From the course: InDesign CC to EPUB (2018)

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Fixed-layout EPUB vs. Reflowable EPUB

Fixed-layout EPUB vs. Reflowable EPUB

From the course: InDesign CC to EPUB (2018)

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Fixed-layout EPUB vs. Reflowable EPUB

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- [Instructor] As I mentioned, you can create EPUB's from InDesign quite easily. And the EPUB format is a standard format that E-resellers support and that you could use to sell your Ebooks. But one little bit of confusion happens with InDesign because if you go to export to EPUB, you have a couple choices that you have to decide on right away. Here I have the English Cottage Gardens book open. And if I go to export to EPUB, you simply go to File and choose Export, or press command or control 'E'. And you see that you actually have two choices for EPUB. Reflowable and Fixed Layout. Reflowable is the kind that we'll be focusing on in this course. I have other courses for Fixed Layout. But because a lot of publications can go either way, they might work in either format. I wanted to spend just this one video in talking about the differences between these two formats. I've already exported both of these books out to EPUB. One is fixed layout, one is reflowable. I want to show you that…

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