Reply To: Indesign to epub image issue

The TOC has to be in its own story, contained in its own frame. It can’t be part of the book’s “main flow” of text.

So the pages coming before the TOC have to also be their “own story” … that is, their text frame’s Out Port needs to be empty, no arrow showing there. That way, InDesign looks at the first page/spread, exports the content. No story is threaded to a page that comes after the TOC, so it goes to page 2. Exports. Page 3. Exports. Gets to your TOC page. Exports that story. Gets to the next page … maybe it’s Chapter 1. And here it’s the first frame in a threaded story that spans many pages. So it exports the entire story. Then it goes to page 6 … if the only thing there is the threaded story, which it already exported, it goes to page 7, and so on.

I know I talked about this in my video on Layout Order Export in my InDesign > EPUB vids on lynda. And David has some very good videos in his InDesign Essentials lessons on how to work with threaded stories.

hope that helps!
AM