Print Book → eBook Conversion • InDesign, Sigil, Pagina, and Kindle Previewer 3

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This video was practice for Part II of my virtual presentation to the Los Angeles User InDesign Group. I show how to take a file meant for print and convert it into a nice-looking eBook, even when dealing with images, title pages, Table of Contents, and custom device navigation. I utilize InDesign primarily, but use Kindle Previewer 3 to simulate the eBook viewing. I use Sigil Epub Editor to manipulate the code, and Pagina's Epub-Checker to make sure I will pass validation.
Program downloads:
Kindle Previewer 3
www.amazon.com/Kindle-Preview...
Sigil EPUB Editor
sigil-ebook.com/sigil/download
Pagina EPUB-Checker
www.pagina.gmbh/produkte/epub...
0:00 - Intro
1:10 - Additional Programs (free)
2:40 - Overview
3:10 - eBook Image Problems
3:50 - Epub Types
►ADDING IMAGES TO EBOOK:
4:50 - Ugly eBook
5:30 - The Grouped and Anchored Image/Caption Method
6:30 - Warning About the Width of Items
7:30 - Warning About the Order of Grouped Items
8:00 - Anchoring the Group
8:25 - Warning About Anchoring to Different Styles
9:50 - Playing with the Export Settings for Better Images
11:00 - The Result
11:48 - The Better Way to Place Images
12:35 - Images Can be Off the Page
13:00 - Make a Paragraph Style for Images
14:59 - Place the Image in the Flow of Text
15:20 - What if Your Image Disappears?
16:10 - Anchored Object Options
17:10 - Adjust the Space Before and After the Image in the Style
17:45 - Adding a Keep Option to the Caption
18:20 - Easy Reflow Image!
19:00 - Exporting Results
19:30 - If you Still Have Issues, Apply a Text Wrap
22:20 - Global Anchored Object Styles
►TABLE OF CONTENTS EDITING
24:30 - The Table of Contents
25:00 - Delete the Print TOC
26:20 - Important TOC Settings
26:40 - SAVE YOUR TOC STYLE
28:00 - Exporting with the Saved TOC
28:35 - If You Can't Find Your Saved TOC Style
►FRONT MATTER
31:00 - Making a Pretty Title Page
32:00 - Export Selection as JPEG
34:00 - Make a Page Break Before the Copyright Page
34:40 - Split Export Tag
35:25 - Paste a Style to Add it to Source Doc
36:10 - Export Settings for Split Tags
►METADATA
37:00 - Metadata
37:45 - Where to Put ISBN
38:20 - Creator
38:40 - The Date
39:40 - The Publisher
►SIGIL
40:59 - Editing the TOC in Sigil Code
41:45 - Let Sigil Clean the Code
42:30 - Where to Edit the TOC
►VALIDATION
43:35 - Validating the eBook in Pagina
Licensed Intro/Outro Music:
Lake Michigan by Staffan Carlén.
Visit our website at:
www.BeckysGraphicDesign.com

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@ralphnusser9426 8 ай бұрын

In the scale of one to ten I gave this tutorial in my InDesign BIBLIOGRAPHY FileMaker database an 11 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍, because you teach the quintessence of your practice experience without blah blah didactically commendable. Of the many KZfaq tutorials I watched you are in the very top group. Highly appreciated are the clickable TOCs of the video. What is missing for me as an InDesign beginner from Switzerland is the possibility to download the tutorial files from e.g. DropBox (tutorial e.g. with a public domain book content; before and after the showed changes; I am convinced that the subscriber count would go up rapidly). Exceptionally well done. (For people as me watching KZfaq on TV the magnification of the menus should happen every time.)

@beckysgraphicdesign 8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for the exceptional kindness!

@illustrationc5096 3 ай бұрын

Aaah, thank you so much for this: unfeasibly helpful. Great, confidently competent presentation.

@beckysgraphicdesign 3 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@VladimirMelo 2 ай бұрын

The best epub tutorial for InDesign I've ever seen. Thanks!

@beckysgraphicdesign 2 ай бұрын

Glad you think so!

@casuldesign9131 Жыл бұрын

This was great! So simple yet perfectly in-depth. A million thank you's!

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Glad you found it helpful!

@casuldesign9131 Жыл бұрын

@@beckysgraphicdesign I am struggling with my image that is anchored to a Chapter title. It keeps jumping to a new page regardless of its dimensions. Is the cause buried somewhere in the "Inline Image" style sheet? Or is it related to the "Chapter Title" style sheet? HELP!

@quohelet4036 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing, amazing content!!!, brilliant, helpful, thanks a lot teacher!!

@WebFanNY Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip at 13:00 ! I'm using it today doing a book with illustrations on every five pages.

