Epub formatting

Hi. I am formatting a document to epub. The problem is, even when I insert a page break a page break does not appear in the ibook, epub document but does in a PDF. Does anyone know how I can format so that a page break occurs? Thanks.

I had purchased an iBook years ago from the store and it is no longer available now. I am unable to dowload it to any device, including my computer, off of the cloud. Also, what is interesting is that I have a copy of it downloaded onto my iPad (saved in iTunes) but it WILL NOT READ on my iBooks for Mac because of it being off the store. I was a little concerned so I wanted to back up my iBooks to pdf's should this ever happen again. I came to find out it was challenging to find good quality guidance on the issue. So, I figured it out.
As of 11/6/13 with the new OSX Mavericks installed along with the latest iTunes 11.1.3 and new iBooks app for mac here is a quick way to do it.
1. Do a spotlight search (CMD + SPACE) to find the iBooks folder. (it is in your documents)
2. Click on the folder and open it, inside you fill find another folder called Books.
3. From here you may have to do some guesswork to find out which #######.epub file is the book you are looking for. I suggest trying to open them individually and going on from there.
4. Once you isolate the file, make a copy (option hold, click and drag) to the desktop.
5. Go to this website http://www.convertfiles.com/convert/ebook/EPUB-to-PDF.html
6. "Browse" for your file, select the ####.epub on your desktop. Make sure .epub is the "input format" and .pdf is the "output format"
7. Click convert.
8. Click the external link to download your converted file.
Happy reading, where you want to, with backup!

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Hi All,
I'd like some advice on the ePub format and creating help for mobile devices using RoboHelp.
I need to create online help for a basic Contact Record Managment system that will be available on the iPhone, Android, iPad, BlackBerry Torch, etc. I'm using RoboHelp 8 and have followed the instructions on the Adobe blog to generate the ePub format. I'm trying to determine if I should use this format. The way I see it, I could either use the ePub format or modify the CSS so that the help content appears large enough on the mobile device screens.
Is the main benefit to using the ePub format its abililty to resize the content? I guess this would be useful, since the application will support both smart phones and tablets. Also, my other concern is creating online help that requires users to download an ePub reader. Do most mobile devices come ePub-enabled? I know the iPad does, but I'm not sure about smartphones.
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ePub being the ubiquitous format now so almost all the smart phones and devices have a default reader for ePub.
For elaborate flow for ePub generation please follow the links below
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2010/04/robohelp_script_to_generate_epub_format_content_fo r_mobile_d.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8X1EOIZSu2U
http://rjacquez.com/robohelp_content_now_playing_o/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/robohelp/articles/robohelp_epub.html
for best results you should try RoboHelp 9
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From Pages to epub format

On June 2, in a post entitled Pages to ePub, I evoked the challenge of transforming a novel, written in Pages, into epub format for the iPad device. Over the last week, I've succeeded in carrying out this task completely, in an essentially manual way.
Harrison Ainsworth's excellent tutorial on building epubs, which is perfectly sufficient for the basic stuff, can be found at
http://www.hxa.name/articles/content/epub-guidehxa72412007.html
The first operation consisted of exporting all my Pages files as pure text. Then I used BBEdit (on my iMac) to insert countless pairs of XHTML tags: basically "p" tags. The steepest learning curve for me (as an enthusiastic Flash developer who hasn't touched HTML for years) was getting the knack of how to write a perfect XHTML-oriented Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) file.
Curiously, I was hung up by a trivial obstacle for several days: the necessity of zipping together all my files, to create the final .epub document. Here again, Harrison Ainsworth kindly solved this problem by pointing me to a magic tool (in fact a tiny AppleScript device) that can be found on a MobileRead forum at
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=55681
While waiting to buy an iPad, I'm using the Adobe Digital Editions tool on my iMac to display my novel. Finally, the most convenient way of validating the end result consists of using the website at
http://www.threepress.org/document/epub-validate
So, my 318-page novel is now ready (well, almost ready) to be published. I'm awaiting an ISBN number from the French authorities. And maybe I should get a professional graphics artist to produce a first-class cover illustration. For the moment, I haven't looked into the question of whether Apple will be prepared to accept my novel for their iBooks distribution (since I live in France).
I'm now faced by the following tough question: Should I carry on using Pages as a creative-writing tool, or would I be better off using an ebook-oriented environment right from the start? For the moment, there are two or three significant advantages in using Pages for creative writing: (1) There's no technical barrier between the author and his/her output. (2) I can distribute my stuff conveniently to friends and colleagues in the form of PDF files. (3) I can print out pages on A4 paper, for checking.
As much as I'm really fond of Pages, I'm not sure that these advantages justify the messy operations involved in moving to epub format. Consequently, I fear that I might soon be putting Pages in mothballs… alongside Textures, PageMaker and InDesign.

