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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
"Perfectly fine" isn't the description I've heard from people trying to create ePub files with them. Recent point releases have supposedly improved ePub support, but I haven't used CS5 and can't say from experience....
And from what I've heard, ePub isn't one size fits all: you are at the mercy of the ePub viewer in the device, so you may need to do tweaking for best results....
Ideally, publishers should store things as XML and use XSLT to handle much of the conversion to other formats....
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CS5 has come a long way in streamlining the workflow to produce EPUBs.
As to EPUB viewers which are not compliant..., you can hardly blame EPUB or InDesign for it.
And I don't think you can achieve complex designs with XML.
But seriously, if the publishers were so stymied by EPUB, then why not just output perfect PDFs from the InDesign (or QuarkXPress) files? Then they can flood the market with PDFs, and the manufacturers will quickly respond with readers which can accommodate the format.