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Slide Title Book This Old Renovating Print Assets For Digital Publishing Mike Rankin

The Topic ▶ InDesign-centered workfmow to re-purpose legacy print content for digital publishing

The Problems ▶ Page Layout is rooted in PostScript ▶ Digital publishing is rooted in HTML ▶ Creating structure where there was none ▶ Coping with fragmentation MIND THE GAP

Can I Ride In Your Starship?

InDesign CS 5.5 New Features ▶ Re-engineered EPUB export ▶ Articles panel: Goodbye Structure “Pain” ▶ Object Export Options ▶ Export Tagging options for styles ▶ Drag and drop anchored items ▶ Metadata, TOCs, tables, footnotes

It’s As Simple As… 123 ▶ collect & evaluate assets ▶ clean up text ▶ validate ▶ standardize assets ▶ remove transformations ▶ preview ▶ make design & editorial ▶ apply styles ▶ EPUB editing* decisions ▶ structure content ▶ version/conversion ▶ license assets for digital ▶ adjust/optimize images ▶ delivery ▶ develop CSS ▶ create TOCs ▶ rename assets ▶ create new covers ▶ add metadata ▶ set up export tags ▶ export *magic happens here

Collect and Evaluate Assets ▶ Identify print artifacts ▶ Evaluate complex page elements References to page #s, color, location ▶ Evaluate list numbering Special efgects ▶ Evaluate footnotes and endnotes Bleeds ▶ Evaluate index and TOC options ▶ Redesign large elements ▶ Confjrm or acquire proper licensing for fonts Page spans and images (or fjnd alternatives) Tables ▶ Identify font dependencies Special glyphs Mathematical expressions

Standardize Assets ▶ Quark XPress ▶ “Vintage” InDesign docs ▶ PDF ▶ paper fdfdfdIbusant hition et optatium faciendis essim denis doluptius. Suntia dolorestium fugitat iatium ad magnisse volutat usanis sitasitis et a am,Iquo volest eaque esedicit autatem. Et plitisquidus et quibus ipsum quis est, sed quae eatur sam ulluptaerum, tempore offjcatur aliquatio. Axim dicipieturem faccuptatiam debitatum remBo. Cates iliqui testint. Ex et aut maximusapero quia doluptius quia conse pro iunda volectas eos dusam fugitat ionsequ amusda sum vernatemque inisquam idis doluptatem niscien ihitatemque doloreperem fugitis qui adis do- lorio odis venienit fugia imi, excestiuri offjcil latque volorem est, sus, eum fugia con restiist, offjcit velles rem iur, incid qui aut estis num ditiam ratquunt re occum ipsant qui dolorumquis dolleseque in conseque non cus vellutati duciani hilloritas as et quibust emquist accum que alit ant dolo id moloreri suntibus eriam nimoluptatem volupid eum abo. Udit adignis simpor acest vellat. Quibeat inienis eum ipsam, nonserspitas debis am evenda voloribus exerovid ea pari rernatempos is dus eum, ut quodionsed experepe nes auta vellab ium necte venima qui coreptatius, quo magnimo

Quark XPress ▶ Quark 9 has Export to EPUB ▶ Markzware Q2ID ▶ Markzware PageZephyr

Legacy InDesign ▶ Batch convert via script ▶ Conversion issues: refmow, missing 3rd party content, styles changed, anchored item spacing

Paper or Plastic, er, PDF ▶ Adobe Acrobat Scan to PDF OCR Text Recognition ▶ Recosofu PDF2ID ▶ Markzware PDF2InDesign (beta)

Rename Assets ▶ Letters, numbers, underscores, and hyphens ▶ No spaces @#$%^*! @#$%^*! ▶ Include InDesign fjle, Photoshop/Illustrator It didn’t work fjles, video fjles, audio fjles, CSS fjles, etc. ▶ Tomaxxi’s Link Rename Script curse_word curse_words yeah_it_did

Clean-up Text ▶ Eliminate whitespace characters that won’t be exported. Use styling instead for spacing. ▶ Eliminate forced line breaks ( aka sofu returns), discretionary hyphens, and other undesirables. ▶ Good: Find/Change ▶ Better: Find/Change by List ▶ Best: Automatication’s Multi-Find/Change

Apply Styling ▶ Tie cleaner the styling, the cleaner the code ▶ Remove or replace local overrides via 2 great scripts Show Local Formatting Prep Text ▶ Clear transformations ▶ Styles are used for TOCs and separating fjles ▶ Nested Styles and GREP styles export from 5.5

