Reply To: Epub formatting in ADE compared to I-Books

Jacqui, I have no interest here to guess what the problem might be … but nevertheless I would like to give you a few hints:

1. InDesign CS5.5 was the first version with a real epub-output (the good news)

2. InDesign CS5.5 produces realy bad code (the bad news)

3. I assume, that ADE honors the output of the cascading stylesheet (the formatting), while other readers (especially iBooks) doesn’t.

4. How things are displayed in iBooks depends on
– the version of iBooks,
– the version of your EPUB > with CS5.5 surely EPUB 2,
– if your paragraphs are tagged or not
– and the fact, if there is manually included a special file ‘com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml’.
This file is responsible for displaying fonts and for alignment.

Kai