Your pages would be fixed size which will look lousy on most EPUB readers.įor you to understand more about EPUB, I highly recommend a couple of sources. There the expectation is that the text will reflow from page to page, and will be able to be resized in the EPUB reader. You're taking a totally different approach than 99.9% of EPUB creators. The result is that your text is probably displayed as 72 ppi, explaining your results. If you are using InDesign CS5.5 or higher, you can set it as high as 300 ppi. If you are using InDesign CS5 or earlier the image resolution default is 72 ppi. The image resolution is set either in Images section of the Export EPUB dialog box or alternatively (if you have InDesign CS5.5) it can be customized in Object > Object Export Options. A placed PDF file is considered a graphic, and it will be rasterized upon export (you'd have the same thing happen if you placed an Illustrator file). However, EPUB export is a much different animal. InDesign will accurately preview each page, and will pass on the text accurately when you make a new PDF file. It doesn't tell you the details of this very different workflow which requires quite an education.Īpparently, you imported PDFs of each Microsoft Word page into InDesign. The InDesign Help system covers only the basics of the export dialog. With new technologies like EPUB export, there has been much progress from version to version. Is there some method I can use to fix these problems? Or am I going to have to recreate the layout for all 1857 pages painstakingly object by object in InDesign?įirst, It's always helpful if you tell us what version of InDesign, and what platform you're running. Not surprisingly, the text was just as poorly rendered in Digital Editions, which then displayed the first page of the document as 1 / 3 instead of 1 / 710. The only reference I found related to InDesign text quality on export is in Object Export Options, but they remain disabled to me.Īnd as a final test, I script loaded all 710 pages of the indesign_cs5_help.pdf to see if it would display the same problems. And for what it is worth, Problems #1 and #2 persisted, even when bypassed the script and I hand placed a half dozen pages from the PDF into an InDesign document and exported them to an EPUB file.Īlso, if I export back to a PDF from InDesign, the text looks perfect and the page numbering is correct in Digital Editions. But the text in the script loaded PDF pages look horrible. When I cut and paste a few pages of text from the PDF into an InDesign layout, it looks fantastic when I export it to an EPUB. I can find no documentation in the InDesign help system to explain why I am getting these results. However, the same text in InDesign perfectly reflects the high quality fonts used in the original PDF and Microsoft Word Documents. Each letter is chunky and fragmented and partially pixelated.

Problem #2: The document text in the EPUB file is so poorly rendered it is almost illegible. This happens despite the fact that the correct number of pages correctly displays in the InDesign document settings. Problem #1: Both the Digital Editions EPUB reader and the Nook recognize the EPUB document as having only two pages (displaying 1 / 2 on the screen, even though I can scroll to or page to all 430 pages in both Digital Editions and the Nook. However, when I exported the document into an EPUB file, I ran into two problems that I cannot fix. The imported PDF looked perfect in InDesign once I switched to a high-quality display performance in the View menu. I used a script to import all of the pages of one book into InDesign into a document reflecting the page and margin parameters of the original Microsoft Word document file.

I have four finished books in PDF files, totaling 1857 pages including over 600 photographs, which I need to convert to EPUB files in InDesign.

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