I have been making ebooks with InDesign for many years. I am going to guide you through creating an ebook using what is the most common starting point for ebooks — that is, the print layout file. InDesign is a terrific print layout tool but in order to get really good ebooks out of it, you need to understand how to work the gears. And even then, you will need to do some cleanup of the HTML and CSS that InDesign creates.
I will walk you through that whole process from beginning to end. I will be demonstrating my own workflows that I use with a wide variety of publisher files and content types. This workflow is idiosyncratic in that it includes hacks that I’ve developed over more than a decade of nudging InDesign politely and then not-so-politely.
