(note: in this example the article listed as ‘1’ is actually continued from the previous page text thread… hence it taking precedence over the other objects). As a result the image will appear before the caption in the content order. In the illustration below the image marked with “3” on the graphic below is positioned further left then the caption “4” above it. After the left-to-right classification it will look at the top-to-bottom position of objects. This means that if there is an object placed at the bottom of the page that is positioned further to the left than a text frame above it, for example an image, the object will appear first in the content structure.

Secondly InDesign first of all assumes a left-to-right object order when determining the content order.

In other words, these objects will not be placed according to their contextual page reference. Any non-threaded content that might decorate the document pages, such as images with captions or break-out text, is added in the content order after the story content is inserted.

Text-threads - or stories as they are referred to in InDesign - are added as an uninterrupted content flow.

When the EPUB content order is based on the Page Layout structure of the InDesign document the following occurs: InDesign CS5 enables content order creation based on Page Layout or XML Structure. This was primarily due to the fact that the content order of the EPUB would be based on the document’s Page Layout.

With the current trend towards ereading, it seems more then logical that publishers are looking at converting existing InDesign documents into EPUB format.Īlthough earlier versions of InDesign have had support for Digital Editions Export (EPUB), up until the most recent release of InDesign (CS5), we would have had to change the way in which our documents were laid out in order to best prepare them for EPUB output.

Using InDesign for the layout and InCopy for editorial purposes. Over the past 8 to 10 years publishers worldwide have moved to Adobe InDesign and InCopy workflows for their book production. Samples provided in this write-up use Adobe InDesign CS5 (7.0.2) and Digital Editions Export 3.0.0

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