![]() ![]() This support will vary by device, but the iPad can use mobile Safari to go to those links. To give people a way to find out more about the things you’re writing, use hyperlinks. If you get to the end of the page and need another page, InDesign will add more pages for you. You can either start typing, or you can paste text you’ve already written. ![]() Click below the frame you created in the last step, press Return (PC: Enter), and select your body text paragraph style in the Paragraph Styles panel (if you don’t type a return, your headline at the top of the page will switch to your body text paragraph style, as well). Now comes the part where you actually write your book. Then you can place your graphic (File>Place), or you can wait to place all your images at once-it doesn’t really matter. From the Position drop-down menu, choose Inline or Above Line and click OK. From the Content drop-down menu, choose Graphic and specify a Height and Width in which you want your graphic to abide by. ![]() Now, on page 5, place your cursor after the headline and go to Object>Anchored Object>Insert. You should also create a paragraph style for your body text.Īlthough InDesign allows you to place things anywhere you want, you need to keep everything inline after the ToC for your EPUB to work. Create the headline the way you want it to look and then add it as a style in the Paragraph Styles panel (Window>Styles>Paragraph Styles) by Option-clicking (PC: Alt-clicking) the New Style icon, naming your style “Headline,” and clicking OK. Hold down Shift-Command (PC: Shift-Ctrl) and double-click to insert your cursor on page 5. The creation of a headline paragraph style will be used to identify new chapters or sections in your Table of Contents (ToC), and it will also be used to dictate the beginning of a new page in the book. Note: If a warning sign pops up regarding the master text frames, click OK, ignoring this dialog. Then delete the master text frames on pages 2 through 4. After you’ve inserted your cover, insert four new pages after the cover by clicking the Create New Page icon at the bottom of the Pages panel (Window>Pages). That means either you create the entire image in Photoshop or Illustrator, or you create a separate InDesign document for your cover, lay it out, and File>Place it on this first page. Your first page will actually be your book cover and has to be one piece. Hold down Shift-Command (PC: Shift-Ctrl), click on the page to unlock this frame, and press the Delete (PC: Backspace) key. Also check the Delete Empty Pages box, and click OK.īecause we enabled the Master Text Frame checkbox in the previous step, your first page will have a text frame on it, but we don’t need it. Go to InDesign (PC: Edit)>Preferences>Type and make sure that the Smart Text Reflow and Limit to Master Text Frames checkboxes are enabled. This way as you write your book, InDesign will automatically add new pages as needed. InDesign CS4 introduced Smart Text Reflow, and this is a perfect time to use it. Enable the Facing Pages and Master Text Frame checkboxes in the New Document dialog, and click OK. Therefore, go to File>New>Document to create a new 5.5×8.25″ document. Let’s take a look at the workflow.Īlthough we’re creating an eBook that can be scaled and reflowed to any size the device displays, it’s probably still a good idea to create a document that more closely resembles a book. I created my first iBook for iPad using InDesign CS5. The good news is that they went with the industry standard EPUB format, and the even better news is that InDesign exports EPUBs natively. One of the things I was most intrigued by was the format that Apple chose for their eBooks (iBooks). There’s no denying that the Apple iPad is a popular and successful product. ![]()
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