact sheet where indesign automatically creates captions based on the image file names. Check the quality of the images electric book works. To ensure the alt text remains with the image, enter it as metadata in adobe bridge. Indesign keep options and epub adobe support community.
But i do not want to turn my captions into an image, and i believe and. Epub3 and html5 presentation, media playback, and doublebyte character support for example, chinese, japanese, or korean may not be supported by all devices, browsers, or epub readers. I have a large document with images, they have captions, and i have generated a table of content for these images list of figures not to be confused with the document toc. This can be helpful when trying to convert image effects from indesign to epub as it will retain any special effects e. Photos with captions in reflow epub post by ctype 27 jul 2017, 19. Although it doesnt work with kindle kf8, it will serve you well in epubs that you publish with ibooks or most other outlets. How to design a book and an ebook how to selfpublish a. After exporting to epub every style of indesign will be marked as a. I have a multichapter book with about 50 graphics that im trying to export to epub. You can pull this metadata into your alternative text automatically, and, even use in the captions.
But thats not all thats weird about indesigns export to epub function. The thumbnail is displayed in the epub readers or the digital editions reader library view. Home forums epub and ebook image with caption in epub tagged. The alt text you entered is included whenever you export your indesign file as an epub, html, or pdf document. I have an existing layout with text, images and captions. This topic contains 5 replies, has 5 voices, and was last updated by annemarie concepcion 7 years, 6 months ago. If a text frame containing the variable is next to or grouped with the image, the variable displays the metadata of that image. Indesign also has excellent capabilities for epub design, with options that will help you create both fixedlayout and reflowable ebooks skip to tip 3 below to find out more even though the current release of cc has been specifically tailored to. Alternatively, you can allow indesign to rasterize the first page in the exported document or the style source document or the exported book. How to resize, compress, and insert images into your ebook. Jo gulliver shows how to create captions using information added to an image s metadata. Use photoshop to add metadata title, description etc. Well, when you export to epub, the content flow takes on a whole new life.
Adding gifs to an epub id like to include animations in an epub designed primarily for ipad, tablet, and desktop viewing, not kindle or nook, but i am having trouble working it out. The options for automation discussed below depend on image files having the desired metadata established as part of its file info. Images appeared fine on ibooks, but were distorted on the kindle platform. If a text frame containing the variable is next to or grouped with the. 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. Indesign cc does a good job with images on export to epub, but there are some important details you need to consider.
I have done everything i can think of with keep options to achieve this. Sep 26, 2018 i just did some troubleshooting on an epub exported from indesign, with indesign writing the css. In another example, use indesign to add captions to images in a newsletter using the image metadata. Work with images create polished ebooks with new features in.
You can now also rasterize any shapes, text frames, placed graphics, and groups you created in indesign, so that theyll be exported as images and resize dynamically, too. Indesign provides a special caption variable that displays the specified metadata of an image. In this video, learn about autogenerating image captions from the image metadata. Aug 25, 2017 in simpler projects we have already been able to validate the epub directly from the indesign export. Nov 14, 2016 i am creating an epub with indesign cc 2015. This can speed up your magazine layout design work in indesign. You can generate a caption from an existing image or while placing it, and you can create a text frame that contains a. At this point you only need to make sure that image quality is set to best and dpi is set to 144. I thought that it would be as simple as embedding gifs as objects, but they are just coming out as still images, not animating. And do not worry because epub 3 is compatible with older readers and ereaders which only support epub 2. Ebooks stack exchange is a question and answer site for ebook publishers and readers. I understand i can resize the images but i wanted to tie the captions with the image.
The forum epub and ebook is closed to new topics and replies. What i want is the image caption to look like this, short and sweet. Typically when most of us create a layout in indesign, images are placed. Indesign provides several methods for creating captions that display the image metadata you specify. Even if i convert it to other format like mobi epub. She is a speaker, writer, and trainer, focusing on adobe indesign and illustrator, apple keynote and ibooks author, and other print and productionrelated topics.
Oct 06, 2010 creating captions, one of the most mundane tasks in page layout, can now be automated in indesign cs5. The pics have captions, and no matter what, it seems, indesign cant write an epub that keeps captions and pics together properly. Avoid, at all costs editing the xhtml files inside the epub package, otherwise you make it difficult to roundtrip to indesign. Mar 14, 2019 in this video, learn about autogenerating image captions from the image metadata. Adobe indesign provides several choices for creating captions automatically. I dug into the epub, and found this css for the image. Note that due to how live captions are created, updates to the object style arent. Setting up live captions in indesign cs5 layers magazine. Run the automatic captions on your images and the style is automatically applied. As a specialist publishing program, adobe indesign has always been the book designers software of choice when it comes to creating print books.
All of the image and caption groups will now export to epub with the desired result of keeping the groups together and retaining live text. Mar 24, 2017 in other words the default font size for the html element p what about the page size then. Before generating automatic captions, assign the caption object style to be the default style by dragging the text frame icon next to the caption style in the object styles panel. The guide to designing your epub ebook with indesign. Text flow and structure for the best results for the simplest of books, is to be sure that all text if threaded in one story. Pictures and captions problems in epub export adobe. Add an external image or convert the first page to become the ebook cover. Learn whats hidden inside an epub, the ebook standard format, and how indesign can be the fastest road to an epub, with its ability to automatically convert your files into the necessary html and css. In addition to gif and jpeg images, you can export png images in epub documents from indesign cs5. My client wants images, captions, and image credits to lock together and never break across pages. In this linkedin learning course, im going to make sure that you understand what needs to be done to an indesign file to result in a beautifully output ebook. Is there any way to achieve this in word, epub or mobi file. Pagetoscreen indesign cc for print and epub from the same file.
For more great indesign to epub tips and tricks, come to rons workshop, leveraging indesign for all its worth. If you accept that the reflowable epub will not necessarily look exactly like the indesign page, then you can make the page size whatever you want, but maybe we really want to see the indesign page layout so that it almost nearly reflects the view that will be seen in the ebook. 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. Even if i convert it to other format like mobiepub. However, it is not added to the metadata for the image file itself, so youll need to enter it again if you use the image in a different document. When exporting to pdf from indesign its important you select adobe pdf interactive. How to use indesigns anchored objects to create quality ebooks. Oh, and yes, feel free to center text with textalign. 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. Setting imagehandling to 3 will make epubcrawler do both framebyframe and whole page backgrounds i. Learn how to use the software you already know and love for print publicationsadobe indesign ccto create great looking ebooks. Oct 02, 2012 this specific tutorial is a single movie from chapter four of the indesign cs5.