Thread: Export from Indesign so images display well in KP3?
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Old 11-14-2018, 09:12 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
Hmmm.... it sounds as if the epub generated by InDesign works when used on an epub reader. More information would be nice. Was the Amazon format ebook was generated using the Kindle Plugin for Adobe InDesign or was it converted from epub external to InDesign? If external, what was the toolpath?

Looking at one acquaintance's epub stylesheet for her latest book created with Vellum, her Amazon conditionals (@media amzn-kf8 and @media amzn-mobi) seem to take up more than half the lines which suggests that trying to make epub, mobi and azw3 look good from the same stylesheet is a total PITA. Admittedly, now that she has that stylesheet tweaked, she says it beats her old multiple ebooks tactic.
The fixed-layout ePUBs work on iPads being read in iBooks. After that...no. And yes, Vellum uses a monstrous list of media queries, a thousand-plus lines long--and that's for text, not images. Making images work correctly in all environs is a whole other kettle of fish.

We use INDD every day. We do NOT export ePUBs from it. That way lies madness, IMHO. I guess it looks fine, if one's background is paper, and s/he doesn't know coding, but...you do not get a viable ePUB, IMHO, from that.

FWIW.

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