Batch Export to ePub from INDD

[amanm5143]

Hi,

I am working on a project that requires me to export a lot of INDD files into two formats: PDF and ePUB. Due to hard work and benevolence of few of the recognized names, like Mr. Peter Kahrel and many others, in the InDesign Professionals workplace, the tedious task of batch exporting INDD to PDF has already been automated through scripts (for which, these experts can't be thanked enough).

However, I could not find such a solution for ePUBs. Is it possible to batch export INDD to ePUB through script or any other plug-in?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks & Regards,

Aman Mittal

[Steve Werner]

Moving to InDesign EPUB forum

[Derek Cross]

Which version of InDesign and OS do you have?

Is this for a reflowable text ePub or a FXL ePub?

Have your InDesign files been optimised for ePub?

[amanm5143]

Hello Mr. Derek,

Thank you for taking out the time to reply to the thread. I apologize for replying, so late.

I am using InDesign 2018 (v 13.0.1) on Windows 10 Pro.

Looking for a reflowable text ePub

Yes! I have a big batch of final INDD files that needs to be converted to ePubs.

Regards,

Aman Mittal

[Derek Cross]

Do you have Paragraph and Character Styles applied to all your text and are your images anchored to the text?

[amanm5143]

Hi,

All the images are anchored. Regarding the text styling, if I had applied Basic Paragraph at a few places and used certain styles upon it, would that be considered "Paragraph Styling" a well? Apart from this, all the text has necessary paragraph and character styling.

Regards,

Aman Mittal

[Derek Cross]

If you're not sure if your text has had Paragraph and Character styles properly applied, use the Styles Override Highlighter feature in Paragraph and Character Styles to see.

And I assume you've used Space Before and Space After in your Paragraph Styles for extra line spacing and you haven't used carriage returns to insert extra line spacing as these are not recognised in ePubs (HTML).

If any of this doesn't make sense, understand that producing Reflowable Text ePubs from InDesign is not intuitive and rather different from producing publications for print. I suggest you take this great online video tutorial from Lynda.com (you can get 30-days free access): InDesign CC 2018: EPUB

[amanm5143]

Hi,

Yes! Requisite styles are applied and carriage return was not used for line spacing in the documents. Is to possible to batch convert from INDD to reflowable ePubs?

Thanks & Regards,

Aman Mittal