Creating Ebooks With Indesign

If you ve designed an ebook that s heavy with graphics in a beautiful layout chances are you d like to maintain its appearance.

Creating ebooks with indesign. Simplify the process and turn your publishing dream into a reality. Choose file new book. Save chapters or sections as separate indesign files to make collaborative editing easier and speed up your workflow.

In the window that opens set the intent to digital publishing or web if your indesign version doesn t have dp available. This session is designed to show you how to properly and efficiently get the best possible ebooks out of. Software wise ebook creation is still a moving target one of the problems in giving.

Deselect facing pages to create a single page layout. Indesign has powerful features tailor made for e book and e magazine projects. Indesign 2 0 enhancing creativity indesign 1 0 1 5 the foundation 1999 2000 2002 2003 2005 indesign cs4 greater productivity 2008 indesign cs5 re imagining for digital 2010 indesign cs5 5 new digital workflows 2011 indesign cs3 more creativity and.

Let s start by creating a new indesign document for our ebook redesign. Why you should be using ebooks for your business guess what guys ebooks are here to stay. In this first part we ll look at creating an ebook with indesign cc.

If you re working on a long book with a number of chapters or sub sections you can set up your indesign document as a book file file new book. Creating ebooks with indesign thursday 1 00 pm 2 00 pm did you export your clean print file to epub and were surprised not pleasantly by the results. And with a book file you can easily manage these documents.

A book file is a collection of documents usually chapters grouped together. In this three part series on ebook production we are going to take a broad look at three ways ebooks are produced. There are a number of advantages to creating a book file rather than simply creating your book as one large indesign document.