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Awesome!

@lucy_wealth6951 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing , this was helpful. 😊

@josuemenjivar618 Жыл бұрын

Excellent tutorial. Learned a lot.

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@RusstafaB Жыл бұрын

Brilliant thank you so much for this presentation

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@thepurpleufo Жыл бұрын

Even though this looks very interesting, I just don't have time to watch it right now...but I know that when I *do* watch it, it's going to be great.

@Oyekezie_Hyacinth_Anayo Жыл бұрын

This video is worth billions. Thank you for sharing this awesome content. Still hoping you make a video on how to convert a music book with images and text to a reflowable Epub without distorted images or words. I look forward to hearing from you. Regards.

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind comment! I have an upcoming video that shows an easy way to add images into reflowable text that will work well for your eBook!

@reginarexrode8578 Жыл бұрын

This was very helpful. I'm starting to do a lot more epubs and couldn't figure out how to get some of the things you discussed to work unitl now. I have to get use to that an epub just isn't going to look as pretty as a printed book. I don't like that everything starts at the top of the page - my printed book has the copyright info and dedication stuff centered within the middle of the page and the chapter openers are started about half way down the page. It bothers me that it doesn't look like that in the epub, but I can get use to it. Thanks.

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

It's honestly surprising that eBooks haven't gained the capability to look prettier, seeing how popular they are-but I guess that's the downfall of being in a format that works for every platform and device, no matter how old it is.

@shleee25 Жыл бұрын

I always refer back to your videos when I'm stuck, they've been SO helpful! Is there a way to add white space on a page, without a page break? Example: moving copyright text down to start in the middle of the page, vs. being at the top.

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Sort of. You can add a page break and then manually go in and add some lines. This creates some singular line breaks. blog.hubspot.com/website/html-line-break#:~:text=Break%20in%20HTML-,To%20do%20a%20line%20break%20in,use%20the%20tag.

@shleee25 Жыл бұрын

@@beckysgraphicdesign Thank you for replying so quickly! I'll try it out :)

@gregmckay6012 9 ай бұрын

For front matter vertical positioning (copyright, title, half title, dedication) I select the particular text frame, then use Object > Text frame options > General > Vertical justification > Align and select as appropriate. You can then tweak it by dragging the top/bottom of your text frame down/up a tad to fine tune it. This is all reflected when exported to ePub and shows your front matter nicely positioned as per your print book.

@BlankaThomas 2 ай бұрын

Hi! Thank you for a great video! I have a question if you have a video that goes in depth about the table of contents and the styles you have made for it? Thank you so much!

@beckysgraphicdesign 2 ай бұрын

I sure do! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aahpqLee0rSwlZ8.htmlsi=ow7CKrXahAPEFUNL

@thegotheditor Жыл бұрын

This was super helpful! Is there any way I can request going over fonts from InDesign for ePUB, especially fonts that transfer into Kindle? I've seen other Kindle ebooks display fancy font chapter headers, but mine never transfer, no matter what I do. I'd love to learn that. If you offer paid coaching for that, too, I'd love to discuss that.

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words! We don't offer ebook coaching at the moment-just these tutorial videos! And the reasons your custom fonts don't display on a Kindle device is because only a few fonts EXIST on a Kindle device. Tahoma, Georgia, Arial, Cambria, etc. Some devices don't support ANY type of script font, unless you embed it into the ebook manually, which can be a long process. The ebook does its best to swap out your custom font for the next closest one available.

@JoannaKimber 4 ай бұрын

Your tutorials are so helpful! I hope you see this and respond, I can't seem to find any answers online and I'm tired of messing around with different settings. No matter what I choose or how I place my image, the image size is tiny in kindle previewer. I change the object export settings and the general export settings and nothing happens. This happens with my text flourishes as well but those I don't mind being smaller. I have text message graphics in my novel and they can't be tiny so I really need some help. (I really don't understand how Adobe managed to make this one simple thing so hard)

@beckysgraphicdesign 4 ай бұрын

What is the ACTUAL pixel size of that linked image. Is it at least 1000 pixels wide? Is the placed image (and its frame) about the same width of the page? Do you have CSS assigned as "Relative to Text Flow" in your Export Settings? Are you using ePub 3.0 instead of 2.0?

@BlankaThomas 2 ай бұрын

Hi! Thank you for replying to comment! It helped! I do have another question. We are publishing an e-book with veterans stories and some of the text in the body has to be italicized, however it does not save the italicized text into the pub document. Do you know how to fix that?

@beckysgraphicdesign Ай бұрын

Check to make sure the text is not "overridden" in InDesign. Also, make sure the "italic" is being applied via a Character Style. This creates a tag in the code, which is how Bold and Italic is accomplished in HTML.

