InDesign help forums

John123 · 11-27-2012, 07:58 AM

Hi all,

First off, please don't bite my head off and say OMG why here!

"Why here?" - trust; the wise among you have helped me enormously over my pain in getting to where I am producing Ebooks on Sigil. For that I thank you all very much.

I am bringing myself squarely into the 21st century by ditching my trusty old typesetting software of 25 years and heading off down the InDesign road. The reason being this software has a hardware dongle which is no longer supported.

Okay, after this boring preamble, my question is: do any of you have any views on the best Forum (like this one), for InDesign queries? Bear in mind I will be back on here asking InDesign/Sigil queries

Many thanks in advance,

John.

theducks · 11-27-2012, 09:15 AM

Well, you could drop down to the 'Suggestions' forum and 'suggest'
1) an in-design forum .
or
2)An 'Other book Design/Edit software' forum.

#2 could be split up as traffic builds.

Only Greenie Moderators can make forum structure decisions.

IMHO For now, ask here if you have post-indesign EDIT questions. Ask in Calibre for post-indesign->conversion issues

DaleDe · 11-27-2012, 06:27 PM

Instead of InDesign a better choice if you are just now purchasing would be framemaker which include RoboHelp. RoboHelp is reported to make clean customized ePub and the latest can create ePub 3 as well.

Most InDesign threads are in the ePub forum. I suspect most users watch both of these forums but ePub is likely to be more on topic and there are already quite a few threads there.

Dale

exaltedwombat · 11-28-2012, 06:31 AM

Direct conversion from InDesign to eBook only work well if you restrict yourself to such a basic subset of InDesign's possibilities that it's hardly worth using InDesign at all! If you're producing books from scratch', there's a lot to be said for using InDesign for the printed version, pouring the raw text directly into Sigil for the eBook.

11-27-2012, 07:58 AM	#1
John123 Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 6666 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Scottish Highlands Device: Samsung Note, Kindle	InDesign help forums Hi all, First off, please don't bite my head off and say OMG why here! "Why here?" - trust; the wise among you have helped me enormously over my pain in getting to where I am producing Ebooks on Sigil. For that I thank you all very much. I am bringing myself squarely into the 21st century by ditching my trusty old typesetting software of 25 years and heading off down the InDesign road. The reason being this software has a hardware dongle which is no longer supported. Okay, after this boring preamble, my question is: do any of you have any views on the best Forum (like this one), for InDesign queries? Bear in mind I will be back on here asking InDesign/Sigil queries Many thanks in advance, John.

11-27-2012, 06:27 PM	#3
DaleDe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,695 Karma: 3644259 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Grass Valley, CA Device: EB 1150, EZ Reader, Literati, iPad 2	Instead of InDesign a better choice if you are just now purchasing would be framemaker which include RoboHelp. RoboHelp is reported to make clean customized ePub and the latest can create ePub 3 as well. Most InDesign threads are in the ePub forum. I suspect most users watch both of these forums but ePub is likely to be more on topic and there are already quite a few threads there. Dale __________________ Dale DePriest http://pages.suddenlink.net/dalede or http://daledepriest.wikispaces.com currently using an EZ Reader or a Literati or my iPad.

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theducks Staff to 4 Cats Posts: 10,707 Karma: 2485850 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The (original) Silicon Valley, USA Device: Galaxy Tab 2,Black Astak PEz, K4NT(now Wifes)	Well, you could drop down to the 'Suggestions' forum and 'suggest' 1) an in-design forum . or 2)An 'Other book Design/Edit software' forum. #2 could be split up as traffic builds. Only Greenie Moderators can make forum structure decisions. IMHO For now, ask here if you have post-indesign EDIT questions. Ask in Calibre for post-indesign->conversion issues __________________ Using: Ubuntu(32 bit):Oneric,Precise and XPpro SP3, W7HP(64)- - Libre Office w/Writer2EPUB

11-28-2012, 06:31 AM	#4
exaltedwombat Addict Posts: 307 Karma: 1489094 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: none	Direct conversion from InDesign to eBook only work well if you restrict yourself to such a basic subset of InDesign's possibilities that it's hardly worth using InDesign at all! If you're producing books from scratch', there's a lot to be said for using InDesign for the printed version, pouring the raw text directly into Sigil for the eBook.


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