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Were you actually considering this as an authorial workflow? Or did I misunderstand you? Hitch |
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It's all wishful thinking though, because no known author has yet finalized the text before wanting to fuss over format :-) |
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Yeah. It was an idealised workflow for a situation where an author has completed the text, and the book will be produced both printed and as eBook. Not for real life!
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Where I work we finalize the book for print with all editorial changes and proofing applied (yeah, right), and only then we simplify it for epub export. From there on we maintain both versions in InDesign for reprints and updates to the digital version. We have a very rapid indd -> epub workflow, making this less cumbersome than it sounds
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01-24-2013, 09:36 AM | #51 |
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Interesting. How do you rapidly convert from indd to epub? Do you find Export: epub useful for anything but the simplest designs? Can it cope with illustrations - I always found this a problem, though I haven't yet tried the latest versipon of InDesign?
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After exporting I import the epub to calibre, and use Modify Epub to embed metadata and cover. I have written a simple cmd script to replace the font with a non-mangled version if applicable (embedded fonts are needed for some books with special characters). I also replace the css with a hand-crafted one as the css generated by InDesign is ridiculous. Finally I run a set of replaces in Sigil, which among other things split the chapters into separate files and remove inline styling of img tags. Sigil 0.6 vastly simplifies the whole process. When the InDesign version is ready it takes me a couple of minutes to generate a new epub version, and this is also suitable for Kindle conversion. The end result is not perfect, but IMHO better than most commercially available books. If you're interested I can see if I find the time to post the necessary files and our internal instructions, it would have to be a google-translated version. I should touch them up a little anyway, they tend to be ignored as I am basically the whole "ebook department" at our company. |
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Sure, I might be able to do it tomorrow or monday. About Sigil: I use it to do some replaces, split the document into one file per chapter, and generate the toc.ncx. It doesn't really add any complexity, and it's easier and more flexible than writing a custom script
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Sorry, didn't mean Sigil. Should have said Calibre. It's an excellent eBook organizer, but I find little use for its coding functions since embracing Sigil.
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It's very handy for storing and embedding metadata with the mentioned plugin, especially when I re-generate an epub for corrections, but there's no reason to use it for conversion. |
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Hitch, do you happen to have (or can you make) a link to an ePub that you've put together? I'd be rather interested in seeing your formatting/code.
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Me or my firm? if you just want the firm (we'll have to go back for one of my own), do you have a genre preference? Or will a Jackie Collins do you? H Last edited by Hitch; 01-24-2013 at 05:09 PM. Reason: Asked further question. |
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