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• • January 29, 2012 at 8:15 pm #61575
    Felipe Alexandre Santos

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    I would like to know the opinion this forum about some “features” of InDesign CS5.5 to produce EPUB in comparison as the last version CS5

    First – Break Chapter

    Now, I just can choose one paragraph style to break chapter. In CS5 I was be able to choose the first level TOC, one, two or else styles… more flexibility I think.

    Wish – I would like so much break chapter in more that just one paragraph style, is possible?

    Second – footnotes goes to the end the chapter

    Now, again, the footnotes always goes to the end the each chapter (XHTML file) instead of the end of book. alike CS5 behavior.

    I have just one inDesign file. If I want all foot notes in end of the book. I can't divide the book by TOC..Very bad. Imagine my hard work to divide one book with 1000 pages.

    Wish – I would like so much divide my books in InDesign and get all footnotes in end of the book, how the same was it in CS5 version. Is possible?

    These changes don´t improve my works with eBooks, because, now, I need to do more steps to get the same results that I had with InDesign CS5.

    Anyone knows some workaround to solve these “problems”.

    PS. I know that CS5.5 has good features to help us to produce better eBooks, but these two situations are very bad

    I thanks any help

    kind regards

  • January 30, 2012 at 4:47 pm #61577
    Amy Gilbert

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    I don't use footnotes, so I was unaware of the difference. I suppose there is an inconvenience to not being able to have multiple styles signify chapter breaks. But since I don't really ever need to have more than one heading for my chapters, the benefits in CS5.5 far outway the disadvantages for me.

    One thing I use extensively now is the export tagging. This is what makes it all worthwhile to me. I simply design my css style sheet outside of InDesign and set up all my styles to output to the appropriate tag. This solves the problem of not having a class for your plain body text (it can just use the p tag) and allows you to use heading styles whenever appropriate (not just when there's a chapter break). It makes for a much cleaner, and therefore easier to edit, css style sheet.

    Another big plus is the Articles Panel. I don't use it a lot but it can be really helpful for documents with complex layouts that need to be used for both print and epub.

    And then there's just the bugs and improved support. For instance, Now you can use InDesign's TOC feature to create a linked TOC (you used to have to create hyperlinks by hand). Nested styles will output properly with the character styles applied as a span class. In CS5 the nested character styles were ignored.

    If you are a member of Lynda.com, take a look at Ann-Marie's tutorial for CS5.5 epub output. It's great for an overview of the new features.

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