Creating eBooks with Adobe InDesign CC

Anurag Wahi | Senior Engineering Manager (awahi@adobe.com)

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Todays presentation

Introduction
The history of EPUB within InDesign
Principles that have guided the InDesign team
EPUB capabilities within InDesign
Looking ahead to the future of EPUB creation within InDesign
Questions

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The history of EPUB within InDesign

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Adobe InDesign - Revolutionizing the creation of print and now digital content.

InDesign 1.0/1.5 InDesign 2.0 InDesign CS InDesign CS2 InDesign CS3

Improving a Breadth of More creativity and
The Foundation Enhancing Creativity Greater Productivity
Creative Workflows Productivity

19992000 2002 2003 2005 2007

InDesign CS4 InDesign CS5 InDesign CS5.5 InDesign CS6 InDesign CC

Greater Productivity Re-imagining For Digital New Digital Workflows Transforming content Creative Cloud
for Digital

2008 2010 2011 2012 2013

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Continuing to build on several years of EPUB creation

InDesign CS3 InDesign CS4 InDesign CS5 InDesign CS5.5 InDesign CS6 InDesign CC

2007 2008 2010 2011 2012 2013

Complete rewrite
Initial support More than 30
Export for of EPUB export First EPUB3
for EPUB export new and
Digital Editions to now be native support
via script enhanced EPUB
feature of features
InDesign

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Principles that have guided the
InDesign team

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The three principles that have guided the team

Enable people to create the

most beautiful EPUB possible

Reduce the number of reasons

Make it simple to create that someone might have to crack
EPUB from InDesign the EPUB after export

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EPUB capabilities within InDesign

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EPUB capabilities support for reflowable EPUB2 and EPUB3

Direct export from InDesign

to EPUB2 or EPUB3
standard

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EPUB capabilities easily control content and order of your EPUB

The Articles panel decides what

content you want in your EPUB and
the order of that content

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 EPUB capabilities transforming from print to EPUB

Map your print styles to

EPUB equivalents

Use your own external CSS that map to

classes defined in your print styles

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EPUB capabilities seamlessly map InDesign constructs to HTML

Nested Styles mapped InDesigns bullets and numbers correctly

correctly to HTML detected and appropriately marked up

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 EPUB capabilities applying metadata and accessibility

Apply alt text either to

Easily apply metadata as
individual objects or as part
part of the export process
of an object style

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EPUB capabilities productivity features

Edit all your style export tag Use Object Styles to quickly apply and
mappings at one place manage object export settings across
your document

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The future

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The future of EPUB export from InDesign what do we talk about with the
team?

More Production Controls

Fixed Layout Read aloud

Accessibility Richer HTML

Interactivity and Animation

Metadata SVG

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Learning more

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Useful resources download the trial of InDesign CC

https://creative.adobe.com/products/indesign

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Useful resources learn more about InDesign EPUB export for free on
Adobe TV

http://tv.adobe.com/videos/epub/?p=3

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Useful resources learn more about whats new in InDesign CC

http://epubsecrets.com/downloads/EPUB_Changes_CS6_To_CC.pdf

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 Questions?



awahi@adobe.com

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