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Originally Posted by Notjohn
I see that the basic Castro book ($13.49 OMG!) is dated 2010. Is that what you recommend?
There's also a mini-guide From InDesign CS 5.5 to EPUB and Kindle @ $9.99 dated 2011, which does not seem much more current.
I often see plaints from InDesign users on the KDP forums and would love to have more helpful advice for them than to tell them to stop using it!
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Yes, for those folks who want to learn INDD-->EPUB. It's somewhat dated, and some of the styling tips/tricks are not needed now, BUT, in terms of fundamentals (as in, "what's an OPF?"), it's very good. I recommend it along with her updated guide.
As far as INDD goes, yes, I've seen your comments, and I've replied a few times. We use INDD inhouse, ourselves. I would not use it for any title that isn't going to be made into print--that's crazy talk, in my opinion. But for any book that's going to be both, yes. You can learn to be adequately disciplined, and careful, in the use and deployment of INDD, so as to have nominal "fixing" of the auto-generated ePUB at the end of the print process. It's not perfect--far from it--but it's better than doing the layout twice, effectively.
This poor guy, with the portfolio--he's apparently (I saw this after I posted my response) is simply trying to send out what is effectively a resume. He's not planning on using this on an ongoing basis. Trying to do 5 pages of "fixed-format," from INDD, as your first eBook project, with ~70MB of images...man. I wouldn't wish that on someone.
Hitch