Structure Content ▶ Articles Panel ▶ Object Export Options ▶ Creating Order ▶ Drag and drop to anchor items

Create Navigational TOC ▶ Navigational TOCs come from TOC styles ▶ Nested entries via Levels in TOC style

Create New Covers ▶ Redesign ▶ Simplify

Add Metadata ▶ File Info ▶ Adobe Bridge ▶ Tomaxxi’s XMP script ▶ EPUB Export dialog box

Export Tags for Styles ▶ Every paragraph and character style can be mapped to an HTML tag and/or class ▶ Tie cure for “classitis”

EPUB Export Options: General ▶ New in CS5.5 highlighted

EPUB Export Options: Image ▶ New in CS5.5 highlighted

EPUB Export Options: Contents ▶ New in CS5.5 highlighted

Validation ▶ Online validation: http://validator.idpf.org/ ▶ Epubcheck ▶ Scripts at Mobileread.com ▶ EPUB-Checker widget ▶ Oxygen

Conversion to Mobi ▶ Calibre ▶ Kindlegen ▶ Kindle Previewer

Previewing ▶ Sofu proofjng in sofuware ▶ Hard proofjng on hardware ▶ Proof on each intended delivery device

EPUB Editing ▶ Oxygen Author ▶ BBEdit, ▶ Notepad++ for Win ▶ Text Wrangler + Springy, BetterZip for Mac EPUB zip/unzip scripts from Mobilereads ▶ Dreamweaver

Declare Victory

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Additional Resources ▶ Twitter #eprdctn ▶ Liz Castro’s blog and books http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/ ▶ Anne-Marie Concepcion’s Lynda.com videos ▶ EPUBSecrets.com ▶ eBook Ninjas Podcast

Links Editing Notepad++ (win only) Phone Disk free $20 OxygenXML Author http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ http://www.macroplant.com/phonedisk/ $350 Springy http://www.oxygenxml.com/epub.html $20 Validation BBEdit http://www.springyarchiver.com/ $50 EPUB Validator BetterZIP http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/ http://validator.idpf.org/application/validate $20 Coda http://macitbetter.com/ EPUBCheck $99 http://code.google.com/p/epubcheck/ http://www.panic.com/coda/ epubcheck script Previewing TextWrangler http://www.mobileread.mobi/forums/ free Adobe Digital Editions showthread.php?t=55576 http://www.barebones.com/products/ http://www.adobe.com/products/ textwrangler/ epubchecker widget digitaleditions/ http://www.pagina-online.de/sofuware/epub- Sigil Kindle Previewer checker/#c1067 free http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature. http://code.google.com/p/sigil/ FlightCrew html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000234621 http://code.google.com/p/fmightcrew/ EPUBFixer (win only) http://code.google.com/p/epubfjxer/

Metadata Blogs Legacy Content Extraction Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Liz Castro Markzware Page Zephyr $99 (limited time) http://dublincore.org/documents/2004/12/20/ http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/ http://pagezephyr.com/ dces/ EPUB Secrets Markzware Q2ID http://epubsecrets.com/ $199 Formatting Guides InDesign Secrets http://markzware.com/products/q2id/ http://indesignsecrets.com Amazon Kindle Publishing Guideline Recosofu PDF2ID kindlegen.s3.amazonaws.com/ $399 AmazonKindlePublishingGuidelines.pdf http://www.recosofu.com/products/pdf2id/pdf- Specifjcations to-indesign.htm Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines EPUB 2 Spec for Kindle Plug-in for InDesign http://idpf.org/epub/201 http://kindlegen.s3.amazonaws.com/ InDesign Scripts KindlePluginForAdobeInDesign_ EPUB 3 Spec PublishingGuidelines.zip http://idpf.org/epub/30 Automatication Multi-Find/Change $40 B&N Nook PubIt! EPUB Formatting What Is EPUB? http://automatication.com/index.php?id=12 http://www.jedisaber.com/eBooks/ Guide Peter Kahrel’s Batch Convert Introduction.shtml https://simg1.imagesbn.com/pimages/pubit/ http://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesignscripts. support/pubit_epub_formatting_guide.pdf B&N Fixed-Layout html http://code.google.com/p/epub-revision/wiki/ eBook Architects Marijan Tompa aka TOMAXXI BNFixedFormat http://kindleformatting.com/ http://tomaxxi.com/downloads/ Apple iBooks FAQ Show Hide Local Formatting http://www.apple.com/itunes/content- Image Optimization providers/book-faq.html http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2010/05/ http://zevrix.com/linkoptimizer.php show-local-formatting-in-indesign-cs4