Honestly, at the moment if you are writing fiction, the easiest answer is to use Word or one of the Open Office variants and then use an aggregator and let them hassle with the coding parts (although I must point out that there are some difficulties for the future in terms of the publisher code and the ISBN ownership). Or else get really good at writing CSS/XHTML for yourself, or hire someone to do it for you. There are places where you can get a manuscript formatted for all the major outlets.
For any kind of heavily formatted book, I think the solution is to hunker down and wait a bit. People in the industry are still figuring out how to enforce a lot of formatting (there are some magnificent cookbooks in ibooks right now, for instance, but section headers and captions may not appear in the right place if you tinker with the settings), and it remains to be seen exactly what Steve Jobs meant by including PDFs in ibooks. He didn't say "sell PDFs through the ibookstore", and for material where there's any kind of fixed formatting, PDF is still the best way.
There are some serious bugs in InDesign CS5 for epub creation, although the chapter splitting feature is very tempting. But I think a lot of production shops are waiting to see if Adobe will release a point update before moving to CS5, for all the hassles in CS4.
The other big consideration is the platform wars. If you want maximum readership, you will need separate formatting for Nook, Kindle, ibooks, and now there is a new ereader that is going to be sold in all kinds of general purpose stores like CVS, for example. Formatting for that isn't known yet.
Eventually this will all shake out. They are working on a new standard for epub that should help with a lot of the current problems, but that's probably 18 months away or more.
Another option is to publish your book as an app. I did see a press release last week from someone who is selling a kit to turn a book into an app, but I haven't heard any feedback about whether it's any good or not. Or you can do what the Take Control series has been doing: sell a PDF and recommend GoodReader.
I was pretty excited about that blog post last fall where someone claimed to have found ebook creation embedded in the Pages package, but in reality right now it's a highly complex process, no matter where you start, so it's not surprising this hasn't come to pass. My own ideal would be to be able to lay out a book in Pages and use that as the basis for a PDF or just send a perfect epub straight to the ibookstore, but I'm not sanguine that this will ever be possible.

How to convert mobi books to ePub format?

Hello, I have a question for help here, I have a lot of .mobi books on my computer, I wanna transfer these mobi books to my iPhone and iPad for reading, but I found they doesn't accept mobi format, I tried many ways to convert mobi to ePub but failed, the quality of the output ePub file is so bad, unable to read. pleae help! Is there any software can convert hundreds of .mobi files to ePub format with high quality? Don't give me calibre, it keep crashed in my windows 8, and the it is not easy to use, waste of my time.

And, what did I say? Asnlinkda asked how to convert a mobi book into an epub book (not how to convert an epub in a mobi). I said him that he should use some thid party app (that produces epub books) and if it's necessary, to polish the resulting book mobi to ePub converter. I also say that he could use mobi to ePub converter but that I prefer to use the first method. So, I say that is preferable to use (if it were necessary)
The way I go from Mobi > ePub is to use Vibosoft ePub creator or iStonsoft mobi to epub converter to convert, use Modify ePub to put in the cover and then use Sigil to rename the files and clean up the code/CSS. I find that's the easiest way to do it.
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Epub formatting questions.

Hi,
I've read that the epub format does not support tabs. What should I do as a substitute? Does it support actual regular spacebar spaces instead?
How about for paragraph returns...do I use the 'return' key to add large gaps of space between content if needed? Thinking if I have a title page with title in upper half of "page", and then author name on lower half.
Finally, I've read there are no page breaks (for obvious reasons), but to separate out my chapters intentionally, what's the technique to use? I read somewhere that you can make a picture frame box, rasterize it, etc... Looking for best practice; what's the standard method?
Lastly, if someone is pretty good with HTML / CSS, should one even bother using InDesign? Is it best to layout in Dreamweaver with an accompanying stylesheet?
Thanks for your input!

