From the course: InDesign CC to EPUB (2018)

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Maintain text frame spacing

Maintain text frame spacing

From the course: InDesign CC to EPUB (2018)

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Maintain text frame spacing

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- [Instructor] As you know, one of the things that InDesign does not carry through to the EPUB export is the precise positioning of frames on the pages. They are exported one right after the other, and any empty space in between them is ignored, and it's really different from what we're accustomed to for print or PDF export. Let me show you a typical example, this one on the left, and how to fix it so the position of the text blocks in your file can be honored in the reflowable EPUB. I have two versions of the title page from English Cottage Gardens side by side. The first one contains elements in separate text frames. The first one is standalone, the second one is standalone. I thought about dividing it into two, one for Leaf and Mortar, one for down here, but I thought, you know, I see a lot of files that have this kind of action happening with people hitting Return all the time, so if I switch to Preview, note, they look almost exactly the same, right? I'll get out of Preview by…

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