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• • January 22, 2014 at 4:53 pm #66770
    Celine Rich

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    I am watching Anne-Marie’s E-Pub Fundamentals and David’s InDesign Essential Training (also Designing a Book with David French)on Lynda.com.

    I want to make an illustrated children’s ebook which I can sell on Amazon and other bookstores. I have the text and the illustrations. (I am familiar with designing brochures, posters and other business documents in InDesign.)

    What size to I make the original InDesign document where I will design my book in order to have a successful export to EPub?

    Many thanks for your help.
    Celine

  • June 17, 2014 at 10:13 am #69039
    Sheri G

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    Keep in mind that the page size you start with in InDesign has no bearing on the final product, because ePubs are flowing documents that can be sized up or down by the eBook reading device. So set the book up as you would a print book, using whatever page size works best for your project. But since you are working on a picture book, you will want to be sure that your images are sized to fit most eReader screens:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_e-book_readers

    Looking at the list, you can see that most eReader screens are at least 600 pixels wide, so I would aim for keeping my photos and illustrations to that width. Or, you can create a “photo” style that will set the width of your photos to 100% width, so it will automatically adjust to the width of the particular device.

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