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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Olivia. If you have InDesign CS5 or 5.5 you can use the “Split Column” paragraph formatting command. If you have an earlier version, I'm afraid there's no easy way to do it other than using multiple text frames with different numbers of columns.
Yes you can import paragraph styles. In the target document, go to the Paragraph Styles panel, open the panel menu, and choose Import Styles.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI think you mean you have a Kindle? PDFs are ridiculously hard to read on them. I would try seeing if Calibre could possibly convert it to MOBI.
Which Kindle do you have?
October 14, 2011 at 12:45 pm in reply to: Help creating title/cover page in inDesign for epub #60770Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberJongware! Love the new picture! But I miss the InDesignSecrets coffee cup :D
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI haven't worked in CS4 for a while, but I believe if you add space before and after the paragraph to which the image is anchored (I'm assuming the images are the only item in their paragraphs) then you'll have space before and after the images in the EPUB.
Not sure about the centering …
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberMake sure you're patched to the latest version of CS5 (check for updates).
I can't replicate your problem over here, sorry … I assume you've checked that you don't have a hidden layer with a text wrapped object that's still in effect?
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September 28, 2011 at 8:55 am in reply to: CS5.5 ePub export uses low-res image proxies in some cases #60629Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI used the default settings of 150 ppi and Image > Preserve Appearance from Layout.
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberDid you download and read through the Kindle Publisher Guidelines pdf? You can get it on the KDP site at this very bookmarkable page (has all Amazon's free guides and utilities for publishing Kindle books):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/featu…..1000234621
Your question is answered in there.
Basically, you're supposed to add a “Start” entry in the final Guide section of the content.opf file (the “brains” of the epub, the file with the metadata, manifest, etc.) that tells the Kindle file where to begin… that is, what page should it open to by default, if you've never opened the book before. They recommend you specify the first page of real content, like the first page of Chapter 1, as opposed to, say, the copyright page. There is also a default menu item in a Kindle device and in Kindle software called Go To > Beginning, and the page that you set as the Start is also that Beginning page.
Here's an example from one of my Kindle projects, where we wanted the start of the book to be the Preface, which was its own HTML file named Preface.html:
<guide>
<reference href=”cover.html” type=”cover” title=”Cover”/>
<reference type=”toc” title=”toc” href=”toc.html” />
<reference type=”start” title=”Preface” href=”Preface.html” /></guide>
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September 24, 2011 at 5:36 am in reply to: CS5.5 ePub export uses low-res image proxies in some cases #60602Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI'm sorry, but if you're seeing very different results in your images, then there must be something else going on — the images you export in an EPUB are not affected by the preview/proxy quality you choose in InDesign. I(And honestly, I can't tell from your screenshot which one is supposed to be worse or better than the other, though it might just be my old eyeballs… heh.)
I can't duplicate your results. I placed the same high quality image 3 times into 3 separate files, and exported each to EPUB with the same image settings and same scaling applied. Before I exported, I changed the Display Performance preview for each one, so EPUB1 used Typical, EPUB2 used High Quality, and EPUB3 used Fast (just a solid gray preview).
All images looked the same in my epub reader, and after extracting them from the epubs, each one was the exact same size (15.1 MB).
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September 16, 2011 at 8:24 am in reply to: Epub Export: Why deselect Preserving Image Appearance from Layout #60542Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberGood catch! I knew about the (bug?) behavior of ID exporting multiple copies of the same graphic, but didn't know that that was the fix. I'll investigate too …
BUT it seems like a huge price to pay for that … to have all your images come in to the epub uncropped and unscaled.
I think there's a script or plugin that will automatically make a copy of all linked graphics, resized/scaled to match what's in InDesign, and then relink. Perhaps running that script before exporting to EPUB with a disabled Preserve Appearance would be the best of both worlds?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberWow that is news to me … the bit about the Create PDF bookmarks being the problem child. Thanks for the info Adam!
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberAre you on a Mac or Windows?
If on a Mac, in CS4 were you using the Application Frame? How about the Application bar, did you use that? When you put your Tools panel in a single row, and you said it “appeared in a row centered at the top” … the top of what? (above doc window title bars but below the control panel? Above the control panel? etc.)
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi there,
I think you can do what you ask with cross-references, as long as there is some text by each image (like a figure number or caption) that is not a cross-reference back to the text.
So in the line of body text elsewhere, you'd type in something like “Wonder Woman's picture is on page ” but right after the word “page,” you choose File > Hyperlinks & Cross-References > Insert Cross-Reference. From the X-Ref dialog box you'd locate the caption text or figure number of the picture you want to reference (see the on-line help if this dialog box is baffling), and select the “Page Number” option from the X-Ref Format menu. InDesign inserts the page number of the page where the targetted caption text or figure number appears.
To go in the opposite direction, you do the same. Remember that x-refs link to paragraph locations, not specific lines of text or words. So if you insert a x-ref in a picture caption like “For Wonder Woman's bio, see page ” and then do the same as above — target the paragraph with WW's bio and select the Page Number format — in the caption, ID will insert the page number where the paragraph containing her bio begins. (Even if the paragraph spans 3 pages and her name isn't mentioned till end.)
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberSo … “I need to look into it” means when your workload lets up, I'm guessing :-(
Thanks for the quick reply, anyway. I could've sworn it *didn't* do that in previous iterations, but obviously I was wrong. Hmm.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberWhy wouldn't you use Acrobat's own Compare PDFs menu command/routine?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberIt's actually pretty simple, and I often embed images in an InDesign file if it's going to be moving around alot.
Just shift-click to select all the embedded images in the Links panel, and then choose Unembed Link from the Links panel menu.
You'll get a dialog box asking if you want to link to the original files or have ID create (extract and link to) the files. Choose the option where you have InDesign extract the files. Then it asks you to choose a folder to extract them to. Choose one, and then let 'er rip.
Then end! Works like a charm.
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