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• • March 16, 2013 at 6:32 am #64420
    Anonymous

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    Hello,

    I am new to all this stuff. I am a teacher trying to figure out how to create our own interactive Geography book. I designed a lesson reading in InDesign CS6, with video and hidden buttons to reveal answers to questions asked during the reading. When I export it, in both epub2 and epub3 formats, the formating is all gone. Text is strange locations, images in different locations, some images and “buttons” appear at the end of the entire document — instead of within the flow of the text.

    Any ideas? I'm sure I am missing something, possibly basic, since I am doing “trial and error” right now.

    Here is the indesign file: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzHj6AzbbxcIWExWYW1NdmtjQ0E/edit?usp=sharing

    And here are pictures of the format in InDesign and then the result.

    Thanks for any help you can provide!

    

  • March 16, 2013 at 8:41 am #64421
    Amy Gilbert

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    You need to do one of two things to get your images and other content to appear in the right place in the epub:

    1. Put all your content inline with the text. To do this, copy the object, put your cursor inside the text box and paste it. Then you can use Object->Anchored Object->Options to reposition the image where you want it.

    or

    2. Use the Articles panel to tell InDesign what order to output your content. When the Articles Panel is first opened it gives you a brief explanation of how to use it.

    I don't know about the interactivity or how to get that to work. I've never done an ebook with interactivity. I think that requires epub 3 output though. And, it probably will require some tweaking after the fact of the XHTML and CSS files.

    This is a pretty advanced project for a beginner. I suggest you sign up for lynda.com if you aren't already and take some tutorials on InDesign, epub, html and css.

  • March 16, 2013 at 3:22 pm #64423
    Amy Gilbert

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    Also, is there a reason you aren't outputting to PDF? If you aren't trying to sell the book, that might be your best option.

  • March 17, 2013 at 7:07 pm #64425
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thanks for the replies!

    This is not for publishing, rather for use by our students. (We are campaigning for at the very least, classroom sets of Android tablets for our new course.)

    I have exported as PDFs, but the tablet readers don't handle the interactivity either. Buttons, video, etc… in the PDFs. :-(

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