I’ll look into scaling as a last resort.

Again, thank you for the help. Much appreciated!

Images do not scale in epubs by default out of InDesign. You can tweak the HTML and CSS to make them scale, but it’s a pretty big pain.

I do have a question for you. I’ve created character styles for all the chapter titles, but for some reason, when I view the document in Adobe Digital Editions, it’s showing up in a generic font and not the specific font I’ve designated in the character styles. I’ve even created a paragraph style to see if that would help.

I also tried to export the chapter titles as a jpeg and place it back in the document – which works, but it seems when it’s viewed in ADE and you change the text size of the chapter, that jpeg chapter title remain the same size. So, if I go this route and make it into a jpeg, how can I make it scalable?

Any input would be much appreciated. I’m at a loss.

And yes, I’m working on add’l epub topics, including fixed layout epubs, for release in the near future. :D

Re the items you’re exporting as images, I honestly don’t know why they look bad in ADE. Did it come out as an actual image? (Can you find it in the EPUB after cracking it open, and previewing the image?) As I mentioned in the video series, ADE is kind of like a lowest common denominator and you can’t rely on it for final proofing. But it should show images as images.

But an even bigger problem is taking a nicely formatted page in InDesign, grouping it, and exporting it as an object so it maintains its spacing, rules, and so forth. The text in the ePUB file appears with tiny, broken, gray text. This is in Digital Editions. A friend with an iPad says the text looks fine on the iPad. What is going on? How can I be sure the text is going to be readable? (The file validates, if that means anything.)

Thanks.

I work for a childrens library book publishers and we produce PDF “ebook” at present, sold through our website alongside printed books. Since our books rely on design, photography and illustration I was reading with interest about Apple’s Fixed-layout format – a kind of middle ground between PDF’s and text based epub.

I’d liked to see a future lynda.com title on that subject. Also, if epub’s are essentially mini websites, why does Adobe’s Dreamweaver not the default tool for their creation….a question for Adobe I suppose?

The course has been a great help. My husband and I have just about finished. We’ve produced a wonderful novel in epub format but we can’t determine from the training how to go about converting a children’s picture book into an epub. Can you advise?

Thanks