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Liz_0474
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March 4, 2025
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Do TIF inline custom symbols behave well on epub export?

  • March 4, 2025
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I am about to rent InDesign after using Publisher for a PDF version of a book which prints my custom images in an asset panel for inline with text use throughout. Pardon I am new to Adobe.

 

Can I please hear if my symbols - which print perfectly and export to PDF clearly -

will be translated somehow by Indesign to export to a reflowable epub.

 

(aside,I also have TIFF photos which look great at send to kindle exported as jpeg.)

 

These symbols tho took so much time experimenting to be clear, no other format worked well.

 

If I need to change format tho, please say which formats for symbols inline with text work from import,

to export as epub. Thanks so much!

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James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
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March 4, 2025

EPUB supports only JPEG, PNG and GIF, and all other formats will be converted to one of those. (InDesign has both an "automatic" mode that lets it select a format, and fixed selections so that all graphics are, for example, converted to PNG.)

 

In general, conversion of graphics is reliable and accurate. There are many issues that will control (or mess up!) size, placement, alignment etc. EPUB export is not like PDF and does not, as a rule, create a perfect result from a print layout.

 

Happy to answer questions and help guide you, but to start with: I'd recommend strongly against using fixed-page (FXL) EPUB format — no, it's not the equivalent of PDF or the "easy" option! — and don't ever convert any graphics to GIF in the process. Short reasons: both are completly obsolete formats with many problems.

 

How do you plan to get a Publisher file to InDesign, though?

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Liz_0474Author
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March 4, 2025

Appreciate very much a response, there is no help in Affinity forums or KDP.

Yes, reflowable only option for epub.

I only mention the tiny symbols work perfectly in a PDF because after all my experimenting I finally got them to be clear printed and sent to kindle for a test.

Just now I dragged a symbol from my assets panel in Affinity Designer where I created them, perfectly smooth gorgeous, exported selection only (transparent bg already) as PNG, brought it back into the same document and it has jaggy edges for the letter and slightly less jaggy symbol grouped next to the letter. I'm not sure how InDesign would be different.

My only choice it seems it to wait forever for Affinity program epub export. But I would prefer to get on with my life using InDesign.

I would rent InDesign and copy text into frames there. And anchor my symbols which I assume can be added to a library, inserted and anchored inline with text. Or just copied and pasted from my library onscreen in an adjacent document.

I don't know what else I could do. I have the rough manuscript in Pages but I dislike it.

So.......

please mention if I should rent Indesign first anyway just to test this for a month?

No one who formats ebooks has had any advice but they want to 'walk with me' thru my whole publishing 'experience' kind of thing...

 

Thank you so much for trying to understand me even if I don't have the right language.

 

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Liz_0474Author
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March 4, 2025

Adding to post, I also exported selection only of the perfect symbol to best jpeg. When adding back into the Designer doc it was overall jaggy terrible and without transparent bg.

Also tried GIF - was even worse, totally jaggy and missing symbol parts.

So GIF, PNG, Jpeg nothing works.

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