The General section of the Digital Editions Export Options dialog box includes the following options.

Include Document Metadata

The metadata from the document (or the style source document if a book was selected) is included with the exported file.

Add Publisher Entry

Specify the publisher information that appears in the eBook metadata. You may want you to specify a URL for the publisher so that someone who receives the eBook can visit the web page and purchase the eBook.

Base For CSS Styles

Specify an option to determine which text formatting is included in the eBook stylesheet. If you specify Local Formatting, local text formatting such as italicized words is retained in the style, in addition to defined paragraph and character styles. If Defined Styles is selected, the stylesheet includes the defined paragraph and character styles without local formatting. If Style Names Only is selected, the stylesheet contains empty styles.

Bullets

Select Map To Unordered List to convert bullet paragraphs into List Items, which are formatted in HTML using the <ul> tag. Select Convert To Text to format using the <p> tag with bullet characters as text.

Numbers

Determines how numbers are converted in the HTML file.

Map To Ordered List

Converts numbered lists into List Items, which are formatted in HTML using the <ol> tag.

Map To Static Ordered List

Converts numbered lists into List Items, but assigns a <value> attribute based on the paragraph’s current number in InDesign.

Convert To Text

Converts numbered lists into paragraphs that begin with the paragraph’s current number as text.

Include Embeddable Fonts

Includes in the eBook all fonts that are allowed to be embedded. Fonts include embedding bits that determine whether the font is allowed to be embedded.

View eBook After Exporting

Starts the Adobe Digital Editions Reader, if present. An alert message appears if your system doesn’t have a reader configured to view .epub documents.

The Images section of the Digital Editions Export Options dialog box includes the following options. From the Copy Images menu, determine how images are exported to HTML.

Original

Exports the original image to the eBook. When this option is selected, all other options are dimmed.

Optimized

Lets you change settings to determine how the image is exported.

Formatted

Preserves InDesign formatting, such as rotation or scale, as much as possible for web images.

Image Conversion

Lets you choose whether the optimized images in your document are converted to GIF or JPEG. Choose Automatic to let InDesign decide which format to use in each instance.

GIF Options (Palette)

Lets you control how InDesign handles colors when optimizing GIF files. The GIF format uses a limited color palette, which cannot exceed 256 colors.

Choose Adaptive to create a palette using a representative sample of colors in the graphic without any dithering (mixing of small spots of colors to simulate additional colors). Choose Web to create a palette of web-safe colors that are a subset of Windows and Mac OS system colors. Choose System (Win) or System (Mac) to create a palette using the built‑in system color palette. This choice may cause unexpected results.

JPEG Options (Image Quality)

Determines the trade-off between compression (for smaller file sizes) and image quality for each JPEG image created. Low produces the smallest file and lowest image quality.

JPEG Options (Format Method)

Determines how quickly JPEG graphics display when the file containing the image is opened on the web. Choose Progressive to make the JPEG images display gradually and in increasing detail as they are downloaded. (Files created with this option are slightly larger and require more RAM for viewing.) Choose Baseline to make each JPEG file display only after it has been completely downloaded; a placeholder appears in its place until the file displays.

The Contents section of the Digital Editions Export Options dialog box includes the following options.

Format For EPUB Content

Specify whether you want to use the XHTML or DTBook format.

Include InDesign TOC Entries

Select this option if you want to generate a table of contents on the left side of the eBook. From the TOC Style menu, specify the TOC style you want to use in the eBook. You can choose Layout > Table Of Contents Styles to create a special TOC style for your eBook.

Suppress Automatic Entries For Documents

Select this option if you don’t want the document names to appear in the eBook table of contents. This option is especially useful when you’re creating an eBook from a book.