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• • May 25, 2019 at 7:37 pm #116864
    David Thomson

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    When I export my Indesign document of 276 pages as an EPUB with the endnotes at the end of the document and the split features on all the endnotes links are broken in the document and do not work. The numbers in the bibliography are all missing except number one and even that link does not work. I did some research to find if others have had this problem and discovered that is the case. The best suggestion I came across stated that the split feature on export must be off or the endnotes and their links will be broken. They suggested to export without splitting and then split it in Sigil. Is this the best solution or is there now a script I can import into Indesign to solve this problem? The HTML file when not split is so big that it is hard to do anything with it in Dreamweaver or Calibre because it is continually processing. Let me know if there’s a better solution as I believe there will probably be problems using Sigil although I have not tried this yet.

  • May 28, 2019 at 12:31 pm #116887
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

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    The problem is that the endnote feature in InDesign is broken when trying to export to EPUB. Unlike the index feature, the endnotes won’t update their internal links structure to account for file-splitting after they’ve been created. So that’s why they’ll work if you keep the EPUB as one ginormous HTML file instead of splitting into chapters.

    File a bug here: https://indesign.uservoice.com

    I don’t know if Sigil is smart enough to update all the endnote links, I haven’t tried.

    –AM

  • May 28, 2019 at 12:32 pm #116888
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

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    The problem is that the endnote feature in InDesign is broken when trying to export to EPUB. Unlike the index feature, the endnotes won’t update their internal links structure to account for file-splitting after they’ve been created. So that’s why they’ll work if you keep the EPUB as one ginormous HTML file instead of splitting into chapters.

    File a bug here: https://indesign.uservoice.com

    I don’t know if Sigil is smart enough to update all the endnote links, I haven’t tried.

    –AM

  • May 30, 2019 at 10:27 pm #116954
    David Thomson

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    Since InDesign is not able to provide an EPUB with endnotes and I doubt that Sigil will solve the problem I would like to know if you have a solution that is effective to get my e-book on Amazon Kindle direct publishing. When I did an export through InDesign as an interactive PDF file the e-book is perfect with all the links and the endnotes. I then tried to use Kindle Create under the textbook and cookbook section which accepts PDF files. The problem is the links cannot be edited and often go beyond the specific link to the surrounding words. I’m looking at various converters on the Internet and have tried conversion into docx format and other formats which were terrible. My e-book is a long complex outline created through InDesign with a large index and endnotes that adds up to around 276 pages at 6 x 9. I have looked at your training videos and completed your most recent training video series, “Epub: Indesign 2018” with a certificate. It seems almost impossible to get my e-book acceptable for Amazon Kindle and yet I have Amazon Kindle on my phone with the books I purchased that are long with lots of endnotes and look perfect but they are not in outline format. Please let me know what you believe is the best steps to take to solve this problem with the endnotes and links not being able to be edited in Kindle Create except if submitted as paragraphs of writing under the Novel Essay section rather than an outline which accepts pdf under the Textbook Cookbook section. Your help will be greatly appreciated.

  • June 24, 2019 at 2:46 pm #117325
    Clark Kenyon

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    Something you could do which is long and tedious but would probably work is to convert the endnotes to text (you can use this script https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/footnote_endnote_conversion_cc2018.html), then relink them to the note references in the text by using cross-references.

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