Creating an iBook (ePUB) for the iPad with InDesign CS5

[realinterfacestudios]

Can you please point us in the right direction?

We have comic books that need to be converted into Fixed Layout ePubs. Can InDesign work with creating comics-stype ePubs as you have done here? If so, where do we start learning from?

[NeechTree]

I have found your tutorials very helpful! But I have finding it impossible to figure out one thing when creating an epub: how to override the auto text flow and get scene breaks (***) to center.

Any advice Terry, or anyone? This is a book that will be used on ipads, and all other e-readers as well, so I do need the auto text flow to work, all except for scene breaks. Any help is appreciated greatly!!!!!

Nichole

[monicapayday]

i cant get it to autoflow the text like you're saying. it doesnt flow the new text into a new page. help?

[yonatanorion]

Just amazing. Thanks a lot.

[soulflyz88]

Good detail info. Thanks.

[cenzi6]

hey, why did my cover attach itself to the FIRST Heading, therefore, page1 in the book? great tutorial BTW!!!!

[GuruPadaPadma]

i can't open the book on iBooks on my iMac ...

[MatthewJMcCarthy]

Hi, thanks for such an informative video. Question: How would I protect my eBook made in Adobe's InDesign from unauthorized users copying it? Thanks.

[JonathanCZH]

Hi, I seem to have an issue when I preview my document in Digital Editions. There isn't any page breaks so all the words are squeezed into the first page. Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

[ljlucero12]

Thanks so much for posting this!

[spotte7777]

I've been using InDesign for years for print books and need to adapt the old designs to epub formats, especially Kindle. In our print pubs, the text only flows through each chapter but not continuously through the entire book. It sounds like, I have to create a new InDesign book, and reflow all the chapters. I was about to reformat all the InDesign files to MS Word and convert that to HTML, but I'd prefer to keep it in InDesign.

[jppotter20]

What size I use for Ipod Touch 4/Iphone 4

[greek17]

My CS5 doesn't let me put in these dimensions for some reason? it seas the margin and column dimensions cannot be used with these dimensions. also it does not let me put the dimensions in pixels..only in mm. even if i put them in in pixels and it converts it to mm it still says it cannot be used!! help me!:)

[imashitup]

@greek17  >> I had the same problem. Terry forgot to type 5.5in and 8.25in. The way it shows in the video the margins and gutters = more than the total width. A small detail.

[anynguyen]

Hi Terry, thanks for the tutorial! But I can't find this book (epub) from you on iStore. Why don't you public this book on iStore?

[TheKillerFabivs]

What size should I use for an iPod Touch/iPhone ?

[wahymail]

Hi Mr Terry.. Greetings,

Can you please send to me this original InDesign CS5 file.. its a good work .. you are a good teacher :) Respect. i badly needed.

shvick@live.co.uk

[wahymail]

Hi Mr Terry.. can you please send to me this original InDesign CS5 file.. its a good work .. you are a good teacher :)

respect.

shvick@live.co.uk

[archerius2]

awesome! thank you :)

[RoninUK]

Great Tut Terry - Quick clean and informative. Thanks.

[thephotobooks]

Is it possible to do this in CS3? If so, how do I export the file? When I go to Export, the EPUB option isn't available.

Thanks!

[breadqueen]

I am using a PC. Would you explain again how to make the pages flow like a word processor?

[SBARTSTV]

i really like this but this is such a pain your all over the place. and you skip the entire beginning. I wish you would redue this so it starts with opening up indesign, and then adding the graphics and doing it from start to finish not backwards through but its really nice

[shabati]

Awesome! thank YOU!!

[ssssaaafff]

Get the Fujitsu ScanSape scanner and with the free software one can scan any book into PDF then convert to ePub. I take a book and cut 3/8" of the spine of the book with a cheap band saw and then I can feed a 600 page book thru the scanner in 10 min. The software will then convert it to a word search-able PDF. It use a program called Fine Reader. The books come out %99.9 perfect in the exact format of the book with all color pictures and tables in perfect place. Goodbye my 100's of books.

[aaltoni]

awesome TIPS...:D

[ptempest84]

How do you get text over an image without making it part of the image? So that the text is still recognized as text in the reader.

