Hi Ken,

Thank you for your response. After much trial and error I found out that if I didn’t include the cover image in the EPUB export options, everything worked fine. For some reason, by adding the cover image file there, it was messing everything up. I’m getting the file ready to convert to a Mobi, so I’m hoping that when uploading, there will be a spot where I can upload the cover image that will be seen on the site.

I appreciate your help!

Thank you,

Jordan

Hi Aaron,

The EPUB that was created in CS4 was successfully converted to Mobi using Kindle Previewer. Originally we used a unique font for a drop cap that was not transferring over when creating an EPUB, so we created an image of that font as a drop cap and anchored them into the correct position. With nighttime viewer now available in most EPUB readers, you can see the white outline of the text box that holds the drop cap. So, what we’re trying to do is create a drop cap, but the stubborn issue as it stands now is preserving any dropcap once it’s converted either to an EPUB or Mobi file. I’ve been reading up on it all night and watching a myriad of tutorials about preserving dropcaps when converting but I’m not having any success. I’ve even downloaded the new InDesign CC to see if that would help, but still no luck.

Do you have any thoughts? Again, greatly appreciated!

Thanks for the responses! Just to clarify Aaron, are you saying that you export from the newest version of InDesign CC or are you exporting from CS4 as well and getting the good results by using the latest version of KindleGen? This is looking like it may work after all.

J

Thank you so much for the information. That's what I was afraid of

I had downloaded the CS5.5 trial to see if it was worth it for ePub but to be honest I'm still having the same trouble in CS5.5 that I was in the my CS4 full version.

Jordan

Anne-Marie,

Thank you for the response. I have tried adding space before and space after, but it does not seem to work.

I'm seriously considering just upgrading to CS5.5. Would you say that 5.5 is that much better and easier to create a good looking ebook?

I find that with CS4, I'm having this jpeg centering problem, as well as a couple of other issues that I'm hoping are easier to do with CS5.5

Thanks again for the input,

Jordan

Thank you for the advice and input. I was unaware of the font limitations in epub format!

Thanks so much for the response!

I was afraid of that. So, I started doing this, and I've encountered a little issue that you may know how to fix.

I did a save as and deleted everything that came after Chapter 1 without any problems. But when, I I try and delete any of the pages before Chapter 1 (the preface, copyright page, etc) it starts to shift the pages forward. What I mean by that is when I delete a page,(again, anything before chapter 1) it gets rid of the page but moves all the wording forward, so that the last page of chapter 1 disappears.

I think I need to unlink something, but I'm having trouble figuring it out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm so lost…

Thanks again,

Jordan

Hey there! Sorry it has taken me so long to get back to this. Been out of town and all that jazz…

From what I can tell it is the effect (mostly) that is getting jagged. Are you onto something??

Thanks for all of the help,

Jordan