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• • July 20, 2016 at 3:30 pm #86645
    Spencer Stewart

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    The Lynda.com course by Anne-Marie Concepción, “InDesign CC: EPUB Fundamentals,” was incredibly helpful for my first attempt at self-publishing an e-book of a print book. On my Mac, I export my book file from InDesign CC 2014 as a reflowable EPUB 3, and it looks and functions perfectly in iBooks (desktop and iDevices). I use Kindle Previewer to convert to MOBI, and almost everything is right in Kindle.

    I used Table of Contents Styles to dynamically generate a TOC, which is functioning perfectly across platforms within the text flow. On my Kindle for Mac desktop app, the button on the left column, which expands to show the TOC, is displaying my first two levels (chapter number and chapter title, but not sub-headings), and linking to them properly. However, in the Go To button in the app menu bar, clicking Table of Contents takes me to Location 2, a blank page after the title page and before the copyright page (which doesn’t normally show up when clicking forward).

    Is there something I can do in InDesign that will correctly set the guide item that directs the app to the actual HTML TOC page? Or do I have to crack open the EPUB, add code, and zip it back up before I convert to MOBI? If so, what file do I amend, and what code do I add where?

    Also, the Go To button for Beginning jumps to the title page. Is it possible to set this to jump to the book’s Introduction?

    Thank you in advance for any help you can offer!

  • July 21, 2016 at 1:57 am #86653
    Kai Rübsamen

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    Hi Spencer,

    you need a second toc for kindle on your real document page. If you click on the go to button, the navigation jump to this toc, and not to the reader toc!

    Additional to that, you need a guide section. Something like that:

    <guide>
       <reference href="file.htm" title="Cover" type="cover"/>
       <reference href="file.htm" title="Title Page" type="title-page"/>
       <reference href="file.htm" title="Table Of Contents" type="toc"/>
       <reference href="file.htm" title="Start Reading" type="text"/>
    </guide>
    

    You can create this second toc with InDesign, but the guide-section must be added manually in the content.opf-file.
    If you work with InDesign CC 2015 most oft the entries in the guide-section are created from InDesign during the export.

    best
    Kai

    • July 8, 2017 at 3:05 pm #95948
      Spencer Stewart

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      Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. There was a mistaken href for the toc type in the guide in content.opf (dunno why), but when I fixed that, it still wasn’t working in Kindle. When I fixed it in the Landmarks section of toc.xhtml (and added href=”Intro—The-I-AM.xhtml”>Start of Content), then Kindle finally clicked to the right places.

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