Lynda - Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB (Updated Jul 03, 2014) | 1.96GB

Duration: 3h 18m | Video: AVC (.mp4) 960x540 15fps | Audio: AAC 48KHz 1ch

Genre: eLearning | Level: Intermediate | Language: English

Join author Anne-Marie Concepción, as she shows how to create fixed-width EPUBs to sell in the iBookstore. The course explores the fixed-layout EPUB format and files, providing a quick-start EPUB template to download, examine, and use to build simple fixed-layout files right away. The course explains how to get content from PDFs and InDesign files into an EPUB, demonstrates editing for fixed-layout settings, and covers modifying CSS to position content and proofing an EPUB on the iPad.

Topics include:

* Comparing fixed-layout and flowing EPUBs

* Replacing placeholders in the fixed-layout template

* Extracting content from PDFs with Adobe Acrobat Pro and Reader

* Using free scripts to streamline fixed-layout production

* Extracting text and its formatting from InDesign layouts

* Exporting InDesign layouts to single-page HTML files

* Adding viewport and orientation instructions

* Embedding your own fonts

* Creating faux text wraps around background images

* Validating the EPUB