Reply To: EPUB export from InDesign CS5 creates duplicate images for single picture used multiple times

I just brought this up in another thread. If you uncheck the “Formatted” (CS5) or “Preserve Appearance from Layout” (CS5.5) button on the Image panel of the EPUB export dialog box, it will only produce one image that is identical to what you have on your hard drive. I believe any object styles associated with the frame are retained, it just doesn't resize or otherwise put effects on the image itself. Or I actually have my graphics inline with the text most of the time. The paragraph style used to format the inline image is retained.

If retaining the formatting is important for other images in your document and you really need to check that box, you can use a Regular Expressions find/change in a text editor like Notepad++ for the PC (free) to find all instances of your image and change the name by deleting the numbers that are appended to the name. Notepad++ has a feature that lets you find text in multiple files in a given folder. I'm no Regular Expressions expert but I think it would be something like this: imagename_fmtd+ and then replace with imagename_fmt. d means any digit and + means one or more times.

Hope this helps

Amy