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Use object styles for EPUB attributes

Use object styles for EPUB attributes - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign to EPUB: Creating Ebooks

Use object styles for EPUB attributes

- [Instructor] You know the importance of using paragraph and character styles when you are laying out any kind of document in InDesign, but especially for EPUBs and specifically for accessible EPUBs because you can map the styles to the appropriate HTML tag and edit the classes and so on right from within InDesign to make for better output. I want to talk about using object styles for some of the same reasons. If you're not using object styles now, then let me quickly show you how to create one. Here we have a sample of our EC Gardens book and you remember this image from the text wrap chapter? While I have copy and pasted it here. So it's a text wrap. It is anchored right here, and it needs to have a setting of float left applied to it in order for this text wrap to be carried through to the EPUB. Do you remember that? Okay, so I'm going to double check under Export Options. There it is, custom layout float left, and it's…

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