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• • June 13, 2012 at 7:51 am #62408
    gmnyc

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    Hello,

    I'm working on a project to convert many documents that have been laid out in InDesign using a pretty standard template and paragraph styles. We're figuring out ways to convert them to epub with the least amount of steps necessary, while preserving the look of the documents as faithfully as possible.

    When we tested the epub export in CS5.5, the epub maintained the spacing of the paragraph styles that the text was tagged with (which is what we want!) — ex. 5pt below, 10pt above, etc. But, now that we're in CS6 (and using the same settings as the CS5.5 export), the epub is not preserving this spacing.

    Is there a way to bring this back? We'd love to be able to fix this in the InDesign export as opposed to having to go into the CSS and tweak every time (this would also be an issue because there are in some cases many local overrides to the styles in the documents).

    Thank you!

  • June 13, 2012 at 10:30 am #62409
    Glenn Kramer

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    Unfortunately, the margin-top setting has been removed from the ID6 ePub export settings, I think this is a bug, not a feature that Adobe was planning, and I hope that it will be corrected with the first ID6 update. It's very frustrating, isn't it? I've decided to export ePubs from ID5.5 instead, which works as intended.

  • July 8, 2012 at 11:47 am #62573
    Anonymous

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    Another work-around (if the same styles are in use) is to extract the CSS file from a “good” version and link to it during export.

    Or, edit the CSS directly with Sigil or Calibre after export.

    At least until Adobe gets around to fixing the glitch.

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