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September 6, 2016 at 7:40 am in reply to: EPUB Triangles of paragraph lists are not kept when exporting in ePub #88181
Aaron Troia
ParticipantI’m not sure how to do it from an InDesign export, but if you were to unzip your ePub you could insert a list-style-image attribute into your list class to include a triangle image that would/should replace the standard bullets. You also might have to play with the image size and alignment to get it to look right.
If you’re really adventurous, you could try this li:before CSS trick for using a specific embedded font glyph, I’m not sure if its supported anywhere but it might be worth a try to check: https://codepen.io/mburnette/pen/rdGJc
Anyway, hope that helps,
Aaron
ParticipantJim,
I hope you kept a copy of the files that werent working, I tend to do so, and later try and go back and revisit them when I have time to see if I can’t get the issue resolved. Anyway, hopefully next time you dont have any issues.
Aaron
ParticipantThe best way to strip superfluous code from InDesign export is to use your own custom CSS and not export InDesign CSS. It’s still not perfect, espically on italic and bold type inline tags which InDesign does not export without a class, which drives me crazy. I know that still might not be easy to do in your case, but just thought I would pass it on.
Aaron
ParticipantI’m not sure how or what order InDesign exports style sheets in, but one work around that might work is saving that CSS in a custom stylesheet and importing it when you need it on export. Anyway I havent tried it, but thought it might work.
Aaron
ParticipantI’m not sure if this is possible in a reflowable EPUB, since content moves around, there really isnt a “top of the page” or margins to put something like what you’re talking about. It might be possible to do in fixed layout, but I’m just speculating and unsure of how to go about doing it.
Aaron
ParticipantOh that’s a pain and annoying, and yes, iBooks sees the two files as the same and just calls up the cached CSS, from the previous file. I’ve been giving each output a unique name (I have a UNIX workflow that zips and renames the files), usually with the time and date, and so far haven’t had any issues. So try changing the file name before you sync or upload to Dropbox and if you’re still having that issue try changing the time/date in the OPF.
Aaron
ParticipantMy first thought would be using data merge. I use it for books that have been scanned, merged into a PDF and need to be replaced into InDesign page by page for one reason or another. You would have to export all the PDF pages as single files and then create a CSV with the image path and copyright info lines, then data merge them into an InDesign document. It would still be a decent project getting all the info into the CSV but once there would be a solid database and info could be changed fairly easily later.
Aaron
ParticipantDwayne,
As someone who is in a similar position to you (I share print with a coworker but I do all the ebooks), I use Keep Together and havent noticed it causing issues on export.
But I agree with the having the overkill paragraph style list, when you have your paragraph styles mapped to a stylesheet, it makes it so much smoother of an export if everything has a paragraph style and isnt using style overrides because those dont come through when you export to a custom stylesheet and dont generate any of InDesigns CSS. Yes it’s overkill, but it saves tons of time on the back end, especially when you’re doing both.
Aaron
ParticipantDuncan,
Unfortunately no, there isn’t a way to change InDesign export to use different measurements. I use a custom stylesheet for all my ebook exports and prefer it, with the custom CSS I know exactly how my export is going to turn out and can modify and adjust anything that needs adjustment afterwards, but I know that’s not everyones way to do things. I wish we could use em’s in InDesign, it would make adjusting multiple paragraph styles (using Based On) on the fly so much easier.
Aaron
ParticipantJohn,
I dont know if you found a solution to your image stretching issue, but I think I have run into this issue and I think Kevin Callahan addresses a similar issue with InDesign export CSS causing image sizing issues that might work for you, it does require unzipping the ePub and rezipping it, but I think it should fix your images from stretching on you.
Aaron
ParticipantRaphael,
This most likely has to do with the image hight exceeding the screen size. Take a look at your images and see if the height exceeds 800px, as a rule of thumb I tend to shrink all my images to 800px on the longest axis (so landscape images would be at max 800px wide, portrait images would be 800px max tall) to both save file size and keep this from happening. Anyway, make a copy of the originals and try making the images smaller and that should hopefully take care of this. Let me know if that helps (or not)!
Aaron
ParticipantElizabeth,
I really havent used the Chapter number variable and the times I’ve tried to play with it hoping that it would work, I ended up more confused as why it didnt work like I felt it should (probably because I dont use the Book feature in InDesign). It seems that Variables are only included in Find and not Replace so maybe they arent supported in the Replace field. That’s odd, but the only thing I can think of.
This might be a little in a different direction, but this article seemed like it might be helpful, or at least along the same lines. They are using the Chapter number but within paragraph styles, mainly bullets and numbering, with the Text faux-GREP which actually surprised me because I never thought to use bullets and numbering this way.
https://blog.rockymountaintraining.com/adobe-indesign-numbering-chapters-subheads-tables-figures/
March 9, 2016 at 10:18 am in reply to: Em Space, possible to define in Paragraph Styles, Indents and Spacing #82775ParticipantClament,
Unfortunately no, there is no way to use Em’s in InDesign like in CSS. I would love it if it did though, I would be using Em’s a lot if were integrated into paragraph and character styles.
Aaron
ParticipantHey Cindy,
No it’s not possible to add anything in GREP styling as there is no replace field, it only allows you to apply styles to your GREP query.
Aaron
ParticipantElizabeth,
I’m not sure what GREP you’ve used so far but try
Find:
(Chapter )\d+
Replace:$1~HThat will find each instance of Chapter followed by a number (if you have a hard return after you could throw in a lookahead
(?=\r)right after the \d+ in Find) and will reinsert Chapter and the space (from the capture group in the Find field) and replace the digit with the ~H chapter variable.Hopefully that works, let me know if you have any issues.
Aaron
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