Epub On Windows

[Eri Pfaff]

Ihave checked the forums but couldn't find an answer. I'm using indesign cc version 13.1 and working on an epub document using digital publishing tools but my problem and seems like also for others is that I cannot resize the window of the epub interactivity preview. It stays very small which is basically useless to see small buttons, etc. Is there a work-around option for this problem?

I have tried your suggestion, by the way I'm on Windows 10, 64 bit, but although both the character and paragraph windows do resize, as soon as I click on the epub interactivity preview window, it jumps back to a small size and I have tried all sides, but it's not giving an option to resize it bigger.

It is indeed a known issue. It's improved a bit with and CC2018.1 if you dock it, the size will be maintained while you have InDesign open. When you close it and relaunch you'll need to resize it again.

Thanks Bob, but no, I can not resize the window at all. I like to include two screenshots, one where the window is docked with the paragraph panel and the other where it's docked with the Digital Publishing panel. As you can see it is very small and not scale-able at all, while the paragraph Styles window can resize, no problem.

Then I am able to either change width or height. I'm not able to change both. But after changing a bit the width and then the height I'm suddenly able to grab the lower right corner of the panel and change the size from there.

Thanks, you guys did your best, but I'm still where I started off without a solution. I even uninstalled Indesign and installed it in the hope that it will fix my problem but not so. I just wished that Adobe could also chip in with some answers.

I agree, it would be great if Adobe would fix this. It's been a known problem for awhile. My understanding is the problem was created by changes made by the CC team, not the InDesign team. Still, it needs to be fixed.

FWIW, I do *all* my interactive work in CC2017 for this very reason. If you have a big interactive project to get out, I suggest using 2017, where the panel works correctly, never resizes, plays page on open, etc.

I know this might be considered a 'niche' feature for some, as I see it's left out of a lot of the feature suggestions for the new Edge; however, alongside the other inking/reading features in old Edge, I used this feature quite frequently. It's great for students/academics. For extra context, I never purchased books from Microsoft's books section of the Microsoft Store--not one, but I definitely used epub files in Edge. Additionally, because there's no other native e-reader in Windows 10, as there is on iOS, MacOS, and most Android-based devices in some capacity, and the e-readers in the Microsoft Store are terrible, this feature is desperately needed for those who use it. What's the point of having Windows 10 devices be touch-enabled without a decent e-reader??

Frankly, this feature distinguished Edge from other browsers for me and was the only reason I kept it on my taskbar as other work that I do required the blink engine. New Edge needs to remain competitive with other browsers, and this would be one way to do it. Otherwise, a native reader separately packaged with OneDrive integration for libraries would be amazing--but I think that could usefully be done here.

@rsfarris I would like to see it too, but I think it will not be avaliable anymore. Maybe in another application... Microsoft is ending her Book Store... Here, in Brazil, Microsoft did not release this feature.

@rsfarris vollkommene Zustimmung.

Old Edge ist mein Standard Tool fr die Anzeige von EPub und PDF. Ein Betriebssystem wie W10 muss Standardformate anzeigen knnen. OLD Edge leistete dies. New Edge bentigt mehr Zeit um ein PDF zu laden. Ausserdem scrollt er nicht so smooth. Sollte die Fhigkeit EPubs anzuzeigen nicht mehr untersttzt werden, wre das eine Schande.

@PHGJ_1957 From my experience, Frieda is not an equal to Edge in the speed of load/paging turning or rendering as Edge was. It also lacks settings to use the default settings for the book, which makes the reading experience less than pleasant. Unfortunately, none of the epub readers for Windows have what I would consider to be an equivalent experience to what iOS provides out of the box. I traded in my iPad for a Surface Go because I thought I could finally had the right size device and reader app to so on Windows, but now I fear I may regret that choice. There are already warnings in the classic Edge that they will disable epub reading in the near future, which seems unnecessary.

