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\nAnother novel, another excursion into e-book conversions.  But this time, it’s with all new software.  InDesign has bumped up to CS5, and of course Sigil and Calibre have both had numerous updates since I used them the last time.  The process has gone much smoother.<\/p>\n

Step 1, make minor formatting changes in InDesign to remove some excess that’s standard in printed books, but’s not needed in e-books.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Step 2, Export to EPUB.  It went very smoothly.  I experimented with the options and I had the best luck with the ones shown in these images.  Much of the cleanup I had to do before with Sigil and Calibre weren’t necessary.  The table of contents was perfect, and I didn’t need to use Sigil to carve up the chapters like I had before.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Step 3, clean up the errors.  I did say “Much of the cleanup”.  InDesign converts the formatting styles into CSS styles as part of the EPUB conversion, and it made a curious  decision to convert all my italics into UPPERCASE.  Using Sigil, it was easy to remove a couple of offending lines in the CSS and everything was like it was supposed to be.  I had also used the InDesign function to convert URL’s in the text into functional hyperlinks, and it had mangled the job in a couple of places.  When I used epubcheck, those bad links were flagged, but Sigil’s editor made it easy to fix.<\/p>\n

InDesign’s conversion has always had problems in positioning images, often moving them several pages from where they originally appeared, but again Sigil’s editor makes it easy to move them back.<\/p>\n

Finally, after previewing the book on my iPad, I used Calibre to convert the ePub version into a Mobi version, which I then previewed by dragging into Kindle for the Mac.<\/p>\n

These versions are essentially the e-book versions of the ARC for Follow That Mouse.  When publication time rolls around, I may have to do it all over again if correctable errors are discovered in the ARC.  But really, it was a much smoother process than the last book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another novel, another excursion into e-book conversions.  But this time, it’s with all new software.  InDesign has bumped up to CS5, and of course Sigil and Calibre have both had numerous updates since I used them the last time.  The process has gone much smoother. Step 1, make minor formatting changes in InDesign to remove… Continue reading InDesign CS5 ePub Export<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[160,203,129,115,24],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Screenshot2010-08-06at2.35.37PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t90x-x4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2054,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions\/2054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrymelton.net\/2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}