Reply To: InDesign 5.5 epub export omits HTML TOC

Hi AM,

I managed to construct the right XHTML to get it to work, but there's definitely something wrong with the TOC export. The TOC itself always appears as just another page, rather than a separate entity, and the tag block after the <spine> isn't created. So some reference juggling does the trick, but it's wonderfully error-prone.

Also, I had a very short dedication in a separate story, but it is always appended to whatever story precedes it in the Articles panel. This is harder to fix manually, because it requires creating a new XHTML page with all the appropriate references. I wonder if ID5.5 has a “minimum length” for a story in the export logic….

I'm puzzled by your comment about the plugin, though — I didn't mean to imply I was using the old plugin. I'm using 5.5, which as far as I know doesn't involve a plugin. I'm exporting from File > Export and then choosing ePUB format, not from File > Export To > Epub.

I hope they get this stuff sorted out soon. It's a big waste of time for a lot of people, and it can't take all THAT much work for an experienced coder at Adobe, even if it requires an export option “For Kindle.”

I (always) look forward to your next discoveries!

Cheers,

Allen