11/25/2023 0 Comments Indesign epub tutorial![]() ![]() Inside the Fixed Layout folder in the OEBPS subfolder, I actually have three HTML documents or XHTML, which is another type of HTML, in addition to the table of contents, the toc. Now let's contrast it with the Fixed Layout. ![]() Under the hood, this is very similar to the HTML export. Now you can see this content looks exactly the same as when we exported the same document directly to HTML. I'm just gonna open that in my web browser. In there I have an untitled HTML document. That's the one without the fxl in the name, and I'm gonna go into the OEBPS subfolder. Now I'm just gonna browse into the Reflowable EPUB folder. This tool will unzip and rezip EPUB files and it's available for both Mac and Windows. If you don't have the StuffIt Expander or similar software installed, you can use a free tool called the eCanCrusher. If I use that to unzip these two files, I then have folders with HTML. What I'm gonna do instead is use a tool I already have on my system called the StuffIt Expander. Now for whatever reason the native unzip capability on the Mac doesn't really know what to do with an EPUB, even if I change the file extension to zip. What I want to show you is that these files are simply just zipped up HTML files. I'm just gonna copy those over to the end folder in the Exercise Files for 02_03. We're in Chapter 3 03_02 in the start folder, and I have the two different EPUBs exported from the alice document. You can follow along if you have the Exercise Files. What I do want to do is take a look at the EPUB files themselves. Now I went over the specific EPUB options in a different video so I'm not gonna rehash those now. In the Export dialog, you're then gonna to choose as Format either EPUB Fixed Layout or EPUB Reflowable. To export EPUB from InDesign, all you have to do is go up to File and choose Export. Even better, InDesign exports EPUB in two different flavors: Reflowable and Fixed Layout, the two different InDesign to HTML approaches that we've been discussing in this course. So if you know HTML, then you can create and edit EPUB. EPUB, at its heart, is HTML with some extra metadata and wrapped up in a zipped package. In this video we're gonna take a brief look at EPUB as it relates to InDesign and HTML. ![]()
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