The CSS panel allows you to add your own CSS, however there are few adjustments that we are likely to need to make. The other panels that you can select include the following: In this panel we can decide how the export process will convert the graphics in your book. If you do want to convert the spread to a landscape view you may want to look at adding a thin line to divide the 2 pages and even consider using the full width of the 2 page spread to add an image. This will mean adding a page at the beginning. Note: If you decide to convert Spread to Landscape, it will be worth re-organising the pages so that the first is a spread. You can also choose to Disable the Spreads so that only one page will show in a portrait format. On the other hand, you may simply base the spreads on your layout (as if for print). You can even join the pages as a landscape form. There are Spread Layout options that will control the way the spread is formed. In the General panel you will need to select the cover image and the table of contents as a Multi Level Navigation from your saved TOC in InDesign. You will already be familiar with the panel that appears when you export the ePUB, only this time the features are limited. I am presuming that you will export from the book panel, but if you are working with a single file, then the procedures are exactly the same. In the fixed-layout format for Apple devices there are 2 types of ‘tables of contents’ you will always have a thumbnail image version, but your table of contents in InDesign will also provide a logical menu item TOC, that will be available in a drop-down menu. If you don’t want this, you need to move it on to the paste board and delete those blank pages. Having had a good look at our InDesign book and files, we only have one matter to address – do we want the table of contents on the page or just as a logical TOC? If the TOC is on the page, then it will be on the page in the ePUB (fixed layout). The screen images in this document are created from InDesign version 11.1. You will need to be using InDesign Creative Cloud. Note: Images can now use the full size of the page, so you can move the images right to the edge of the page. Since this is all about trying to use the same file for these different techniques, we should have anchored images! Images are likely to be anchored in the text, although technically, for the fixed layout ePub you do not need images to be anchored. You will need an InDesign document set up as if for a re-flowable eBook. Note: We have noticed that if images bleed off the page (as you might for print) then you might observe scroll bars in the exported ePub. You should be certain that the master page items display correctly. You can make adjustments to fix widows and orphans. Go through all the pages, and satisfy yourself that each page is how you want it to be. You need to fork this file as a new version. I suggest that you duplicate your InDesign documents and book, because you might (for this fixed-layout edition) be making some destructive changes. Effectively, you are now designing as if for print. Whichever method you use for this output, you need to become aware of the individual pages (how they begin and end, if there are orphans and widows, and what your master page items look like. The instructions for this are very limited, but we should first explain that the fixed-layout ePUB is formed from many XHTML files – one for every single page that you see in the InDesign view. Post editing the CSS is almost impossible, because every single word on the page is positioned with the CSS, so you dare not make any adjustments.All items will be delivered as they appear, including the master page items.You cannot use the Articles panel to order content, or even prevent some objects from exporting.There is no way to include footnotes as popups (they will simply be at the bottom of the page - as in your print version). However, it should be pointed out that the controls for the way certain aspects work in the export process, are limited: InDesign Creative Cloud 2014 introduced the ability to export the ePUB3 as a fixed-format package, and we can use this method to create a perfect acceptable ePUB3. The answer is that you cannot sell and distribute a PDF through the same channels as the ePUB (or Kindle) format eBooks. For those that ask ‘why can’t I deliver a PDF?’. This fixed-layout format can be considered almost the same as an interactive PDF, however, as you will see, the ePUB can have much more interactivity and, you, the designer can control the way the eBook is displayed. The fixed-layout format ePUB3 format provides a way to deliver every single page in your print book laid out just as it was in the print version. Some further Notes on the Fixed Layout ePub.
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