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tween several people in different roles (editor, author, copy editor,
designer).
The final version of the manuscript is established in a word processor
(typically Microsoft Word) or a desktop publishing program
(typically Adobe InDesign).
A graphic designer designs the publication in InDesign.
Corrections are made to the print proof and implemented in the
InDesign file.
A PDF file of the corrected InDesign file is sent to the printer. In Chapter
6 we described how to generate an electronic book based on an
InDesign project. This requires a meticulous internal structuring of the
InDesign document, something that is untypical for the typical workflow
in book projects, and for which most graphic designers working
with InDesign have not been trained. There is also another way to
make use of the possibilities offered by hybrid publishing: rather than
designing for print and then adding the electronic book as an afterthought
at the end of the process, the publishing process is instead
geared towards multiple output formats from the start.
This new workflow allows for a hybrid output to various media (including
print, ebook and web) and is centered on a single editorial and archival file
format, a finalized version of the source document from which multiple outputs
can be generated. Instead of a Word document which is further modified
in InDesign – both of which are less than optimal formats for converting to
EPUB – the editorial and archival file will instead be in a format that can easily
be converted to InDesign for the print edition and to EPUB, MOBI or web for
the electronic publication. As explained earlier in chapters 6 and 7, the most
suitable format for this workflow is Markdown, augmented with the additional
MultiMarkdown extension (which allows for footnotes, cross-references
and bibliographies), and subsequent conversion to InDesign, EPUB and web,
which is then a very straightforward procedure using the Open Source software
tool Pandoc.
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