![]() ![]() They're at the bottom of a tall mountain of learnin'. Books is books.) So when someone who isn't even advanced enough to use styles in Word starts seeking help, of the shortest and quickest kind. One is that some vast number of newcomers really are beginners in every way - people who decided to "write a book" and then, discovering all the hurdles in that, were lured to "e-books" because they've read or heard that those are much easier. There are, in my view, two things that drive the dismal level of "help" in the e-book/EPUB world. (Perhaps I should name/market it a little more clearly, though.) And as there's already plenty of info on getting to a journeyman level with ID, Word, and HTML, there's not much need to duplicate that info. To try and be a real book for beginners would probably make it two volumes. Ditto for HTML knowledge let's not even get started on how to write and edit. To back up into actual InDesign and Word techniques and processes, even a little, would double it in length. it's a book for designers who want professional results, a topic on which it is absurdly difficult to get reliable guidance. (It also assumes you know how to write a book.) Everything else is pretty much from scratch. It assumes reasonable mastery of Indesign (or Word), and a grasp of HTML/CSS. The guide actually is a book for beginners - beginners or novices at EPUB and Kindle. Oh, I fully understand what 'beginners' need to know - perhaps all too well. Īnd, of course, I and some other very knowledgeable folks are always right here. Besides my guide (of course), I am writing a continuing series of articles on ID-to-EPUB topics - just wrapping up a major one today - that can be found at. InDesign makes EPUB creation tons easier than older methods and approaches, and with some guidance on the nuances of that process, you should find very few limitations on what you can do (to the limits of the standard and technology, at least). Learning from the standards docs themselves is the somewhat harder road, but at least you won't get muddled and misled about Absolute Truths that haven't been anything of the kind for a decade. well, should be more aware of their limitations. At best, most of it is outdated at worst, it's overrun by one-trick 'experts' who. ![]() Īs you might have begun to grasp, I have a very low opinion of the bulk of the e-book/EPUB 'expertise' out there on the web. You can find it and much support information at. It's quite dense but not difficult to follow: the actual EPUB standard is the best 'book' there is. See also every argument by amateurs about how Adobe stuff is "too expensive." ) It's the amateur and office-worker tools that tend to be "free" or "cheap" and then ring in licensing issues for things like commercial reproduction. Creating stuff, on a commercial basis, is what they're for. (Which is all as it should be: InDesign and the rest of the suite are top-level professional tools. If you're doing Hollywood productions or international digital magazines, there are some caveats and sub-clauses that might come into play, but in general, at the freelance and small agency level: if you create it, it's yours. ![]() What you can't do is give away any part of the software (you can't give someone Acrobat DC to view and print files, for example - not that that's doable anyway), or the stock material in and of itself, or the fonts. The only areas that have some further restrictions are use of Adobe Fonts and stock images, and when those are fully embedded in PDF, EPUB or print form, they are also licensed for any purpose you put them to. As long as you have any license to use the software at all, anything you produce with it is your property, to sell, give away or distribute as you choose.
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