From the course: InDesign CC to EPUB (2018)

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Specify an EPUB reader for Windows

Specify an EPUB reader for Windows

From the course: InDesign CC to EPUB (2018)

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Specify an EPUB reader for Windows

- [Instructor] On the Mac, it's nice that iBooks automatically gets installed by default as the default EPUB reader whenever you double click on an EPUB on the Mac platform. And in InDesign, when you go to export an EPUB either reflowable or fixed, down here under viewing apps, it's already setup as the system default. If you have other apps that can also open up EPUBs, then you can add them here and you can have the same EPUB be exported to all those apps and you can view them side by side which is kinda cool. But on the PC, we don't have that. So here on Windows in InDesign, and I've just opened a single one-page document so that I can show you the EPUB export options dialogue box, and we'll just call this Untitled-5 and click save. When you go down to viewing apps, there's nothing there, kind of a pain. So here's what you have to do if you're on Windows. Cancel out of here. Go to your favorite browser and search for Adobe Digital Editions which is Adobe's free EPUB reader and it's…

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