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Aaron Troia
ParticipantI’m guessing all the kerning and tracking were overriding Paragraph and Character Styles so I might try StyLighter from IndiScripts, it wont fix everything in one swift key press but it will highlight all the text in which the styles have been overridden.
https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2013/11/stylighter-1-4-for-indesign-cs4-cs5-cs6-cc
Aaron
ParticipantYeah, that does happen (you see it a lot on the Kindle), and I agree that it doesn’t look the best. Well apart from unzipping the ePub and playing with the CSS, have you tried using a Character Style for your Superscript and playing with the baseline shift? I’m not sure playing with the leading in the InDesign file will do much as the superscript is more or less pushing your leading down so increasing your leading will just push it down further, I think this is because everything is on the same layer in the CSS. Another option that I have seen used on the Kindle is using brackets to denote footnotes[1] links in the text, though not as pretty, it’s another idea.
ParticipantI’m not sure if that is possible from within InDesign as I don’t think there is a PageList option even in the Kindle plug-in (which hasn’t seen an update since 2012), though I could be wrong. To insert “real” page numbers you will need to go into the code and insert your page numbers as anchors throughout the text at the page break points as well as add all your page numbers to a pageList to the end of the NCX (ePub2.0.1 documentation for pageLists can be found here https://www.idpf.org/epub/20/spec/OPF_2.0.1_draft.htm#TOC2.4.1.2).
Aaron
ParticipantSo I had never exported with XML tags before but I quickly mapped my styles to tags and tried it with the working files I had used from a book I had previously exported to epub and it exported within minutes with no problem (given, the epub didnt look very pretty), but ID5.5 didnt crash on me. Are you embedding any fonts by chance? I know this plagues people in the #eprdctn group on twitter quite a bit from just exporting normally to epub from ID5.5.
Also, with ID5.5 you dont need to break up the file to make the ePub, just generate a TOC with the Para style you are using for your titles and when you export, check the box next to “Break document at Paragraph Style:” and choose the same Para style you generated your TOC with and you will get separated files, a linked ncx, and all the files listed in the opf.
I havent used the article pane before so I cant say whether or not it will work any better for you.
And for reference, I am on a Mac running ID5.5 on OS 10.7.2.
November 23, 2011 at 1:46 pm in reply to: Linespacing issues with italics and boldface in EPUB on Nook Color #61143ParticipantThe Nook definately has some quirks that im not too fond of, have you tried line-spacing:0; in your char style?
Participantyou were on the right track. Delete all references to cover in the opf file (minus your reference to the image and the meta tag that refers to the cover and cover image, but delete the (x)html reference, the spine reference, and the guide reference if you have one) and delete the cover (x)html file as well, you wont need it. Within metadata put the code below in and just replace the cover.jpg with what every your cover name is.
<x-manifest>
<output encoding="utf-8″ content="text/x-oeb1-document"></output>
<embeddedCover>cover.jpg</embeddedCover>
</x-manifest>Aaron
ParticipantUnordered and ordered lists should work but a hack would be to go back to using the bullet/number and wrapping those lines with <p width=”-30″> with about 4-5 non-breaking spaces before the bullet and that width attribute must be inline, it will not work on an external style sheet, this will give you hanging text after the first line of text so the bullet sticks out. Each level of indent you will also need to increase that width by -30 and double your non-breaking spaces. If that sounds like dirty code writing, it's because it is, but it works.
ParticipantAs far as I can understand, you are wanting more margin at the top of page above the chapter titles. If wanting to do this in InDesign you have to mess with “Space Before” in your title paragraph style, if you are editing the space in the style sheet you need to play with the “margin-top” style in your title class. Play with which ever one you prefer using until you get the desired margin above your titles.
ParticipantJust make a character style with a bigger font size in InDesign and assign it to the first letter of the paragraph. Then when you Edit All Export Tags before you export, set the tag as “span” and then just name the class whatever you like. You can always go back and tweak the size in the style sheet if you like.
November 10, 2011 at 2:19 pm in reply to: InDesign version 5.5 epub TOC and image hyperlink issues #61038ParticipantYes InDesign CS5.5 will generate the both TOC's but as far as I know it will not place the HTML TOC into the toc.ncx.
Did you insert the guide reference to the HTML TOC into the content.opf file? when you test it on a Kindle are you able to pull up the HTML TOC from Menu>Go to..>Table of Contents? if so, you dont need to place the HTML TOC into the toc.ncx, the Kindle refers to the HTML TOC for your TOC (and not the toc.ncx) that should be referenced in the guide section of the content.opf.
After you checked “Break Document at Paraph Style:” in the ePub export window, did you also select the style you wanted to break it at?
It is possible to link images, I havent tried it in InDesign, I have hand coded HTML links around images after my ePub was exported from InDesign. check out some of the resources from the eBook Architects website.
If you dont already have them, I would pick up a copy of Kindle Formatting by Joshua Tallent and also Epub: Straight to the Point by Elizabeth Castro
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