【Lynda高精度字幕由CGSUB.COM独家发布】 The ePub format is quickly becoming the file format for eBooks around the world.
You can view ePub files on iPads, Nooks, and most other tablets, as well as on
desktop computers. InDesign can export your document as an
ePub, although if might take a little bit of work to get it looking the way you want.
Let's take a quick look at how this document has been constructed.
Up here on page one, we see the cover is an image in a textframe.
On the next spread we have a title page, and it's made above several different
textframe in this image. The third spread is our chapter opener,
and this is made up of two different text frames.
One that has the chapter number in it, and then one that has the story.
This story threads throughout the document, and we can see that by going to
the next spread. I want to point out, however, that when I
click on one of these images I can see a little anchor icon.
That means this object is an in-line object.
It's fixed in place, so that if the text reflows, the image will flow too.
Alright, let's just go make an EPUB. I'll go to the file menu and then choose export.
InDesign asks me to save this with a name and a location.
And the key is that I need to choose epub from the format popup menu.
Then when I click save, InDesign opens the epub export options dialog box.
And there are a lot of features in here. I'm not going to go into all of them.
And in fact, right now for my first epub. I'm just going to click Okay and see what
we get. InDesign exports that ePub, and it opens
it in Adobe Digital Editions. Now, if you don't have Adobe Digital
Editions, or some other ePub reader on your system, you may have to go to
labs.adobe.com, and download the newest version of Digital Editions onto your system.
I can see here that I have the image. I don't have the name of the book, not
sure what happened there. And then, when I go to the next page,
well, that's when the problems really begin.
The name of the book completely disappeared except for the letter a down here.
And all this other text is out of order. Let's go to the next page.
Well, there's the rest of the name of the book, and there's this image which is out
of order. And then what happened to the words
chapter one? Where do those go?
Well I happen to know that if I scroll all the way to the end of the book, all
the way past all of this stuff, and then go to the very last page.
There it is, Chapter One. Well, that's definitely a mistake.
So, lets go back to InDesign and fix this up.
The thing you have to understand about ePub, is that it's a lot like a Word Document.
It's very linear. It starts at the beginning, ends at the
end, and you have to control what it's going to do in what order.
Indesign, by itself, has no idea what order you want this in.
So, I'm going to go back to the title page by pressing Option+Page Up or
Alt+Page Up a few times. And then I'm going to go to the window
menu, and I'll choose articles. Let's go ahead and move this out of the
way a little bit so we can see everything.
The articles panel is the way that you can be in control of the order in your document.
The first thing you need to do is create a new article, and you can do that by
clicking this little New Article button. Then you give it a name, I'll call this
front matter, I'll click okay. And you can see it added to my articles
panel.now I need to start adding objects to this front matter section.
So I'm going to select all three of these frames by dragging over them with the
selection tool, and I'm just going to drag them into the articles panel.
I'll drag until I see a cursor change and this little bar under the word front
matter, and then I'll let go. Now all these objects show up here.
It's not necessarily in the right order. For example, I need to move the history
of art up, so I simply click it and drag it up.
That looks pretty good. Alright, now let's go to the next spread.
Option page down or Alt page down Now, this is no longer part of my front
matter, so I'm going to create a new section in my articles panel, here.
I'll just call this Chapter 1. Click Okay, and now I need to add these objects.
I'll click on 1, then Shift+Click on the other, and this time instead of dragging
them in, I'll just click on this button here, the little plus icon.
Let's make this taller so we can see it all.
The plus icon is the same thing as dragging it in.
Because this story threads from one frame to the next for the rest of this
document, I don't have to go and add the rest of those frames to my article.
Just this first one. Now I've decided that I don't need that
cover image in my ePub. I'm just going to open the ePub directly
to the title page, so I won't include that here in my Articles panel.
It's really helpful when you make an ePub file, to give your reader some navigation
tools, like a table of contents, and the way you do that is you go to the Layout
menu, and you choose, not Table of Contents, but Table of Contents Styles.
You want to create a table of contents style that looks for the paragraph styles
that you want to put into the navigation. Now I've already done that in this document.
I have two styles here, Contents and Illustrations.
Let's choose Contents. I'll click the Edit button, and you can
see that this is going to look for two different paragraph styles, subtitle and
chapter title. It's going to put any paragraphs that are
tagged with those paragraph styles into the navigation panel in my ePub reader.
We'll see that in just a moment. As you can see, I've already set this up,
so in this case I'm going to click cancel and then I'll click cancel again, and now
let's go and make our ePub again. Choose File export, make sure this is set
up to ePub, I'm going to call it the same thing and click Save.
InDesign asks if I want to replace that one.
Sure I don't need the old one anymore. And that brings up the ePub Exports
dialog box again. Now this time I want to change the
content order. This pop-up menu here from based on page
layout, which kind of means, hey InDesign, you pick an order to the same
as the articles panel. That means it's my order.
Now I also want to choose the table of contents style that I just looked at.
And I'll do that by changing navigation to TOC style and then picking my TOC
style out of here. There's the contents.
Finally, I'm going to go to the advanced pane of this dialog box and I'm going to
tell InDesign to split this document every time it sees a chapter number.
It does that based on the paragraph style.
By splitting the document into chapters, it ensures that the chapter number always
begins on a new page. Alright, now let's click Okay and see
what we've got. It exports to ePub and opens it up in
Digital Editions. Our ePub is now in exactly the right
order, based on the article panel. You can see that it starts with the
title, the rest is in the right order. Let's go on to the next page, and we can
see that it now says chapter one, and then goes right into the chapter.
The great thing about epubs is that they always reflow based on the device, the
font, and even the size. So for example, I can change the size
here to a larger font, and everything reflows.
If I want to jump to a specific section in my ePub, I'll open a navigation panel
from here in the reading menu. You can see that I only exported one
chapter here, so only one thing's showing up.
But I can click on this little triangle to the left, and see all the different
sections inside my chapter. If I click on ancient Greece and Italy,
it jumps right to it in my book. While this brief introduction to ePub
will get you started, there's obviously much more to creating high-quality ePub files.
It's as much an art as a science. If you want to get into making great
quality ePubs and Kindle books, I highly recommend that you watch Anne-Marie
Concepcion's titles on ePubs, here on the online training library.
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