Updated tutorial: Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB with Anne-Marie Concepción

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How to create a fixed Layout ePub?

I'm trying to create a photography book to sell as an ePub and on the kindle store - I've made plenty of iBooks and published them in the iBookstore - unfortunately one has recently been rejected because of Apple's censorship rules. My books look exactly the way i want them to in iBooks and want to recreate them as closely as possible to sell as mobi and epubs. I've noticed that unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a program similar to iBooks Author for making epubs... I've tried InDesign CS6 for epubs but moved to Pages as I thought it might be simpler.
So far I can't find any thing that explains step by step how to make fixed Layout epubs - in any program- usually I use Lynda.com but they only have fixed layout epubs for the iBookstore. My knowledge on inDesign and iBooks author is quite good but my knowledge on HTML is limited. Is this accomplishable?

Hi Douglas,
How do this?
ID >> PDF export:
ID >> Fixed layout epub export:
Thanks in advance! [Soon, another problem …!]

What resolution should I save images for fixed-layout epub?

I have produced an illustrated history book that was created with 300dpi images for print publication. My next step is to create a fixed-layout epub. Is there a particular resolution that I should set for the images? Is there a single resolution that I can use to target all tablets and e-readers that accept fixed-layout epubs?
My strategy was going to be to generate a PDF of the book (with no text) and import the PDF pages as the background images for the fixed-layout epub. I am guessing that I should use 150 dpi when saving the PDF.
I'm just a little worried that if I create the fixed-layout epub with 150 dpi images, it may not show up correctly on tablets that don't have high resolution screens?
Thanks,
Paul

Use the "Save for Web" option. Put in the resolution you want, and then dial down the quality, it will show you what it looks like. Go as low as you're willing given the quality it shows.

Hyperlink Problem when Creating Fixed Layout ePub

Hi guys, not sure if anyone can help...
I've created a fixed layout ePub from a print document and everything works perfectly apart from I can't get hyperlinks to work.
Originally I'd set up the hyperlinks on my text which didn't work. After a bit of digging around I found some documentation stating that text hyperlinks don't work and that they need to be fired from an image. Also, internal links (to other pages) don't work, only links to external URLs - fortunately for me - all my required links are to external URLs, however, they still don't appear to work... does anybody have any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong?
I'm testing with Redium on Windows 7 and iBooks on iPad Air
Thanks in Advance
Kindest regards
Poll

Hi Poll,
The hyperlinks are set on what kind of objects? If the external hyperlinks are applied on a text frame or a rectangle, it won't work. There are two cases that work:
1. Hyperlink on images
2. Hyperlink on objects in a group and the group is set to rasterise from Object Export Options dialog.
What is your case which is not working? Please elaborate.
Regards,
Pooja

Fixed Layout ePub - please help me embed video and/or use Folio overlay with web content

Hi
I have an In Design file used to create a print book (11"x11") and have decided to use CC 2014 to create a fixed-layout ePub 3 for a digital version. I converted the book over with minor issues of having to change the font and it looks beautiful.
I would like to add videos at the end of the book to take advantage of the flexibility of the digital format. I create a year-end slideshow of my photos and host them on Vimeo.
I have tried the following:
Using the Vimeo standard embed code in an HTML element
Using the old flash Vimeo embed code and converting to HTML - worked great on iBooks on Mac but not on iPhone/iPad as flash-based
Hosting and linking to videos on my own web server and using the Media - insert video link to the mp4 file
Hosting and linking to videos on my old photo server at smugmug.com
I can embed the actual videos but, at their smallest size they increase the file size of the ePub from 78MB to 400MB...
I then thought I would use a Folio Overlay - Web Content.
The idea is to use this blank page on my website which would look for all intents and purposes like another white page in the book - 2012 Slideshow - Oren Photography
The overlay works in Folio Preview but not when exported as an ePub
Is this a limitation of the ePub format?
Any help/advice/suggestions on fixing this are greatly appreciated.
E

Thanks again Steve and Bill
My interest in embedding videos was largely to minimize the final file size and amount of space used on each person's device. I ended up following your advice about using Adobe Media Encoder to minimize the size of each slideshow but it still increased the final ePub from 65 MB to over 200 MB. And that was with video quality that was far inferior from what I could offer through an embed or, my final solution, a link out to my website.
I happen to be of the same thought as Bill that most people are now connected to the internet and would favor a smaller file with access to online content over a very large file. I would have liked to embed the videos and allow 720p quality inside the ePub over the link I ended up settling for.
E

