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• • January 15, 2013 at 10:16 am #63947
    KimAleksander

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    Hi there,

    In wanting to have better control over a ToC, I thought to use hidden, non-printing text layers to create the ToC entries. There would be one hidden layer per chapter (InDesign document).

    This actually works to make a nice ToC, but the issue is that when exported for Kindle, these hidden layers show up in the book.

    I've tried using white text and no-ink on these, and this does hide them for some versions of Kindle; however, the text is still displayed on older versions.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks,

    Kim

  • January 16, 2013 at 7:03 am #63957
    KimAleksander

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    I'm going to take a shot at answering my own question here and say that it might not be possible to hide text when exporting to an ebook. This seems to only be a feature when exporting to PDF.

    I could be proved wrong, however, and in fact, I'd like to be.

    Regardless, what I wound up doing here is building a custom ToC and used cross-references. I customized the ToC entries by naming the hyperlink destinations what I wanted the ToC entries to look like.

    When exporting for Kindle it's then possible to link to the cross-referenced ToC and have it build properly.

  • September 22, 2013 at 10:07 am #65467
    Anonymous

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    Hello! Great to find your question!

    I’ve been struggling with Indesign & it’s Kindle Plugin for two weeks now and have just ONE (aesthetic) problem remaining: the same problem you described in your initial posting, above!

    I hoped, like you, that I could avoid ToC referents showing in the KindleDX. As you discovered, any referent that is filled with no ink, or with white, or with “paper”, will be drawn into the ToC page that the Kindle creates but won’t show on the page that the entry refers to. (All of the Kindles except the DX model respect the lack of ink with regard to the pages of the e-book.)

    So I had your idea of putting each ToC entry into a text-frame on a separate and hidden layer on the first page of each section of the book, to see if the Kindle Plugin would draw the entries into ToC it generates without reveal them on the first pages of the sections of the e-book. But, as you found, that doesn’t work.

    I’ve tried to understand the way you found around this problem, but I can’t.

    What I’ve got set up at the moment looks great. The only problem is that on the Kindle DX the referents are showing.

    At the start of each section in InDesign I have a small text-box with the appropriate ToC entry in it, for example, “Chapter 1: Awakening”. I highlighted each such referent with the paragraph style “Heading 1”, and then made them invisible by filling them with white. Kindle builds the ToC by going through the InDesign documents and drawing out all the instances where the paragraph style is “Heading 1”. And, fortunately, for all formats except the DX’s it displays the instances in the ToC but not where they occur in the book.

    Can you give me a Dummies list of steps to implement to get round my problem?

    Thanks.

    David.

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