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E-books and use of fonts- Help converting in-design page layout to e-book format.

Jason Anscomb0 votes

Can anyone put me in touch with someone who has the current knowledge of converting an existing book design layout (done in in-design CS6) into an e-book for use on a Kindle reader?
I have just started reading up on it and realise that I might have to change the font/s I have used for the main body of the book and probably a whole lot of things. Luckily the book contains no images, but I do want to retain page ends so that Chapters start on fresh pages. There is also a bit of text styling (custom page numbers, chapter headers etc that may just not be possible on an e-reader.
I have been reading about exporting using fixed page layouts (something it seems you can only do with Creative Cloud though).

I am hoping to use the export E-pub function (within in-design) in order to create the right file.
I assume this leads to a layout which changes size and thus page count, which is fine. But I do want to keep the page ends in at the end of chapters.

Any help would be amazing as I am having to fast-track learn this new way of working.

You could contact Pariah Burke (from iampariah.com)

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