@RusstafaB Жыл бұрын

Becky not sure if you know the answer to this. I bring an image in on a layer I call "images". It is all good then if I anchor the image to the previous text paragraph to keep it in place. The image then flips from the "images layer onto the "text" layer, which is frustrating. Have you experienced this once again thanks for your excellent video tutorials.

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Hm, no, I haven't. I suppose you can't lock either of the layers, either, cause they have to interact with one another. The reason this happens is because when you anchor something into the text, it is now coded as an object within that block of HTML, becoming part of the parent.

@gloriaerickson 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for this great tutorial! Where is the "first" video? My issue is that the TOC does not show up in the actual EPUB when viewed in the Kindle Previewer with clickable links. Is it something in the paragraph style settings? Can you direct me to a video that refers to this issue, please? Thanks!

@beckysgraphicdesign 2 ай бұрын

This is a video where I talk about TOCs in InDesign: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aahpqLee0rSwlZ8.html And this video talks about TOCs in eBooks at 18:16: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7GFapRplcuwk2w.html

@gloriaerickson 2 ай бұрын

@@beckysgraphicdesign Thank you!!

@erwachtewelt Жыл бұрын

Hey Kayla :) Absolutely amazing content, thank you so much for this!! I have one little question where it seems i don't find the solution, even though i watched multiple Videos on your channel. After exporting my Indesign File into "reflowable EPUB" and reviewing it in "Kindle Reviewer 3" it has a different formatting in regards of the Poems, that i've put in my novel. The normal Text of the story after my poems should begin in a new Paragraph but for some reason it begins in a new Line. I tried different things but didn't come to the solution so far - it always begins as if it would be a simple Line-break. Do you have any idea how to fix this? Greetings from Germany Yannic :)

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Have you tried looking at your paragraph style in the "Space before/after" area, and telling it to "Ignore Spaces between paragraphs using the same style"?

@erwachtewelt Жыл бұрын

@@beckysgraphicdesign Yes, this option is already set on "Ignore", hm... To describe it a bit different: After my poems end, i pressed 2 times "Enter" , so that i have an empty Line in-between my Poem and the upcoming text - i think you call this "New Paragraph", right? (I am new to Indesign and have it all on German) - The Indesign File looks perfect, but the exported epub looks like as if i just have pressed "1 time Enter" and there is no empty Line between the Poem and the upcoming text.

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Ohhh! Yes, I explain how to do this in this section of this video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fNJdZpRmx5nck5c.html 11:38 - How to Add a Manual Page Break

@erwachtewelt Жыл бұрын

@@beckysgraphicdesign Ohh thank you SO much!! How could I miss that? 😅 Anyway, thank you so much again - I truly love the content you provide here in KZfaq - simply Gold. Greetings from Germany Yannic :)

@kremisikresi Жыл бұрын

Wonderful crash course about exporting to epub. It seems still difficult to export to print and epub by the same ID document right? Just a little suggestion, as I am Italian you should pronounce PAGINA with the accent on the first A and not on the last I. So: PÀGINA 😀

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Haha, thanks for the pronunciation! I like to say things the right way. And yes, typically, I don't try to export my print file and eBook file from the same InDesign document. I make a duplicate of my print file and make modifications to it.

@kremisikresi Жыл бұрын

@@beckysgraphicdesign There is a Publisher here in Italy, Mulino, that's publishing books starting from the same ID pagination. That "machine" costs around 200-300 thousands euros but it's not perfect for every book. I agree with you, better to have a copy and be free to mess everything up for the ePub version :-D. Last consideration: I'm really surprised to see you have only 2000 subscriptions and less than a 1000 views, but I'm more and more thinking this is the price of quality and expertise. Less is better on YT!

@beckysgraphicdesign Жыл бұрын

Wow! That is a lot of money!! And thank you for the kind words!!

@epiphoney 8 ай бұрын

Is there any reason to go to epub 3 vs epub 2 these days, aside from accessibility? Assuming you're not doing anything fancy like a new interactive feature.

@beckysgraphicdesign 8 ай бұрын

I find ePub 3 handles imagery and CSS better, however ePub 2 has better reach (AKA, more platforms will accept it). In general, most platforms will do an auto conversion on a 3 to downgrade to a 2, except on Draft2Digital.

@epiphoney 8 ай бұрын

@@beckysgraphicdesignI wonder if Apple Books has any fancy epub 3 ebooks with fixed layouts or javascript/interactive or audio, etc... Yep finding some.

@beckysgraphicdesign 8 ай бұрын

Yes, Apple Books generally will accept my fancy CSS and actually display it.