Quite by coincidence, I have the same sort of questions at the moment
(hello, Perian!).
Always one to perfer *not *to re-invent the wheel, I would be delighted to
get in touch with more colleagues who have already done
catalog conversion projects, and get some experienced advice. With thanks
--
Amalyah Keshet
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 8:03 PM Perian Sully wrote:
> Hi everyone:
>
> I'm trying to figure out some workflows for our publications department to
> convert their final InDesign-formatted catalogue files into ePub and I'm
> finding it's not as straightforward as I hoped it would be.
>
> First, the final copy of the catalogue has the spine and cover pages at the
> front, so those need to be edited and moved about for ease of reading on a
> browser. Second, they're not currently embedding their metadata, and I'm
> not sure where the ISBN number should go, or editors and authors, etc. IPTC
> doesn't seem to cut it here. And third, the Calibre conversion to ePub
> is... yeah. Multiple columns within the pages get scrambled a bit, and
> setting up the TOC is a bit maddening. I'd hoped the Adobe suite would have
> a nice conversion tool by now, but not that I can see.
>
> So, does anyone happen to have some workflows for converting museum
> catalogues figured out, and that they'd be willing to share with me?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> ~Perian Cohen
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