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• • July 29, 2011 at 4:00 pm #60176
    Marty Safir

    Member

    In case you hadn't heard… the updated training now is available on lynda.com. I know what I'm doing this weekend. :-)

    More than any other resource, Anne Marie's previous ID to ePub training helped me slog through the process of publishing my first eBook. Looking forward to this one.

    Marty

  • August 1, 2011 at 12:25 pm #60185
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

    Member

    Thank you Smarty Guy! :D

    Let me know what you think. There's a few good free sample movies over there, too.

    https://www.lynda.com/InDesign-…..258-2.html

    AM

  • August 16, 2011 at 9:34 am #60286
    anishbala

    Participant

    Hi AM

    Gone through the videos, unfortunately couldnt find frame formatting to epub. Im working on a design layout and require my two column format indesign to be exported to epub as a 2 column. Tried frame column, split para, but nothing works. Any help?

  • August 16, 2011 at 12:00 pm #60287
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    @anishbala: One of the terrible truths about epub is that just because you want your page to appear in a particular way doesn't mean you can achieve it. I don't think epub supports columns at this time. That's one of the many (many!) things people are looking forward to in epub3.

  • August 16, 2011 at 1:22 pm #60288
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

    Member

    What David said. EPUB does not support 2-col text formatting. Do you want it to? How readable will the text in your 2 columns be when someone's reading the book on an iPhone?

    EPUB 3 spec should be able to support 2-col text but the same design considerations would need to be made.

    In the meantime you can create a 2-col table, but remember that some ereaders choke when they need to break a row between page views.

    Why does it need to be 2-col? I'm just curious. What's the content? Or is it that the author/publisher whatever wants the same layout for epub as for print/PDF?

    AM

  • August 17, 2011 at 2:42 am #60298
    anishbala

    Participant

    thanks AM you got the point. Yes, i'm talking about 3pub 3.0 format.

    I've seen the walrus videos on rich-content epubs and was quite impressed with their multi column layout. I'm developing a portfolio for my company, thought it will be nice to adopt the same technology through ID.

    I've people who can write CSS3 codes manually to get the multi column format, but its tedious. Whenever i do a change in my ID file and re-export it to epub i need to edit the css file and code it again and its frustrating to do this task everytime.

    Your reply on sharing the technique will be greatly appreciated.

  • August 17, 2011 at 8:55 am #60307
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

    Member

    Hi Anish, I replied on the other forum thread you started here:

    https://creativepro.com/for…..n-epub-3-0

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