If you are comfortable with html and css I would not use InDesign for epub publishing - unless you happen to have an existing library of books created in InDesign and/or it is part of a publishing workflow to multiple platforms.
There are, btw, many free and commercial epub editing and publishing tools available:
Sigil, for example (which I like to use for general epub editing), has some very nice features like a code editor and wysiwyg editor combined with toc generator, index generator, validators, svg import, css editor, and so on. It is far more comfortable to be editing in Sigil than in InDesign (and faster), because it is its primary focus. And it happens to be free :-) It also works very well together with other code editors and image editors. I happen to use Netbeans in combination with Sigil for this type of work. Another drawback of InDesign CS6 is that I cannot import SVG files and have them exported in my epub files. Sigil has no such issues - I can even open the svg code for inspection and edit it if required. Arguably you also have much more control over the content and exact image quality/optimization in Sigil (since you would be working directly with these files, rather than relying on InDesign's optimization).
Sigil: https://code.google.com/p/sigil/
BookType is a collaborative e-publishing platform that goes beyond a simple editor. It allows a team of authors to work on books, and outputs to pdf, epub, mobi, odt and html, and services like Lulu.com. BookType is free (open source), though since it is "cloud" based to install it on your own machine you will have to run it in your own webserver.
BookType:
http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/booktype/
These will probably serve as more focused epub publishing environments. Of course, you can always export epub files from InDesign, and check/clean things in Sigil, for example. Up to you.
No matter whether you use InDesign or not, I would invest some time to get aquainted with html and css to gain full control over epub editing and publishing.

I have ebook in epub format. I was using it in Windows XP. However, recently I rebooted my system to Windows 7. Now I am not able to open it in Adobe Digital Edition. It gives an error saying "Document is licensed for a different user account". Can please

I have ebook in epub format. I was using it in Windows XP. However, recently I rebooted my system to Windows 7. Now I am not able to open it in Adobe Digital Edition. It gives an error saying "Document is licensed for a different user account". Can please someone give me a solution for this. the book is expensive and i don't want to lose it. Please help.

I have ebook in epub format. I was using it in Windows XP. However, recently I rebooted my system to Windows 7. Now I am not able to open it in Adobe Digital Edition. It gives an error saying "Document is licensed for a different user account". Can please someone give me a solution for this. the book is expensive and i don't want to lose it. Please help.

Exporting books in epub format

Hi!
is there anyone, who is producing design heavy ebooks in epub format ott of Indesign cs55?
OMG. IMHO the whole export filter is one bog software bug!
The output code is mess. In CSS it mixes different measurement units, it losts object tags, and creates a whole lot of is own generated tags when exporting long docuqments organized as InDesign books.
Do you know, is there any alternative to Adobes own epub export? Or how to use CS50 epub export in CS55?
Ants Tuur

Yes. Maybe i expressed myself wrong. For producing coffe table books, the DPS is the best.
What i am doing is producing textbooks and other books full of images and tables.
I am totally baffled with the amount of bugs Adobe new epub export script includes. I mean -- I got the book with a lot of content and therefore split to several ID files compiled to the book. Whwn i expirt that book, the same tag from different files got his own name: body-1, body-2, body-3, etc. How to overcome it?
And there i a lot od this kind of bugs.
The CSS in epub is the mess.
Im i realy the olny one, who got those problems?
A.

Why won't my galaxy tab won't display epub format

why won't my galaxy tab won't display epub format

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess, "Because you haven't installed an epub reader."
Go to the play store and download a reader. I use Aldiko but there are plenty from which to choose.

Two questions about exporting to epub format...

I have a document that I want to set up as an epub. It is a childrens book, so I need it to do two things that it is currently not doing when I export it.
1. I need the text to stay on the image that it is associated with. Is there a way to anchor the text to an image so it never leaves that image, even when the text is resizing?
2. There are some sound and animations that are currently available on each page. Can those be used in epub format, because, so far, they just disappear when I export to that format?
Thanks for your help.
Kevin

1. Group the text and the image and then make it an anchored object.
2. Not sure what to do with that with CS5 but you should be aware that the use of audio and video in epub is very limited at the current time.
For Epub work you're far better off upgrading to CS5.5. In the mean time I suggest buying a copy of Liz Castro's excellent Epub Straight to the Point: http://amzn.to/rqNwkp
and checking out Anne-Marie Concepcion's videos on Lynda.com. You can get a one week free trial using this link: http://bit.ly/fcGpiI
Bob

PRST1 can not read some book in epub format converted by calibre

I downloaded some books with fb2 format and converted them by calibre to epub format.
I do not have problem to read these book on my PC but with my Reader I see only ??????
Any idea how to fix this.
Thank you.
Max

Hi Max,
Welcome to Sony Community!
This may be an issue due to the file being converted from another format. Check if original ePub format books are being recognized in the Reader.
If my post answers your question, please mark it as an "Accepted Solution."
Thank you for your post.

