[Bro Code Ebook Epub 20
Gildo Santiago
The most interesting parameter is the --css=templates/epub.css parameter. EPUBis basically an (X)HTML format and includes standard HTML tags like div, blockquote, pre, code.Therefore, they can be styled using CSS by embedding aCSS file in the epub output.
The example is still underwhelming. It looks like creating the epub from pandocdoes not really respect the margins and line-heights. I also noticed that thesyntax highlighting is broken on some e-readers and a horizontal scrollbar isshown when code lines overflow.
Producing Reflowable ePubs is not intuitive. They follow the rules of HTML, that's why your text and images are not in the correct order. All images need to be anchored, text given Paragraph Styles, no page sizes or numbers, Parent page content is not implemented and so on. LinkedIn Learning has a very good step-by-steo online video tutorial which you'd find invaluable (you can get 30-days free access).
I`m writing a short book with about 42 pages, its about drugtreatment and I want to use it for my work. I started using InDesign in the beginning of 2022, a couple of hours a week first, then it became a couple of hours a day. Im not familiar with the computerlingo, Ive been watchin videos on Youtube, reading forum but I still have difficulties for understanding. For example "follow the rules of HTML" I dont understand. Its like you wrote, the text and pictures are not in order. It seems like the epubfile doesnt know when a chapter stops and anew starts. I understand that it can be fixed and my knowledge is not enough. Again, thank you for yoyr answer, I didnt expect get any answer.
It may not help if you don't have any experience with web code, but EPUB documents are basically just "packaged web pages." They use HTML to define the content, and CSS to define the styles. If you know anything about those basics, it becomes a little easier to understand what's happening in an EPUB file, and even learn how to get advanced results.
To sum up what both Derek and I said, an InDesign document for EPUB export has to be one, single text flow. You can't break it up into different, unlinked text frames or have multiple text flows. And each illustration must be anchored to the point in that flow where you want it to appear in the EPUB.
If you just "paste" text frames and graphic frames to InDesign pages, without respecting that "one flow" rule, you will just get a jumble of elements, as the export process doesn't know how they go together as separate pieces.
1) Validators are quite variable and, truth, not really of much use unless you are hand-assembling your EPUBs. EPUBs exported from a reliable creator like InDesign either work or they don't; minor validation warnings are irrelevant to 95% of the downstream.
2) Validators being variable, the only one really worth paying attention to is EPUBcheck. A bit tricky to use, since it's a command-line tool, but it's the only one that's up to date and standards-based. It is often used as the "engine" of other validators... but nearly all of those impose their own checks and preferences, making the validation questionable.
3) ADE is absolutely useless. Never use it to view EPUB, much less proof new work. Use a vanilla, standards-based reader like Thorium, with Calibre being a good second. All of the rest are broken, proprietary or otherwise poor choices to check a new export.
5) If it's a fixed-page EPUB (FXL), you don't have the option to avoid embedding fonts, but that's just one of the many reasons to avoid FXL altogether. If you want EPUB, go with reflowable and an export that any reader can manage without interference like embedded fonts. If you want fixed page export, use PDF instead.
I`m writing a short book with about 42 pages, its about drugtreatment and I want to use it for my work. I started using InDesign in the beginning of 2022, a couple of hours a week first, then it became a couple of hours a day.
Here's the tutorial's description from the site:
Learn how to create an ebook in Adobe InDesign. This course helps you convert an InDesign publication to a reflowable EPUB, the open-source ebook format that is the standard for most distribution channels, including Apple iBook Store, Barnes & Noble Nook book store, Google Play Books, Kobo, and OverDrive, and is the basis for Kindle ebooks. Instructor Anne-Marie Concepcin explains exactly what an EPUB is, and then steps you through the process of editing and proofing in easy-to-follow stages. Learn how to prepare your InDesign file for EPUB conversion, convert Word manuscripts, optimize text and images, embed fonts, use free scripts, and add special features for accessibility and cleaner HTML and CSS. Anne-Marie reviews the many different export options, providing recommendations on which to choose; shows how to validate and proof your final export on mobile ereaders; and explains how to set up publisher accounts at resellers like the iBook Store and Amazon Kindle Store. Finally, she shows to convert an EPUB to the Kindle format and preview it on the desktop before uploading it to your Kindle Direct Publishing account.
Hmm. The situation may be different in Sweden, or in your field or area of interest, but in general a "publisher" that charges for any service is a suspicious thing in the US. (That is distinguished from a "design" or "publication development" service, but it sounds as if you are doing all that work, to pay someone else to publish and distribute your books. I'd have questions about such an arrangement.)
Hr i Sverige r det betydligt dyrare att f hjlp med att f t.ex.en pdf-fil konverterad till en fldande epubfil. En av de strsta och mest plitliga distributrerna fr e-bcker har ett system att man laddar ned sin ebok i deras "bibliotek" - de sprider boken/bckerna vidare till de stora nrbokhandlarna, bibliotek och skolor inom landet. De tar ca.20% fr varje sld bok.
Dremot r det ingen skatt som behver betalas fr ebcker, det r frdel (fysiska bcker har en skatt p 25% av all vinst, samt distributternas procentdel och annat - personen som skrivit fr i genomsnitt 15-20% av vinsten....)
Vill verkligen kunna klara av det sjlv, knns dock bra att de finns hjlp frn bder er, samt tjnsten jag fick tips om. Har ftt lra mig det mesta sjlv, som ni kallar det "Trial and error" - prova genom att rycka mig fram, blir det fel. Jag har under de senaste tv decennierna arbetat som alkohol och drogterapeut och detta r bokstavligen helt nytt fr mig. Som skrivet tidigare - brjade jag i brjan av r 2022 med InDesign. Material som jag sammanstllt frn mitt arbete vill jag kunna n ut med till fler mnniskor som kan behva hjlp med ett beroende av en substans via ebcker - tnker p de som inte vgar ska hjlp - hr i Sverige blir en person som sker hjlp fr missbruk/beroende av droger samtidigt med i en slags kriminell registreringen - detta innebr att mnga vljer att inte ska hjlp p.g.a. eventuella negativa konsekvenser. Man fr sedan hjlp via beroendevrden - det r en karusell i detta land d det gller detta stora vrldproblem.
"EPUB can be exported from multiple INDD files using the Book feature , but a single source file will often work better, and will avoid many export problems. Don't use the Book method unless you have to."
You should see a folder called _book appear on the root of your project.Inside this folder, you will see a bunch of .html files: these constitute theweb-site of your book. You can right click on index.html and open it with aweb browser and see how your book, as a web-site, looks like. You could hostthis book on Github pages for free!
However this is not enough. There is a bug in the current release of Quarto thatprevents this from working, even though we did what we should. However, this bugis already corrected in the development version of the nextrelease.But until the next version of Quarto, 1.3, gets released, here is theworkaround; you need to also specify the language of the book:
is related to the image. It turns out that including the image like we didgenerates code that is not quite correct from the point of view of thestandard that Epubs should follow. You should know that Epubs are actually acollection of HTML files, so you can include images by using HTML code in thesource Markdown files.
Now, each time you push, you should see your Epub get built in the gh-pagesbranch! If you use R code chunks, you also need to set up an action to set up R.Take a look at therepoof my book for an example.
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