Thanks

[zDSpider]

At 1:15 you said the cover is limited to "one graphic, one frame". But since the ePUB format uses XHTM and CSS, can't you just overlap, for example, a big SVG file for the frame of the cover under a transparent PNG image (a product, a statue, etc) for a cleaner look ?

[amcreynolds1]

@terrywhitetechblog Why would I get this error message when I follow your setup (0:44): "Specified margin and column setup does not fit within specified page size?"

[drasparagus]

Terry...as far as InDesign goes....you are the man! Thanks for all the great tuts and insight....keep on keepin' on!

[edgardrodriguezruiz]

I have a good question, how much you can charge for the creation of a IBooks for Ipad?

thanks

[adpeed]

Please someone tell me how to replace the generic image that shows up on the Table of Contents page with my book cover or other photo.

[SlinkyStudio]

@adpeed Dude Indesign sucks at creating ePub documents use Pages it's does everything you tell it too unlike Indesign.

[iiReaCti0nZzxPS3]

Woow i'm gonna make an iBook with porn pictures!

[jnursey23]

what is the best font size to have text in for display on iBook?

[chatoxl]

It Works on the CS3 Version...?

[terrabyteGraphics]

Fantastic. Concise and informative... Terry, thanks for sharing!

[natarajsasid]

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[Four1LF]

Great video... does the epub you made pass the epub checker?

[DirtyOne2090]

Thanks a lot for this video, very usefull ! :)

[silviarebello]

tks a lot, terry! it really helped us!

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[orotan]

thx a lot. I'll try it right away with my turkish cuisine book....  ;)

[dervideohesse]

Great Video! When I save the file as epub it does not keep the Text Layout... Not breaks no nothing... Any tipps what I made wrong?

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[GlennKramer]

Excellent! Thank you Terry for an excellent video AND for saving it in 720HD format. This is perfect! I want to ask you, how do you upload ePUB books to the Apple Store. Is this hard to do?

[charlesajking]

"Don't worry about the fonts that you use"

Bzzt - wrong!

ePub is perfectly capable of embedding fonts and bringing them over with the book, EXCEPT on the iPad, which fails to implement the epub spec fully. In fact you show how the epub carries references to the right fonts when you open your example in Adobe Digital Editions. Solution - people need to buy a better epub reader or wait for Apple to get their act together.

Pity it doesn't export the right meta element so iTunes finds the cover.

[rmcdaniels]

@charlesajking Considering the title of the video is; "Creating an iBook (ePUB) for the iPad with InDesign CS5", Terry is exactly right. If the video were an indepth discussion of the ePub specs and analysis of what is supported on various devices then your comment would make sense.

[trusoljahs]

awesome vid keep up the great work thanks

[artaxias]

Terry, there is a built-in Amazon url shortener that you could use instead of 3rd-party ones. It's on the right side of the product page. It produces 5 character "amzn" links

Bitly, Tinyurl, etc are nice, but there is no guarantee how long those links will stay up. Several of these services have gone belly up and it's a waste of time to go and manually update the links in the future.

Thanks for the video.

[szabiakanich]

That was a great tutorial. Very informative. And yeah, that export thing was really fast. Sometimes it's funny how you think that something's broken if it's THAT fast. :) Great stuff. Keep it up.

[Searching2Fonts]

did u create this on your new macbook pro?

[terrywhitetechblog]

@Searching2Fonts Yep!, created on the MBP, although the video was recorded on my Mac Pro which had the mic already setup.

[chatoxl]

Wait! That means that you Just can Make it with a Mac!?

[adpeed]

@chatoxl You can use either PC or Mac.

[chatoxl]

@adpeed Yes, I know.... I already did my iBook! It Works!

[persuasive26]

great video m8!!!

[terrywhitetechblog]

@persuasive26 Thanks!

[ArSYniiC]

This is hot man. Can't wait to buy CS5.

[xROBERTxDAVISx]

can you do this in cs4?

[terrywhitetechblog]

@xROBERTxDAVISx yes, but there are some new features in CS5 that make it easier.