Our recommendation is to stick with the original size of the document: this guarantees the best fidelity to the original layout and also the content will be scaled properly by the reader app or device without losing any quality, since PubCoder imports real text and real assets rendered up at 3x their original size.
In the first case, PubCoder will create a new project page for each page in the InDesign document, in the second case PubCoder will create a new project page for each spread in the InDesign document: this is useful if you want to create a landscape eBook starting from an InDesign document with contents in between facing pages SizeĪllows to control the size of the imported content. The process can be stopped at any stage and will eventually display a report of problems encountered.ĭetailed descriptions for each settings follows. You may be fine with the default settings and just need to click Next to actually start the import process, which will go on without further intervention by the user. Next, PubCoder will present the import settings panel: Our advice is to click Review to open the document in InDesign and fix those issues here, then try to import the file again in PubCoder. This warning will not block PubCoder from importing your InDesign document, but will affect the quality of the import: missing images will not be present or will be imported in low quality, text will not use the correct fonts and so on. Incompatible Fonts: your InDesign documents uses fonts that are not compatible with PubCoder, you’ll learn more about this later.Missing Font files: your InDesign document is using some font that is not installed on your computer nor it can be found in the package.image files) that cannot be found on disk Links to missing resources: your InDesign document is linking to resources (e.g.PubCoder will then launch InDesign and check that everything is OK with the documents, warning if it finds: Important: When importing multiple InDesign file, be sure they use the same page format. You will be asked to select a few files to import: you can add them dropping them on the files area or clicking the + button, then you can adjust their import order dragging them. Start by creating a new project (File → New Project) and choose to Start from InDesign file. Create a new project starting from InDesign layout(s) Text is imported in a second stage: PubCoder will ask InDesign to export the document in EPUB 3 fixed layout format, then PubCoder will scan this document to import text and CSS styles for text formatting, that will be appended to the project’s CSS code.Īt the end of the process, you will have a completely editable PubCoder project, with one (or more) object(s) for each object in the InDesign document. geometric forms that do not have a corresponding object in PubCoder. Some specific images may be rendered for better performance, e.g. PubCoder’s InDesign import works in a totally automated way and you can skip this paragraph safely, but if you’re curious about what’s happening under the hood, here it is.Īt first, PubCoder will connect to Adobe InDesign, and execute scripts to open the document and scan it to copy the various informations about objects and layers positions, and import all linked resources in the InDesign file as assets in PubCoder, when possible. Warning: This functionality requires Adobe InDesign CC 2015 (11.3) or later and an active Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. Writing in non-alphabetical and right-to-left languages.Using Renditions to create multi-language and multi-format contents.
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