Epub format for iBooks

I am hoping someone can help me please.
I am a university student, and have many PDF versions of textbooks.
I want to use these in the iBook application, as I love how you can flip the page, and go to a certain page and have them in the bookshelf.
I downloaded calibre, but this is destroying the format of the books when I convert them to Epub format (as they are large files with many pictures etc)
I tried to convert them to HTML format as I read that may be easier to convert to Epub, but the files are too large to convert to HTML (I only tried this using my Gmail account though).
Can anyone help with any software or a better way to transfer these books to be used with the iBooks application please?
(I am using a mac 10.5.8)

Can anyone help with any software or a better way to transfer these books to be used with the iBooks application please?
Probably not. As you've learned, Calibre direct conversions can be "hit or miss" depending on the source file and how willing you are to play with the user preferences. A multi-step conversion should yield better results but may require a lot of manual editing--especially with regard to your graphic resolutions and placement on the page. In short, you would likely have to devote a considerable amount of your time to making a "proper" conversion and even then, making citations for classwork might be a problem due to the re-flowing nature of the ePUB page references depending on font face and size used when sourcing the material. As Tom indicated your are basically attempting to change a print targeted layout format to a screen display inline-flow format where some features of the differening formats tend to be somewhat mutually exclusive. Although retired with plenty of time on my hands, I would not lightly attempt the conversion of a lengthly and highly illustrated tomb even assuming the content were openly available.

Has anyone transferred epub format books from a Sony eReader file into iTunes and synced onto an iPad2?

Has anyone transferred epub format books from a Sony eReader file into iTunes which can then be synced onto an iPad2?

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Some epub formatting and specified fonts are lost after uploading epub to iTunes U and then opening it in iBooks

I have been using DropBox to test my epub in ibooks and just recently uploaded the epub to iTunes U because the file size was getting so big because of the videos for the course that DropBox could no longer open it. My "com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml" file (specifying to use Helvetica) inside of the "META-INF" has been working all along while I have been using DropBox to open it in iBooks. But ever since I uploaded the same epub file to iTunes U and opened the book in iBooks, the font doesn't show up as Helvetica anymore and my paragraph styles are also being ignored. I checked my css files and made sure they all said Helvetica, because my formatting for my tables is the only thing now showing Helvetica. After I unzip and make my edits to the css etc. and rezip and upload to iTunes U, does iTunes U ignore or overwrite files you have changed inside of your epub?
This worries me that iTunes U seems to be having problems with this, and it makes me wonder if I am going about this wrong?
My file size is 129.2 MB and I still have some videos to add to the course. FYI I am creating this epub for the iPhone because we already have a version with iBooks Author for the iPad, but iBA doesn't allow it to open on the iPhone.
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I have children's books in Japanese, Chinese and Arabic that I am trying to convert into epub formats that ibookstore will accept. My source docs are in ms word or pdf format. I want to use ibooks author for this purpose. Can anyone suggest a solution?

Is there an easy way of importing the children's books into ibooks author? There is an image on every other page. The books has to be in fixed layout format.
Any help will be sincerely appreciated. I understand that ibookstore will accept only epub 3.0 formats for Japanese titles. As I stated earlier, my objective is to make those language books available in ibookstore.

The books has to be in fixed layout format
If you mean keep the same as original, I wouldn't expect to retain that, sorry.
You'd be obligated to either copy/paste in sections/blocks of text, images, etc. or insert from Pages/Word, but either way you can expect to have to rework towards whatever 'fixed' layout you need in an iBA book....that can mean significant work in some examples.
You may want to work with a sample to find out the best workflow in any case.
As for Arabic support, see this thread: Does iBook Author support Arabic...: Apple Support Communities
Good luck.

Creating an enhanced ebook in epub format with video for iPad, need guidance

Has any one done this before? I just found this and it is the perfect solution for what I am trying to accomplish. Here is a screen shot of a and enhanced ebook i dowloaded from the apple book store.
http://oi51.tinypic.com/2lub9g2.jpg Just wondering what the best way to go about laying this out, seems like ibooks formats all the epubs to look the same. Thanks

If you want to make a publication from InDesign to iPad, you can also use Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. With it you can add videos to InDesign layout. Videos has to be H.264 encoded, but you can do that with Adobe Media Encoder which is free utility, comes with indesign CS5... and after finishing layout, you can bundle the whole thing to iPad App...(this is strongly simplified description of the process... but anyway, it´s possible)

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