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• • March 27, 2019 at 6:32 pm #115605
    Demetri Condos

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    Hi Everyone,

    Is InDesign CS6 still a valid software platform for creating a reflowable EPUB in 2019.

  • March 28, 2019 at 8:08 am #115621
    Aaron Troia

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    Hey Demetri,

    No, CS6 export is not even close to today’s EPUB3 standards for producing valid files. Considering it was released in 1999, I believe it only has the option to export EPUB2 files.

    Aaron

    • March 28, 2019 at 8:15 am #115622
      David Goodrich

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      CS6 is certainly long in the tooth, but it is not antediluvian. Wikipedia sez 2012.

    • March 28, 2019 at 8:24 am #115623
      Aaron Troia

      Participant

      Sorry, you’re right David, I had googled the release date of CS6 and didn’t realize the result was the very first release of InDesign 1.0.

  • March 30, 2019 at 3:47 pm #115683
    Demetri Condos

    Member

    Great, thanks for the feedback. I think the takeaway from your comments is, correct me if I’m wrong, that one should be using the most current version of EPUB and software the supports the current standard. Therefore would you only publish to the EPUB 3.1 ?

    InDesign CS6 is Adobe version 8 release
    It offers the following EPUB Export Options:
    EPUB 2.0.1
    EPUB 3.0
    EPUB 3.0 with Layout

  • March 31, 2019 at 8:14 am #115686
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

    Member

    Publish to EPUB 2.01 or 3.0; “with layout” was a failed experiment. (It has nothing to do with Fixed Layout EPUBs, added in later versions.)

    Be sure to validate the epub afterwards.

    AM

  • March 31, 2019 at 3:20 pm #115692
    Demetri Condos

    Member

    Thanks for the advice :)

  • September 6, 2019 at 12:05 am #14324172
    D B

    Member

    I was about to create a similar thread for InDesign CC 2019, but thought I’d try adding my question here:

    As an experienced InDesign user, would InDesign still be the first choice for eproduction, for text which is not typeset in InDesign?

    I have several text-only manuscripts (in rich text) which aren’t going to be typeset for print. I’m wondering if I should still use InDesign as my first port-of-call, or jump straight into another workflow, which might prevent all the css/html editing which my old InDesign CC epubs required.

    Would Calibre, another app, or a new online tool (as yet, unknown to me), be a better option to explore?

  • September 12, 2019 at 8:22 am #14324139
    Aaron Troia

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    Hey DB,

    I personally would, and my reasoning is that InDesign generates the toc.html and your toc.ncx files. I’ve done them by hand, but prefer for InDesign to set up all that linking, or at least most of it.

    I also have an InDesign template that already has all my Paragraph and Character styles mapped to a custom CSS stylesheet so I can flow everything in, set the styles and export without much set up.

    Are these personal documents? if so, it might not hurt to try Calibre and at least get a feel for how it works. I’m not sure I would use Calibre for anything besides personal documents though.

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