I have created fixed layout epub file, its display vary on indian iPad and German iPad

Hi All,
I have created a fixed layout epub file. I've viewed this in Indian iPad it disply seems good, but the same epub file i've viewed by German iPad its display vary. I dont know why this displays vary on iPad. This is iPad problem or iPad settings vary on different countries.
Please find below the iPad screen shots.
Indian iPad
German iPad
Kindly advise if anyone faced this issue.
Thanks in advance.
Thnaks & Regards,
U.Arikrishnan.

Hi Tom,
Please find below the images taken from the two different ipad,
Indian iPad
German iPad
I've faced this kind of issues in multiple books. I know there is no differnce in manufacturing but why this happened?
Regards,
U.Arikrishnan.

How do I create a fixed layout landscape-only epub3 in Indesign?

Hi
I have been trying to create a fixed layout epub3 from indesign without results.
What I've done is to create a book with 4 pages in layout format 1034px/768px, each of them with text and pictures. I gave the text a style with the paragraph and exported in epub3 format.
When I upload this to the ipad it works as a epub2, the layout is not fixed.
When I open the files and read the code it actually is like a epub2, there is no fixed layout meta tag, there is no page dimension in each page, in the css the body size is auto and so on.
I also opened the files and added without any result the following in the .opf file.
<meta property="rendition:layout">pre-paginated</meta> (this should create the fixed layout option)
<meta property="rendition:orientation">landscape</meta> (this should create a landscape only view)
<meta property="rendition:spread">none</meta> (this should create a one page at a time view)
Is there a way of achieving what I want or it simply is a functionality not yet introduced?
Thanks for any advice

InDesign CS6 or earlier is not designed for creating fixed layout EPUB files. Essentially it would have to be done in a very painful, very manual process. Anne-Marie Concepcion describes the process in this Lynda.com video:
Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB
The Rorohiko product is the best thing going at the moment.

How to prevent page turn in margin tap on a fixed layout ePub ?

I have created a fixed layout ePub for Apple iPad with some on-touch animations on tap. It works fine except the pictures which are in extreme margins (left and right). On touch it activates page-turn rather than the required animation. Is there any way to prevent page turn? Please help.

event.preventDefault() should do the trick on your own controls. If you are using one of the built-in iBooks shortcuts (read-aloud start/stop button comes to mind) then you may not have full control.

Fixed layout ePub - hyperlinks not working?

A question: I am making a fixed layout ePub for Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. The file contains lots of text and some graphics and links to a website. However, when I export the fixed layout ePub, all the hyperlinks die. I read from many forums that this is very common and couldn't yet find a way around it.
Is there a way to have a fixed layout ePub WITH working hyperlinks, or this combination not possible with Indesign CC?

They should be working if you've updated InDesign CC 2014 to the latest update (October release):
Hyperlinks not exporting in ePub Fixed Layout for InDesign CC 2014

Missing "bookmarks" option in fixed-layout-epub export panel-?

Hi everyone, I'm having an issue exporting a fixed layout epub with bookmarks.
The "Bookmarks" option is not present/visible/showing up in the export options: I only have "none", "file name", "Multi level". But I do have bookmarks in the document.
I had canceled old bookmarks and recreated them, but nothing changed.
I really can't figure out the what the problem is!
Any suggestion will be really appreciated… Thanks.

I understand that you need the newest version (InDesign CC 2014.1) to accomplish what you want with EPUB.
But if you have a Creative Cloud subscription, you can download BOTH that version (the current one) AND also install InDesign CC (which came out in 2013), as well as InDesign CS6. All can be installed simultaneously!
As I described above, I think you unintentionally muffed it by installing a trial on top of your installation. Both should be uninstalled.
Then with Creative Cloud install the latest version and make sure it's working.
To download an older version from Creative Cloud, select the Apps menu in the CC application. Scroll down till you see "Filters & Version" In that section, you will see the older versions which you can also install.

Portrait & Landscape Layout in fixed layout EPUB

Is it possible to create a fixed layout epub that when viewed in portrait orientation on a device it displays just one page and when the device is flipped to a landscape layout it displays two pages (both pages still portrait layout) side by side?

