YouTube ePub tutorial

[jay fresno]

Does anyone have suggestion for an excellent up to date YouTube tutofrial covering how to convert an InDesign document that was designed for print to ePub?

I found 2 good tutorials (below) but they are 9 years and 7 years old respectively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBiOheSPECY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DdGXxvoRBs

[James Gifford—NitroPress · Accepted solution]

Put simply, it's much too complex a process for any single/compact/streamlined/simplified tutorial, whether a written one or a video. Most of these are pretty good for what they are; there's a CreativePro one, I think, by Anna-Marie Concepcion that's about as good as they get. But unlike most ID processes, a quick walk through what buttons to push is not nearly enough. The actual export is not as straightforward and absolute as, say, export to PDF or completing a Data Merge. It's murky; many choices and tradeoffs have to be made; and not one tutorial/video I know of handles a single error/problem situation, of which there are many in even the best project.

Conversion from an existing print project is even more fraught, because very few designers are as meticulous and organized as the export demands. Even the best designers tend to be a little sloppy and cut corners that disappear on print or export to PDF, but EPUB follows the document structure, not the way things are pasted all over the pages. Any flaw in the structure, including parts few print designers even pay attention to... and you get a lousy export.

So spend some time with any or all of them, but don't kill yourself getting more than an overview of the process under the most perfect conditions imaginable. For a more grounded approach, you might start with the tutorial/references here, especially the starting two on the basics of ID to EPUB and managing images in EPUB export.

Basically, if you're expecting to learn a straightforward process that spits out an EPUB the way the next process over spits out a PDF... you will be quite confused and disappointed. It just ain't that easy, mostly because EPUB is a difficult, badly managed format and standard.

Happy to answer all further questions.