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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberstrange! Since you can only apply DRM via selling it in the Apple store and turning on that option (or equiv for Kindle store), or if you have one of the uber expensive Adobe License Server subscriptions, my guess is that they’re doing something wrong. ;-D Could be as simple as opening a previous EPUB downloaded from the iBookstore and confusing it with yours?
I would ask them to email you the epub that’s giving them that message and see if you replicate the problem.
OR it could be they’re trying to preview it via BookProofer, which won’t work with EPUBs containing encrypted fonts. In that case it does throw an alert about not being able to deal with encrypted EPUBs.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberJust watched the screenshot .. oh! I got it backwards. Adobe made the App Frame off by default to satisfy scaredy-pants Macs users. Turn on the App Frame with no docs open, maximize the window, and restart the Mac to make it the default.
I know, I know … I agree with everything you said. What’s the podcast?
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Ray, looking at the screencast now.
The Application Frame should be off by default (though I prefer it on, as described here: https://creativepro.com/learn-love-application-frame.php)
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMembercurious if rebuilding prefs fixed your problem?
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberNo, you can’t. The SWF/PDF kinds of effects you’d use in a browser are different beasts than the Folio Overlays you use in an app magazine.
One solution might be to convert the mag to HTML5 with layout, using the In5 plugin:
https://ajarproductions.com/pages/products/in5/That resulting HTML file can be made into an app, I think, with one of the Adobe Edge products.
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHmm. I think I suggested that you rasterize a text frame only OCCASIONALLY, like if you need to retain a type treatment for a headline that’s not supported in EPUBs (that is, that you can’t do in HTML/CSS).
Otherwise, all text should be exported as live text.
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI believe they are, Peter! David’s plug-in he developed with them, PatternMaker, is still alive and kicking. David will probably chime in here shortly.
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberYay! good to know. Thanks Bob!
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMember“right church, wrong pew” … never heard that before. I like it! :-)
To remain on topic, remember you can also just use Control-Enter to call up Quick Apply, then type “no b” and that should select the command. Hit Enter again to apply.
Of course if you use No Break constantly, then I think a keyboard shortcut would be faster.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberMake sure Illustrator is in CMYK mode (not RGB mode) before copying the swatches.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI don’t think you’re going to be able to specify a rounded corner paper size in ID. Usually that’s done by overlying a die-line guide in a top layer, and working closely with your printer’s pre-press dept. to make sure you’re doing it right for their needs.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi David,
assuming you’re using CS5.5 or later, then it makes little difference if you’re using a Book or a single INDD file. CS5.5 and later have easy to use options (set a paragraph style to cause a split) to break up the epub into chapters so they start at the top of the page.
EPUBs with audio and video can viewed on an iPad using iBooks; other eReaders are a crapshoot and need testing. I do show how to embed a/v in my CS6 > EPUB title at lynda.com.
Other options you might want to consider are PDF ebooks (which you can sell from your site, as we do here), or use iBooks Author, which is only available as authoring software on Macs, and whose books can only be viewed in iBooks for iPads. But it’s pretty cool!
Is your book already written and laid out in InDesign? or Word? elsewhere?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberCheryl, so happy that helped!
I think you should contact Kris at Rorohiko w/your ePubCrawler questions, as I’m not knowledgeable enough with it to help you, sorry!
Have you watched his videos on it? He has about 6 of them on his site, explaining how to use it and how to manipulate the .ini file to get what you want, etc.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberCheryl, 2 things. First, a fix, I think, for your scripts issue; then, a better solution that came out since I recorded the video.
The fix: Make sure you’re putting the scripts into an epub folder in your Applications folder. They should be in the path specified in the alert message: ?/Applications/Adobe InDesign Cs5.5/Scripts/Scripts Panel/epub/extractpages.jsx?”
Do not put them into the same-named Scripts/Scripts Panel folder in your User folder, as Bob suggest. (Normally a good solution Bob!)
The better solution: If that still doesn’t work, then I urge you to ignore all that and just use Rorohiko’s free “ePubCrawler” script.
https://www.rorohiko.com/wordpress/manuals/fixed-layout-epub-assistant-in-indesign-epubcrawler/They wrote the CSSGeometry.jsx one I showed in the lynda.com video. After it went live, I continued working with them, and ePubCrawler is the latest evolution of that script.
It’s essentially a “make fixed layout epub” solution from any InDesign file. It’s what I use now. When I get the opportunity to update that video, I’ll be scuttling mention of all those workarounds for ID files and instead I’ll show ePubCrawler as well as a couple new commercial plug-ins (Flipick and CircularFlo for now).
I reviewed ePubCrawler and showed before/after of a sample kid’s book in an issue of InDesign Magazine last fall.
Hope that helps!
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Tushar, hope you don’t mind I moved your reply from the thread about tables and epubs to this new topic.
Boy I completely forgot that option “place from URL” was there! It would make an excellent Obscure Feature of the Week for our podcast. :D
I’m fairly certain that that options relies on Flash, and so is only supported in SWFs and PDFs you export from InDesign.
You’ll need to download the video you want and place them normally, as linked files.
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