A couple weeks ago I had a video crew hanging out in my office shooting a couple segments for AdobeTV. Well, the videos are now complete and posted.
It looks like they’ve posted five of my new segments on new features for ePub using InDesign CS 5.5 — I’m pretty happy with them, I hope you enjoy them.
Here are the links:
- Controlling Order of Content Export from InDesign CS5.5 to Epub Without Changing Your Layout
- Using Object Export Options to Customize How Objects and Images Export to ePub
- New Export Options for ePub in InDesign CS5.5
- Adding Audio and Video Content to ePub from InDesign
- Creating Covers And Title Pages for ePub in InDesign CS5.5
Colin
Thanks
Great movies thanks very much.
That handsome devil makes it look so easy! Thanks so much…I’ll let folks know these are posted!
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What a beautiful office in Seattle!
Thanks Claudio! When it’s not raining here it can be very beautiful, and distracting.
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Wishing someone would make a video or “how-to” page about how to anchor objects. For two days, I’ve been trying to convert a magazine cover to ePub format and every time, it comes out as the image on one page, the text on the next page.
The best I can figure out is – anchor the objects. To what? How do I assure the text from the cover stays ON the image for the magazine cover? I’m about to pull my hair out… I bought InDesign for dummies this weekend and I must be dumber than I thought because I still can’t make heads or tails of it…
Nice videos, too. I watched them all…
Hey Nancy!
Don’t pull your hair out over this!
I think there are two things to clear up on this: anchored objects and covers.
Anchored objects are how you control where graphics or content sits with respect to reflowing, text content. As the surrounding text reflows the anchored content will move too.
A cover is likely different, you probably want to combine text and graphics in a much more controlled and static way that does not change. My approach is to making a cover using CS5.5: create your design using text and graphics; select all the elements and group the; add the group to the article panel; with the group selected, choose Object> Object Export Options, and set the group to rasterize. — now your cover design will be “static.”
Hope that helps!
Hi. Great tutorials! I would like to put an audio file on å page an play it by the click of a button on the same page. I can not find out how to do that. Appreciate any advice.
Hey Jan;
The DPS tools released in January added two new actions for buttons, one is to control a sound. So with that update you should be able to place an mp3 file on your page (it may be invisible, but I make sure it touches the page) and then build a button. In the Button panel, you can add an Action (plus sign) and choose Sound from the menu. Once you do this, you’ll be able to control which sound and whether the button will play, pause, stop, or resume.
Give it a shot, I hope this helps.
Colin