Adobe InDesign CC Conversion to ePub 1 Day - London
Key Course Details:
Level:
Introduction
Duration:
1
Day - 10am to 5pm
Price:
£295 + vat
Find out how to get your documents onto Kindles, iPads, and other devices as you join us to learn about the ePub digital-publishing format. Pick up some great tips and get ready to appeal to a wider digital audience.
We will help you learn about the ePub specification, including how to examine and put together an ePub package of your own. We will show you how to apply consistent styling to text, create an eye-catching front cover, and publish the final product ready for anyone with a tablet or eReader to read.
Find out how to get your documents onto Kindles, iPads, and other devices as you join us to learn about the ePub digital-publishing format. Pick up some great tips and get ready to appeal to a wider digital audience.
We will help you learn about the ePub specification, including how to examine and put together an ePub package of your own. We will show you how to apply consistent styling to text, create an eye-catching front cover, and publish the final product ready for anyone with a tablet or eReader to read.
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InDesign Conversion to ePub 1 Day
Course Details
This 1-day Introduction course will enhance your existing knowledge of Adobe InDesign CC by focusing on ePub, which is the digital-publishing format used to produce content for a wide variety of eReaders such as Kindle, iPad, iPhone, Sony Reader, Nook, and many more. We will show you how to take your existing layouts and publish them for these devices. With our help, you will learn how InDesign makes the publishing process straightforward, even if you have never used ePub before.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand the ePub specification
- Explore an ePub package
- Examine XHTML and CSS
- Control section breaks and image behaviour
- Apply paragraph and character styles
- Produce a front cover
- Use the Articles panel
- Convert to .mobi (Kindle) and other formats
Our goal is to help you understand and implement the techniques necessary to convert your existing and new layouts to ePub format.
Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites:
This course is intended for graphic designers, creative professionals, print professionals, publishers, pre-press professionals, and marketing communications professionals.
You will need basic experience in using InDesign. Ideally, you will have taken our Adobe InDesign CC Introduction 2 Day course. -
Full Course Outline
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
ePub Overview- Examining the ePub specification (3.0)
- Examples of existing ePub documents
- Software and hardware solutions
- What works and what doesn't
- How to open the package (Mac and PC)
- Structure of content
- XHTML pages
- CSS definitions
- Software in the marketplace
- Understanding document flow
- Ways to overcome document flow issues
- Creating a front cover – options available
- Anchoring content inside the document flow
- Options for document and article flow
- Grouping elements
- Adding elements to articles panel
- Keeping content together
- Overview of paragraph styles
- Overview of character styles
- Using Find/Change to overcome widowed styles
- Defining measurements
- Examine suggested image sizes
- Full page images
- Controlling behaviour of images
- Using Live Preflight
- Creating a custom profile
- Exporting your profile
- Importing a profile
Creating a Table of Contents (TOC)- Defining document structure
- Creating a TOC style
- Generating a TOC
- Updating a TOCFonts
- Issues surrounding fonts
- Embedded or defaulting
- Export options for fonts
- Adding documents into a book
- Rearranging document order
- Synchronise styles
- Controlling chapter layout order
- Document Metadata
- Cover
- Ordering
- Formatting options
- Image preservation (and overrides)
- Control control
- CSS options
- Viewing options
- Display in Adobe Digital Editions (ADE)
- Options for Windows
- Options for Mac
- Expand and compress (.zip)
- Opening ePub XHTML files
- Opening ePub CSS files
- Making edits
- Validating your ePub
- Convert to .mobi for Kindle
- Distribute
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Location Details
This course is provided at the XChange Training London training centre based at:
5 St John’s Lane
Clerkenwell
London
EC1M 4BHSt John’s Lane is located in the heart of Clerkenwell close to the junction of Farringdon and Clerkenwell Road. Farringdon tube & train station is just a few minutes away and the training centre can also be accessed from Chancery Lane and Barbican tubes in about 10 minutes. There is also easy direct access by bus from Waterloo (243) and West End (55) with nearby stops.
Daily course times run between 10am and 4:30pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.
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InDesign Conversion to ePub 1 Day - Upcoming London Course Dates
12 Apr - 12 Apr £295 + vat 07 Jun - 07 Jun £295 + vat 02 Aug - 02 Aug £295 + vat 04 Oct - 04 Oct £295 + vat 29 Nov - 29 Nov £295 + vat -
Client Reviews
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