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September 2, 2012 at 1:18 pm in reply to: That was scary! What paragraph style caused entire 388 page document to be invisible? #63033
angharad09
ParticipantThis happened to me once, and it turned out that something in the style was making the text too big to fit in any text box in the document — super-large type? leading? paragraph rule? So it traveled forlornly from box to box and couldn't find a home in any of them. If I remember right, even when you can't see it on the page, you can still see it in Story Editor and try to get at it from there. Because of your section break message, this may not be what was happening to you, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.
May 18, 2012 at 12:25 pm in reply to: Pasting from one document to another – Text wrap messes up?? #62203ParticipantI'm not sure what's causing the problem, but I imagine that the fastest way to deal with it would be to create an object style with the text wrap options you want and apply it to the text boxes after you paste them.
You could also look at the Basic Text Frame options in the old and new documents and see if they're different … or whether overrides are being applied in the old version or the new version that might affect the situation … or you could fool around with the different Paste options and see if any of them give you better results. But it's probably easier to just go with option 1. Good luck!
Amanda
ParticipantGood point. I think turning hyphenation on might have helped. Smaller type size or shorter word definitely helped. Unfortunately, these weren't an option in that case. So I understand better for next time … is it just unable to fit the word, and thus pushing it to the next screen and the next screen ad infinitum? (This is getting pretty hypothetical, so I'll understand if there are no further answers. Thanks, guys.)
Participantapologies for the delayed response. no, I used a left-aligned tab.
I lucked out this time — while I was trying to figure it out, the client was deciding they didn't want numbered headings — but I'd still love to know for the future.
thanks,
Amanda
March 15, 2012 at 9:11 pm in reply to: Plain text book endnotes to dynamic endnotes in epub (CS5.5 PC) #61811ParticipantYou're right–my bad. But you want them to show up at the end of each chapter, right? I'm pretty sure that, if the InDesign document has footnotes (not endnotes), when you export to .epub, that's where the notes will go: at the end of each chapter. At least, that's what it's done for me in the small # of e-books I've done. There's no such thing as a (fixed) page in an e-book, so it has to find some sensible place to park the notes. In the export option under “Contents,” as long as you tell it what paragraph style denotes a chapter break, and make sure “place footnote after paragraph” is NOT selected, it should dump them at the end of each chapter. (How to get the numbering to restart for each chapter, I don't know, I've never done it.) Good luck and I hope a more seasoned e-book veteran chimes in soon.
ParticipantThose are great. Thanks very much!
March 14, 2012 at 10:12 am in reply to: Plain text book endnotes to dynamic endnotes in epub (CS5.5 PC) #61796ParticipantNot a power user here, but a couple of ideas —
If you export from InDesign to .epub, the footnote markers should come in “live” and work in both directions (from main text to note and back to main text). Depending on the e-reader, sometimes you get back to the main text by clicking on the note number, and sometimes you get back by clicking on the back arrow, so try both before you decide that your current notes aren't functioning.
You can hand-code the hyperlinks but to me that seems like a lot of work and really easy to screw up. But if you want to try it, a good way to see what the code is is to take an .epub file in which the footnotes are functioning well, and open it in Sigil (or a similar program) and look at the code.
Footnotes are the main reason I use InDesign to make an epub. For a simple (aka boring ;) document, sometimes that's all I use InDesign for — feed it a Word document with live footnotes and ask it to spit out an .epub. Good luck!
ParticipantThanks for the responses. It helps to know that other people are using this process without crashing. When I get some time I will re-install InDesign and see if that makes a difference. Meanwhle, if anybody knows any “don't do this or it will cause a fubar” tips regarding XML, I'd be interested.
I agree with both of you that whatever InDesign exports to EPUB, you still have to edit it in a program like Sigil. But at least it gives you something you can start with and helps you understand how the whole thing is supposed to work. Good fun.
Thanks,
Amanda
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