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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberGustavo, you can change the formatting of all the text in all the stories by using Find/Change (in the Edit menu). Be sure to choose “Document” as the scope in that dialog box, instead of “Selection” or “Story”
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberDale I’m having problems picturing the issue, and how controlling portrait vs. landscape would solve it. What do you mean by “pages duplicating on each side”?
But essentially what David said is correct. A reflowable epub by nature will reflow and can’t be prevented from reflowing if the user rotates the screen. It is possible to add media queries to the code to change the size of images when/if the epub is opened on a specific device, but that’s about it. And that’s quite complicated, not supported across the board, and can’t be done in InDesign, only by editing the EPUB.
What are you proofing on? Which Android reader? Are you proofing there because the majority of your users will be using that reader?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHere’s what I entered in my reply there, for people following the thread here:
If your ebook doesn’t share the same width to height ratio of the iPad (which is 4 to 3), then you’ll see that letterbox effect. This often happens because users are converting print books to fixed-layout epubs. The print books were designed to standard book sizes or custom ones, for that matter, but no one considered having to fill up the screen real estate for a mobile device.
To get the ebook to fill the screen, you’d need to check its settings in File > Document Setup in InDesign, and change its aspect ratio to 4:3 for the iPad if you want it to fill the screen when a single page is viewed in landscape mode (e.g. 8″ wide by 6″ tall). You’d need to half the width for facing pages (as shown in your screen shot) — 4″ wide by 6″ tall in this example — so the facing pages would be 8″ wide by 6″ tall.
If you’re designing an ebook from scratch in InDesign, then you’d start with the target aspect ratio for your page sizes from the get go.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Janis, I’ll look for your screenshots on the InDesign epub forum at Adobe’s site. I’m not sure what you’re seeing that’s not working (and ditto in my lynda.com vid … do you remember the name of the individual movie where you saw that?
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberThe cross-refs should just work. However they can be “fragile” (prone to error) in epub as well as pdf.
Are you working on a book file (using the Book panel)?
Have you tried roundtripping to IDML?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI’m pretty sure you have to move the ButtonLibrary.indl file out of the application folder (Adobe InDesign > Presets > Button Library) and onto the desktop or some other folder in your Home folder. Edit it, then move it back.
Or, copy/paste it and rename it elsewhere, but then it wouldn’t open by default from the Buttons panel fly-out.
As a test I did the copy/paste routine and it worked fine, the lock was gone and I could add my own buttons.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI’m pretty sure you have to move the ButtonLibrary.indl file out of the application folder (Adobe InDesign > Presets > Button Library) and onto the desktop or some other folder in your Home folder. Edit it, then move it back.
Or, copy/paste it and rename it elsewhere, but then it wouldn’t open by default from the Buttons panel fly-out.
As a test I did the copy/paste routine and it worked fine, the lock was gone and I could add my own buttons.
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