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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