So designing a fixed document would likely mean creating something that is visually pleasing and easily readable on any unit in that range. Most tablets today are in the 8-10" range. So fixed designs are best used for content that would really benefit from it, like children's books and coffee table style books, and ebook format magazines. The reason most ebooks are of the reflow variety is that it allows it to be viewed on everything from a desktop, to you iPad or Kindle, your new phablet reader, or even your tiny smartphone.įixed designs can only scale an entire page up and down in size (just like with a PDF), and the reader on a smaller device will be doing a lot of panning and scrolling. There is a downside to all this joy, however. Annemarie Beliard, Product Marketing Manager for Adobe InDesign and Digital Publishing, put it this way, "Fixed Layout EPUB is somewhat like a PDF, except the text is live and searchable, and fixed layout supports interactivity that the PDF format does not." The downside And PDF's are not quite ideal for ebook distribution, just as an ebook of any sort would not easily replace what PDFs are used for. The difference between the two is under the hood. Essentially, designing for a fixed layout ebook is a lot like designing a product that might have instead gone out to PDF. Obviously this is a big boon for any designer, especially those who are used to traditional non-reflowing design esthetics. The new Fixed Layout option will allow an InDesign document to be layed out and designed much the way we would with a traditional printed book, without the expectation of content reflowing.
It refers to graphics being anchored to a specific position in the text, not anchored to a specific page of the document.) Traditional layout (Don't let the term "anchored graphics" in reference to the reflowable format confuse you. This has been a much requested function and is very unlike the more common "Reflowable" format of ePUB 2 and 3, which have free-flowing text and graphics. The second thing to understand is that with the release of InDesign CC 2014, Adobe has added support for what is called "Fixed Layout ePUB Format". Adobe acknowledges this, and reinforces their commitment to minimizing your need to do this. There are still some things that will require "cracking" the exported ebook file. The first is that even with Adobe's hard core commitment, there are probably going to be things that it can't do for you. There are perhaps two general things you need to understand about e-publishing with InDesign today. InDesign has added ePub abilities to the latest InDesign
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