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Originally Posted by Notjohn
>inDesign is way too much being designed for print media, though understandable if you are designing for print media and want ereader output too.
I spend a lot of time on the Kindle forums, and one of the recurring plaints is from people who have used InDesign and as a result made a mess of the e-book output. Previously I have used Word and Open Office (OO seems to do a better job of pagination and exporting to PDF) to make my paperbacks. Should I investigate InDesign? Is it primarily a word processor or a publisher's tool?
(I apologize for hijacking the thread! When I had to do something similar, I went back to the html and started over again, in part so as not to have twenty style sheets in a twenty-chapter book. This seemed a very quick fix.)
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nj:
We have and use INDD, but never for a book that isn't going to print. The headaches with exporting various styles, etc., are endless. I would never--never--abandon any word-processing program's output for INDD's. It is far simpler and easier to convert Word or OO or LO or Wordperfect or Atlantis' output to an ePUB than IDD's. Period. INDD is not a "word processor," by any means; you import (essentially) word-processed output to it and use it as a layout program. It's simply Pagemaker with a crapload of features on steroids.
Hitch