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• • April 4, 2011 at 8:55 am #59165
    meanwhile

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    Hello,

    I am still having problems with my epub TOC. I have followed to the letter Anne Maris Concepcion's Lynda.com epub training chapter on this (typing out my table of contents manually and creating cross references). All the cross references come up perfectly and the same in the hyperlinks panel but do not show up in the navigation bar in adobe Digital Editions. I even discarded one TOC, rebuilt every single cross reference and still I have (apart from one miracle export which I cannot seem to recreate where some showed up in the navigation bar)

    a) no table of contents in the navigation bar

    b) the same two chapters that refuse , though they are set up EXACTLY the same as the rest, to be hyperlinks in the TOC page.

    Also, every time I export book for digital editions (figured out that i had to be in the BOOK workspace for that, not typography where I was), it opens every single chapter, tells me that I am “missing required parameter 'from' for event 'open”, has a spinning disc, then crashes. When I open the book again, though I closed all the documents prior to export; all the documents open with danger warnings which say they have been 'modified outside the book'. These danger warnings disappear when I manually save and close each document. Three days now of this.

    You guys are pretty silent these days…Is anyone out there?

    PS I still never resolved the creating a TOC from Section headers problem, ended up writing out every chapter again, manually, with invisible type on each chapter start page….anyone else have that problem?

  • April 4, 2011 at 9:17 am #59166
    meanwhile

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    some progress – I have fnally figured out one way to have the toc appear on the sidebar in ADE, contrary to what Anne Marie Concepcion says (I'm sure she knows a better way but it ain't working for me) by NOT surpressing the document titles in the export This is not ideal as I will have to change the document titles to be what I want to appear in the sidebar but it's s step. However, I deleted the two ducuments from the book that were not appearing as hyper links on the TOC page (though they now appear fine and link up to the right chapter on the sidebar). I reimported them to the book. Re cross-referenced them and the still do not appear as hyperlinks.

    InDesign still crashing every single time I export book.

    HELP!!! I'm so nearly there and this really is the last step in a five year project. We are going to pick up our adopted baby in Africa in a week and I am desperate to get this finished before we go…..

  • April 4, 2011 at 9:22 am #59168
    meanwhile

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    pps

    Can I rename my book documents so they appear as I would like them to in the TOC sidebar without opening all 60 of them, saving them as something new and reimporting them, then redoing all the cross references again? I just want to take the numbers off and correct a spelling mistake or two on the doc names.

  • April 5, 2011 at 10:05 am #59177
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

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    Hi there!

    Re how quiet it is here … :-) … it's only because you're asking questions that only a very small percentage of people on the forums are familiar with. If you were asking questions about image scaling or hyphenation, then you'd probably get a ton of answers. EPUB exporting out of ID is something that relatively few people do, though of course it's picking up steam. You might get many more answers to these types of questions by also posting to forums where everyone is making EPUBs, such as https://mobileread.com. (I showed that site in my video.)

    For the navigational TOC in ADE that you're talking about, what appears there is a list of links to the separate XHTML files comprising the book. If you're starting with a Book document (many INDD files in the Book panel), and you're not using the TOC/first-level option in the Export dialog box (only available w/CS5), then the navigational TOC will be the filenames for your InDesign documents. In other words ID will export one XHTML file per INDD file. The name of each INDD file will be what the nav TOC shows.

    Cross-references are problematic. If you've got cross-references, do NOT rename the INDD files, otherwise you'll end up with broken links. You'll see that in the Hyperlinks/Cross-References panel after the fact, when you open a doc. Even if they're working perfectly in the INDD file/book, when you export to EPUB they may break. There is a known bug involved w/them and EPUBs, that the Teus DeJong script I show in the video partially fixes.

    In my experience talking w/other EPUB producers, you'll likely have to fix the x-ref links after the export to EPUB, by making them into relative links instead of absolute ones and if you've changed a filename, to the correct filename. Knowing how to use GREP in your Find/changes and doing so across all the documents in the book will help a great deal. Or this might be something you should just job out.

    Sorry I don't have better news for you!

    AM

  • April 5, 2011 at 10:07 am #59178
    Anne-Marie Concepcion

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    PPS You can easily change what the Navigation TOC shows by hand-editing the toc.ncx file after the export, which I also show in one of the videos. No need to change the name of an INDD file to fix a typo (and thus break x-ref links).

    AM

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