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• • January 22, 2013 at 11:22 am #63989
    Marty Safir

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    This has been a toughie for me so I'm soliciting help from the great minds here. I wish to have the html toc for my epub to be on its own page when viewing it on iPad, et al, but I cannot get it to work.

    I am using InDesign CS6 8.0.1 on Mac OS X Lion

    • I have my ID pub in one long file
    • I have no other TOC in the pub
    • I've successfully split document using a few different paragraph styles
    • The nav.ncx creates just fine
    • However, the html toc does not want to split document so it's on its own page

      • I've used an existing para style with tag 'split document' that works elsewhere
      • I've created a specific para style with an export tag to split document
      • I've moved the html toc to different pages and it always wants to run into the page before it
      • I've put an extra line above the Table of Contents heading with a nbsp with its own para style that has export tag split document

    I have watched Anne-Marie's terrific “InDesign CS6 to ePub…” video at Lynda.com. In particular, the lesson “Adding a Custom TOC as First Page of ePub File,” I noticed that at 5:39 and again at 7:50 the same thing occurs upon export to ePub. The html toc runs into the page above!

    Is this a bug?

    How can I get the html toc on its own page (i.e. its own xhtml file) without using Calibre or Sigl?

    TIA, for anyone's help.

    Best,

    Marty Safir

  • January 22, 2013 at 11:25 am #63990
    Marty Safir

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    I meant to write the “toc.ncx” works just fine.

  • January 22, 2013 at 11:44 am #63991
    Marty Safir

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    I'm having a conversation with myself :-)

    I used the page-break-before:always in the CSS for that style and it did work fine on the iPad.

    Hopefully it'll work when I export to Kindle. I shall report back.

  • January 22, 2013 at 6:07 pm #63994
    Marty Safir

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    The html toc does appear on its own page on all Kindle devices that I tested, thank goodness (using Kindle Previewer). I guess the upshot is, why would InDesign not split the pub based on the the Object Export split pub setting on this one page and work just fine throughout the rest of the pub? Strange.

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