Building an eBook in ePub format from InDesign

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New and updated for InDesign CS5.5.

This book as based on this WIKI article here and the screencast here. I provide this as an example. I will probably update this sometime, although I did a lot of handcrafting the innards of the ePUB.

InDesign CS5.5 has some significant improvements for making ePUBs. Hopefully this little book will explain the basics.

Download the eBook in ePub format

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Note: You will need the free Adobe Acrobat reader

Posted on 08 Sep 2011 around 10am

Technical Stuff

I started out using Apple's Pages, and - indeed the PDF was quite successful. However, I found Pages to be very unreliable when it comes to the export for ePUB. This may be improved in future versions, but I decided to go for InDesign, since this is what I am talking about in the book!

I have made a few edits to the CSS and XHTML inside the ePUB. For this I used OxygenXML editor.