I 100% support this. UWP Edge is by far the best and most functional epub reader I've used, and I've used a lot of them. It's the best when it comes to displaying the books as they are supposed to look like. And with features like Immersive Reader, it beats and any other epub reader app. While adding this to Chromium Edge may be a challenge, I say do it because that'll give Edge a definitive edge over other Chromium based browsers. And if that's not possible, at least make it available as an extension, or hell maybe make a new app for reading epubs, maybe add support for mobi, cbr, pdf, djvus too, make an ultimate UWP ebook reader. @rsfarris

@csantigo At least the old UWP edge could be turned back to Reader. And the new edge would be just a browser. (I don't really need support for more than PDF and EPUB thanks to calibre E-book manager in it I convert MOBI to EPUB and CBZ to PDF)

@KoleckOLP Oh no I just read the message that says .epub reading will be discontinued. Microsoft please let us side load the old UWP edge, I can't find any E-book reader that does .pdf and .ebup in one program and make it look and feel as good as MS EDGE.

I absolutely agree. As I find out today that I can no longer use the old Edge browser to open epub files, it must have been due to the last automated system update few days ago. In my experience, the Edge browser is the best reader when it comes to epub files. It beats all other apps I have tried. I consider it a major feature of Windows 10, and especially so for Surface book users.

@rsfarris I have specifically stopped one of my small Dell tablets from updating an older insider build just to preserve the legacy Edge ePub reader for as long as possible. It is just so good - fast, elegant, stylish, integrated dictionary at the tap of any word, Cortana, read aloud, simple light and dark themes, chapter location and book name at a simple tap and just functional overall. It would surprise you how many ePub readers miss these simple key features. Simple and to the point, just like a real book, no unnecessary bloat and junk. Please consider re-enabling this feature on legacy Edge, or at least release it as a standalone app in the Microsoft Store

As a new user, I'm still finding, or not finding things about Affinity that I expected. I confess I'm a bit disappointed that there's no option to export to epub. That said, perhaps it's a different target audience? My old version of InDesign CC had the option, but mostly I preferred to export an rtf document which was often easier to work on with a variety of apps, including Amazon's Kindle Create (is that what it's called now?)

Unfortunately at this point in time Publisher doesn't support Epub or the other formats you listed however Epub is something we would like to add support for in the future. At this point in time your best bet would likely be exporting to PDF and then using a third party app to convert this PDF into Epub etc.

Better than nothing, so people have to give it a try. Other than that they have to copy/paste texts and image resources over to some much better suited HTML/ePub authoring tool for such purposes. - Personally I always used tools like "iBooks Author" and the like to create readable ePub files.

Having struggled with this for a while, I've settled on PDFelement 6 Pro -- for Mac -- (not free but far more reliable and less involved than any of the free or cheap alternatives I tried). Still seems like a major oversight that a potential InDesign-killer like Publisher doesn't have a way to export either ePub or even a simple .doc/.rtf file. I would have thought this was a basic in today's multi-format publishing world.

Unfortunately, that strategy does not work in many cases. I have many documents that render just fine in affinity and in the PDF file that affinity exports. However, when attempting to load into word, I get garbage.

I had to convert the PDF into a docx and then import that into QuarkXpress so I can begin to set it up for those electronic versions. Its a major task which also requires checking the entire book as the docx conversion is not always perfect.

This is the barrier to actually switching to Affinity for me. Exporting a PDF and converting isn't an option in professional contexts. PDFs are image files and fundamentally incompatible with reflowable ePub functionality. Since Amazon finally got on board, ePubs are the ebook format, and while it doesn't have to be a perfect export (because ePubs come with their own technical nightmares), not being able to export a basic ePub file is a breaking point for anyone in the publishing industry. It's the reason I can't/won't recommend Affinity to my peers in the indie publishing industry who are desperate for an alternative to Adobe. It's the reason I still have to have Adobe in some capacity. I would literally pay double to be able to do this.

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