Ahoy,
I recently posted a question on Adobe’s InDesign EPUB Discussions where I wanted to know how to get Readium to launch as a viewing app after an ePUB export on a machine running Windows. This initially seemed not possible because InDesign requires an app with a .exe file extension. Radium runs inside of Chrome and has no such extension. Then I got an idea on how to work around this:
1. Open up Chrome and click the Show Apps shortcut. Readium should show up on this page along with the other standard Google apps; otherwise it needs to be installed.
2. Right click on the Readium shortcut and choose: Create Shortcuts… to make the shortcut on the desktop.
3. Single-click the desktop shortcut and press Alt+Enter to open the Properties window.
4. This should open the Shortcut tab and highlight the text in the Target field
It should read like this: “C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” –profile-directory=Default –app-id=fepbnnnkkadjhjahcafoaglimekefifl
5. Press Cntrl + C to copy this to the clipboard
6. Create a new blank text document on the desktop and rename the extension to .bat example: openReadium.bat
7. Right click this file and choose Edit. Then paste the contents of the Target field and save + close it.
8. Double-click this bat file to confirm it opens Readium as a stand alone window
9. Copy the file name to the clipboard – be sure to include the .bat extension
10. Switch over to InDesign and click Export (flowable or fixed-layout)
11. Click the View Apps tab and then click the Add Application… button
12. Navigate to the desktop – note that only .exe files will be visible, because InDesign filters out all other extensions
13. Press ‘Cntrl + V’ to paste the file name into the File Name: field – this should **read something like: C:\Users\windowsUser\Desktop\readium.bat
**Instead of seeing windowsUser, you should see whatever name is currently logged in on your machine
That’s it! Complete the Export process and Readium along with any other eReaders you’ve set up in View Apps should open up your ePUB.
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