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Ken Jones
MemberPlease try out the free trial version of CircularFLO from http://www.circularflo.com
CircularFLO is our commercial software to easily create fixed layout KF8 and EPUB3 from InDesign files or print PDFs. Used by many top publishers and self publishers alike.
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Ken Jones
Circular SoftwareMemberHi Jim
The key word here is ‘reflowable’. If you do mean that you want the EPUB to be reflowable then the page size is irrelevant as the page is not converted, only the content. And with reflowable probably not all the content and certainly not the page design (no full bleed images, no text over images, no rotations, no transparency) and you will have very little control over the fonts.
If you want to convert any set of print PDFs to searchable fixed layout EPUB3 and a KF8 for Amazon too that exactly looks like the original I recommend you try a free trial of our product CircularFLO from CircularFLO.com
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Ken Jones
Circular SoftwareMemberHi Matt
As I understand it fonts can only be specified by the publisher when using the fixed layout EPUB3 standard.
The only other option for reflowable EPUB3 would be to convert the hebrew text to graphics.Ken Jones
Circular Software
http://www.circularflo.comOctober 21, 2015 at 1:28 am in reply to: IBooks not opening EPUB after unzipping and rezipping #78870MemberHi Jordan
You seem to be introducing an error when you include the cover and indeed are pointing to a cover file ‘resource’ which is not included in the EPUB package. Rather than trying to do this by hand coding it may be easier to just choose the cover from within InDesign using the General options in the EPUB Export Options?
Tip: Make sure you don’t just ZIP the ebook if you have have needed to open it up. Use free tools instead.
https://www.circularflo.com/troubleshooting/#unzipping_and_zipping_epubsIf you are still having problems I can take a quick look if you share the EPUB file. Contact me on twitter via @CircularKen
Ken Jones
DirectorCircularFLO – make beautiful interactive ebooks without coding
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“The CircularFLO workflow is clever and provides features and controls that aren’t found elsewhere.” – MacUserMemberHi Jordan
If you are looking for InDesign or PDF conversion to fixed layout KF8 for Amazon devices then please check out our software CircularFLO at https://circularflo.com/
Ken Jones
Circular SoftwareMemberHi Carrie
Either the PDFs exported from iBooks Author or the interactive PDFs you mention can be placed in to InDesign and a fixed layout EPUB then generated.
CircularFLO has tools to help you do this and to make sure that the live text in the PDFs remains searchable in the final fixed layout EPUB3. https://www.circularflo.com/instructions/#pdf_tools
MemberHi Tim
InDesign applies font obfuscation and so the fonts will only work inside an EPUB reader that support this obfuscation.
Readium and iBooks both support the font obfuscation method used and so the fonts will work, the browser does not and so these fonts can’t be used.CircularFLO from Circular Software https://circularflo.com/ offers the choice to switch off the font obfuscation when using live text as this is required for some EPUB and other ebook formats readers not least Amazon KF8.
Hope this helps
KenMemberFree trial available for all Mac InDesign users of InDesign CS6 or later – https://www.circularflo.com/download/
MemberYou need to add in audio tracks, mark each word in turn, accurately work out the timings of every word and then write this into an extra xml file and also make amendments in code to make the words actually highlight.
The good news is that CircularFLO has solved this and there is now a way to create read aloud fixed layout EPUBs directly from InDesign CS6 or later using our unique tools and with no coding required. More info here https://www.circularflo.com/instructions/#read_aloud_tools
MemberPlease check out circularflo.com to see how we have solved this problem
MemberHi Tim
Sounds like a lengthy process! Actually there is no need to change typefaces for our PDF solution as we can use embedded text for search and display a high quality graphic to the reader without embedding a font.
MemberHi Tim
The tools we have give an easy and quick way to get PDFs converted to searchable Fixed Layout EPUB3 and Amazon KF8.
Attempting to convert your PDFs into InDesign documents and then exporting out to EPUB will be a more lengthy approach, it will be harder to do, you may well not get an exact conversion and you also won’t get the Amazon KF8 output. So, yes, I would recommend our method!
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KenMemberHi Janis
ID references are not allowed to start with a number so IDs such as “15745.png” are causing these errors.
<item id=”15745.png” href=”image/15745.png” media-type=”image/png” />
A simple fix here would be to add a letter in front of the image name to change the ID to e.g. “i15745.png”.
BTW I see you are adding read aloud to your EPUB… FYI my company’s software CircularFLO works with InDesign on the Mac to allow you to add read aloud highlighting without the need for any coding. See more at https://www.circularflo.com/instructions/#read_aloud_tools – it would also never cause an ID error such as this :)
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KenMemberAgreed although I was trying to avoid the unzipping and finding the OPF and finding the lines of code etc…
Janis – More info on this sort of thing including links to some neat free zipping and unzipping tools here https://www.circularflo.com/troubleshooting/#unzipping_and_zipping_epubs
MemberHi Janis
People do sometimes get these problems with direct EPUB exports from InDesign. It most likely means an ‘illegal character’ is being used in the name of an image somewhere. If you’d care to post the EPUB on Dropbox or similar I can let you know very easily. BTW the (93,72) in the error message mean line 93, character 72 is the exact place that the error occurs so if you ever wanted to delve into the code you do know exactly where to look… but as I say I can offer to have a quick look and tell you.
Ken Jones
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Circular Software LimitedCircularFLO – make beautiful interactive ebooks without coding
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