Creating an iBook (ePUB) for the iPad with InDesign CS5
by admin on Jul.30, 2010, under iriver
in this video I’ll show you the steps you need to take to create an iBook for the iPad or ePUB for just about any other ebook reader out there using the NEW InDesign CS5! You can actually download this iBook for FREE at terrywhite.com/techblog/25ipadtips.zip
July 30th, 2010 on 3:56 am
Great video… does the epub you made pass the epub checker?
July 30th, 2010 on 3:58 am
This is awesome, any advice for doing the same on an iPhone 4? As Im doing something like this for a class project.
Thanks Terry!
July 30th, 2010 on 4:52 am
Thanks a lot for this video, very usefull !
July 30th, 2010 on 5:13 am
tks a lot, terry! it really helped us!
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July 30th, 2010 on 6:46 am
thx a lot. I’ll try it right away with my turkish cuisine book….
July 30th, 2010 on 7:37 am
Great Video! When I save the file as epub it does not keep the Text Layout… Not breaks no nothing… Any tipps what I made wrong?
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July 30th, 2010 on 9:29 am
Excellent! Thank you Terry for an excellent video AND for saving it in 720HD format. This is perfect! I want to ask you, how do you upload ePUB books to the Apple Store. Is this hard to do?
July 30th, 2010 on 9:35 am
@charlesajking Considering the title of the video is; “Creating an iBook (ePUB) for the iPad with InDesign CS5″, Terry is exactly right. If the video were an indepth discussion of the ePub specs and analysis of what is supported on various devices then your comment would make sense.
July 30th, 2010 on 9:46 am
“Don’t worry about the fonts that you use”
Bzzt – wrong!
ePub is perfectly capable of embedding fonts and bringing them over with the book, EXCEPT on the iPad, which fails to implement the epub spec fully. In fact you show how the epub carries references to the right fonts when you open your example in Adobe Digital Editions. Solution – people need to buy a better epub reader or wait for Apple to get their act together.
Pity it doesn’t export the right meta element so iTunes finds the cover.
July 30th, 2010 on 10:30 am
awesome vid keep up the great work thanks
July 30th, 2010 on 10:55 am
Terry, there is a built-in Amazon url shortener that you could use instead of 3rd-party ones. It’s on the right side of the product page. It produces 5 character “amzn” links
Bitly, Tinyurl, etc are nice, but there is no guarantee how long those links will stay up. Several of these services have gone belly up and it’s a waste of time to go and manually update the links in the future.
Thanks for the video.
July 30th, 2010 on 11:08 am
That was a great tutorial. Very informative. And yeah, that export thing was really fast. Sometimes it’s funny how you think that something’s broken if it’s THAT fast.
Great stuff. Keep it up.
July 30th, 2010 on 11:12 am
@persuasive26 Thanks!
July 30th, 2010 on 12:01 pm
@Searching2Fonts Yep!, created on the MBP, although the video was recorded on my Mac Pro which had the mic already setup.
July 30th, 2010 on 12:54 pm
did u create this on your new macbook pro?
July 30th, 2010 on 1:24 pm
great video m8!!!
July 30th, 2010 on 2:23 pm
This is hot man. Can’t wait to buy CS5.
July 30th, 2010 on 2:35 pm
@xROBERTxDAVISx yes, but there are some new features in CS5 that make it easier.
July 30th, 2010 on 3:26 pm
can you do this in cs4?