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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberFWIW I'm not seeing any diff in CS4 vs. 5.5 as far as saving PDFs is concerned. I think you might be having an operating system issue (it thinks a file is open when it's not?)
The behavior in InDesign is the same as always. If you export a PDF and tell InDesign to open it in Acrobat right after, it'll do that. If a (closed) PDF of the same name exists in the same location, you'll get a prompt from ID asking if it's okay to overwrite it before it creates and shows the PDF.
If the PDF is open, ID will churn for a while (if I recall correctly) and then give you an error alert because it can't overwrite an open file. In other words it doesn't bother asking if it's okay to overwrite, because if you said yes, it wouldn't be able to anyway.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI think I answered this elsewhere, but I'll put it here for the benefit of lurkers. There were no page numbers added to the EPUB file itself, it just that the poster was looking at the EPUB in Adobe Digital Editions which shows page numbers for some dumb reason. (They fixed that in the latest preview release, ADE 1.8, available on labs.adobe.com)
August 13, 2011 at 8:34 am in reply to: How can I preview Indesign files I'm about to open (or in windows)? #60270Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberAnother thought, if you're using CS5 or 5.5, is to boot up InDesign and then use the (new) MiniBridge panel to browse and preview InDesign files before opening them, which you can do by double-clicking there. I have a MiniBridge custom workspace that has the panel sized very large so it's easier to move around in. MiniBridge will show previews of InDesign files; at least the first page for older versions, and the first two (or more, depending on what you set in Prefs) for CS5 and 5.5 files.
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August 13, 2011 at 8:31 am in reply to: How can I preview Indesign files I'm about to open (or in windows)? #60269Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberBridge is VERY useful, *especially* in Windows. Think of it as an alternative to Windows Explorer, which it is. You can use Bridge to navigate to files/folders, create new folders, move stuff around, run searches, save Favorites, and in all that while never touch a CS file. Works perfectly fine with all your files on your hard drive.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Michael, I'm glad you posted here.
It may very well be a hyphenation problem. Can you post a couple screenshots of what some of them look like in the Previewer?
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August 1, 2011 at 12:39 pm in reply to: Pasting data into tables: Does it work in CS5 and CS5.5? #60187Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberAnd I said:
I’m not having that problem here. Here’s a silent movie:
https://j.mp/pPtnLnMaybe it’s the version? I’m on 7.5.0 on a Mac running Snow Leopard.
Any other people interested in testing this out? Thanks
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberThank 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
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Derek, it's interesting looking, and could be a viable option if someone doesn't have InDesign and they're writing from scratch.
With InDesign, you'd create an EPUB and then convert the EPUB to MOBI with the free KindlePreviewer app or with Calibre, or even just uploading the EPUB to the Kindle Publishing portal yourself, where they do the conversion,
There are just a couple tweaks you might need to do to the EPUB, and you need to keep in mind that the Kindle does not support all the CSS that EPUB readers like iBooks and the Nook do (for example, “floats” … drop caps and other wraps).
You could also write your book in Word, save it as HTML from there, do some clean up, then have Calibre convert it to a MOBI.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi Jenna!
You should get to know Stephen Tiano, an independent book designer who writes a great blog about his field:
https://tianobookdesign.com/index.html … I've been a fan for years.
He recently wrote a post there that you'd love:
Making Books: Design and Production, How I Started
Stephen has a rich Twitter feed, too: https://twitter.com/#!/stephentiano
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberha! yeah. Are we having fun yet?
Don't bother with the plug-in w/5.5, it won't work. (I mean, it works, but the resulting MOBI is usually broken.) And it does not pay any attention to 5.5-only features like the Article panel; because there's no place to tell it to *use* the article panel.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI thought you were using the Export to Kindle plug-in that Amazon offers for free. In CS4 and CS5, it creates the TOC for you. In CS5.5 it doesn't.
So how are you converting your EPUB to Kindle format? You just say you look at it in the Kindle Reader. The Kindle Reader can't open EPUBs as far as I know. Are you using the Kindle Previewer (which runs KindleGen, their conversion program, on the fly) to convert the EPUB?
Are you testing your EPUB in various readers, and validating it, before you convert it to Kindle format?
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June 11, 2011 at 3:13 pm in reply to: InDesign CS5.5 to EPUB, Kindle, and iPad by Ann-Marie Concepcion #59835Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI don't have a date, I just know it'll be out this summer. But I wouldn't wait for my lynda.com training to come out before you move to CS5.5! Also, James Fritz has an excellent lynda.com video title New Features in InDesign CS5.5 and covers a lot of the epub features there.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberI would go for PDF for both. A single PDF file, or (in the second example, if one is too unwieldly), one PDF for the case filings, and one or two more PDFs for ancillary/what next type of material. Definitely not a Portfolio. (What would a Flash interface add to this? And why make it difficult for people who don't have Reader 9 or X to access it?)
Set up both with easily understood bookmarks and set it to open with the bookmarks panel showing. You can add a custom cover and/or section pages with links and buttons to print, search, navigate, a linked list of exhibits, videos, etc.
I don't see the point of an ePub for this project…and unless the documents already exist as a colllection of linked XHTML files with a CSS file common to all, I'm not sure why you'd think it'd be easier than assembling a PDF. You can easily combine all sorts of different files into a single PDF.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHi there StirlingEditor (what an unusual first name! hee) …
You can use the Format fields in Find/Change to search for formatted and text and replace it with “Basic Paragraph” and “None” (character style). Leave the actual text find/change fields empty, and just do a search for formatting.
If you don't see the Format fields in Find/Change, click the More Info button in the dialog box.
You should double-check the Kindle formatting guidelines to make sure it supports small caps and all caps and the best way to format the html and css to get it to work.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberIf you use the free utility Sigil, you can tell it where to break chapters, and it will build the toc.ncx for you (the file that creates the navigational TOC).
Or you could add a small bit of easily-findable text in a paragraph above each chapter opener figure and assign a style to it. Use that style to build the nav TOC, then edit both the TOC.ncx file (to add proper chapter names) and the XTHML files (to remove the findable text and replace with nothing, perhaps a space).
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