This is the code you use to tell iPad to display in landscape mode.
[?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?]
[display_options]
[platform name="*"]
[option name="fixed-layout"]true[/option]
[option name="orientation-lock"]landscape-only[/option]
[option name="open-to-spread"]true[/option]
[/platform]
[/display_options]
Replace the brackets to carets and you're good to gol Name the file:
com.apple.ibooks.display-Options.xml
and it's put in the META-INF folder
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Where to sell fixed layout ePubs created with ID CC 2014?

I'm wondering where I can sell my eBooks created with the fixed layout ePub3 option in InDesign CC 2014.
I have already uploaded my first book to Apple iBook Store and it is online there.
But are there other stores where I can sell my book? What is with Google Play, Kindle, Kobo?
Has anyone already experiences?
Thanks for your helps
Almute

Here's a chart that Anne-Marie Conception referred to in her webinar on Fixed Layout EPUB from InDesign CC 2014 which tells which features are supported by which platforms for EPUB3:
EPUB 3 Support Grid | BISG
Presumably, if a platform supports the feature, then it should be publishable on their bookstore.
Here's a link to a recording of the webinar:
Adobe Webinar_1

Fixed layout ePub problem with facing pages

Hi,
I have a 240 page book made out of multiple inDesign files that I'm trying to convert to a fixed layout ePub. Everything works like a charm except the transition from one file to the next.
The book uses facing pages setting so when the file ends for example in page 40, it is a left hand page, and the next file starts from page 41 and that is a right hand page. After exporting to fixed layout epub, the resulting file has blank pages between the files. What I mean is after the left hand page 40 there is an empty right hand page, then an empty left hand page followed by right hand page 41.
What would be the easiest solution for this?

Hi,
I found the problem from the book panel so case closed. In "Book Page Numbering Options" I had "Insert Blank Page" selected. This didn't cause any problems when exporting to pdf but resulted in extra blank pages when exporting to ePub.
Attached is a screenshot from the book panel. The problem occurred between all the files.

Fixed Layout EPUB is not displaying correctly in any of the popular epub readers.

Hi,
After creating the doc in the Indesign cc, I exported it to the fixed layout epub format. The result was catastrophic! The images, text, font size - everything was chaos. I needed the epub to be working in ipads and android tablets.
Can anybody help? Need to deliver it to my customer on priority.
I tried the output in ibooks, Aldiko, ADE and a few other popular readers.
Thx
VJ

Hi Ananda,
Adobe Digital Editions has come up with a new update ADE 4. You can view your Fixed Layout EPUB here. Please note that ADE 4 on Mac works fine with FXL EPUB exported from InDesign CC 2014, you might see some issue on Windows though. We are aware of the issues and the team is working on fixing these issues with ADE on Windows.
Readium is also a good reader which displays FXL EPUB fine.
Regards,
Pooja

Fixed Layout EPUBs in Adobe Indesign CC 2014

Hi Friends,
I'm fascinated with the prospects of the Fixed Layout EPUBs.   In the few video tutorials that are more current, Adobe host shows the ability to PREVIEW the EPUBs using the menu item OBJECT > INTERACTIVE > Epub Previewer. But no go.
So, I've now installed from Creative Cloud, the Extend Script tool kit as well as Extension Manager.   I also installed Edge Inspect CC.
Am I on the right track to find or install the Interactive > Fixed Layout EPUB Previewer?    I need your guidance and have not found anything through my searches online.
I exported my Fixed Layout EPUB yesterday and the slider I created by following one of the few tutorials caused some sort of problem because that entire SPREAD was blank, although all other pages were present.
Thanks for any guidance.
Sincerely
mary

Hi Steve, I am a regular subscriber to Creative Cloud and have updated all apps. My version of Adobe InDesign does show 2014.1 under About InDesign.
Believe it or not, one of the more helpful videos out in Adobe TV land showed interactive under the Object menu:
See 5:30 on this page: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/interactivity-fixed-layout-epub.html?set=indesign- -key-techniques--epub-fixed-layout I finally found the answer here at Adobe forums (monica).   Now I have it installed in the panel on the right.
I'm on an iMac and use all Apple products.   I've tossed Windows to the wind.
Thank you so much for your support.
Mary

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