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Originally Posted by Elizkcampbell
I have been using Adobe IndDesign CS4 to create my ebooks. I save multiple files into a .indb (book) file, and export to .epub and to .mobi (via the kindle plugin).
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It is not a good idea to use InDesign for e-book creation and CS4 version is particularly bad.
InDesign was built to do printed page fixed layout and that is something it does really well. E-books have totally different needs and none of excellent InDesign features - such as balancing words in line so you avoid rivers, widows, orphans, too many hyphenated words, or placing pictures in text - are utilized when doing export to an e-book format. E-book formats export, *especially* in CS4 is just an afterthought. I have tried that and I was very, very disappointed. I ended up getting "naked" text from author, backporting last-minute edits (done ONLY in InDesign file and NOT "master" file in MSWord ... Sigh ...) and formatting the book in a tool that is actually built for e-book creation.
Sigil is a good tool for creating e-pubs. There commercial tool available - one that I have tried is called Jutoh. Jutoh works on Windows, Mac, Linux and FreeBSD.
Even saving the file in OpenOffice.org Writer (Libre office writter) otf format and converting it in Calibre does MUCH better job than export from InDesign.