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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHmm it looks like it’s reporting errors that it’s using EPUB 3 validation but it’s an EPUB 2 file.
What edits did you make? Did you ever open it in Sigil perhaps? (I’ve seen Sigil rewrite the file that would cause these exact same errors.)
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHey there James, who is the ebook developer your friend turned to? That’d be an excellent resource to have.
BTW I think you could’ve fixed it by doing batch search-and-replaces, maybe 15-30 minutes work.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberWow that is aggravating.
First, does the epub pass validation? Is it an epub2 or epub3 (assuming it’s 3)
I would not put much weight to what happens to the video in Readium or Firefox. Preview the video as your readers will .. on your iPad or Kobo or whatever you think they’ll be using.
Which version of iOS?
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberWhat errors does Oxygen (or an outside validator) report?
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberSorry, I don’t know of any menu command that will do that, but it could be scripted, perhaps.
Not sure if you’re really using assignments or if you mean InCopy stories. Both appear in the Assignments panel. You don’t check out an assignment, you check out the InCopy stories. (But if you select an assignment name in the panel, and choose Checkout, that’s a shortcut to check out all the stories you’ve grouped into that assignment. Maybe that’s where you’re getting the idea.)
FWIW it’s usually not necessary to create assignments, just export all the stories to InCopy from the Edit > InCopy > Export All Stories command, and then all the InCopy stories appear in the Assignment panel in Unassigned Stories. Some people call those linked InCopy stories “assignments” too. Much confusion here because the name of the dang panel is Assignments. It’d be like calling the Paragraph Styles panel “Style Groups.” The Assignments panel should be called “InCopy Assets” or similar.
okay, end of rant. ;-D
Anyway, bottom line is you have InCopy stories in your Assignments panel. what might be a little bit faster would be to Shift-Click each assignment in the panel so they’re all selected, then click the Check Out icon at the bottom of the panel. That checks out all the stories. Do that for each file.
You might try asking if anyone could script this for you in the Adobe Scripting Forum
https://forums.adobe.com/community/indesign/indesign_scriptingAM
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberThe editors will need to upgrade to InDesign CC. They can subscribe to CC for just that product for $19.99/mo. per seat.
https://creative.adobe.com/join/single_app/year/incopy?promoid=KLXLC
You have to think of InCopy and ID as a single product. They need to be used in unison with the same versions.
Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberNo, don’t create a Document fonts folder inside the Fonts folder. That will only confuse things. What Dwayne said is correct, “I believe the “Document fonts” folder has to be in the same location as your InDesign documents.”
More info in this video:
https://tv.adobe.com/watch/indesign-cs5-feature-tour/document-installed-fonts/Regarding InDesign not recognizing that fonts are loaded, my guess is that you need to rethink how you manage your fonts. I don’t have any fonts in my InDesign > Fonts folder, I let OS X manage them in my User > Library > Fonts folder. Other people use Font Management utilities like Suitcase.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberThe TOC has to be in its own story, contained in its own frame. It can’t be part of the book’s “main flow” of text.
So the pages coming before the TOC have to also be their “own story” … that is, their text frame’s Out Port needs to be empty, no arrow showing there. That way, InDesign looks at the first page/spread, exports the content. No story is threaded to a page that comes after the TOC, so it goes to page 2. Exports. Page 3. Exports. Gets to your TOC page. Exports that story. Gets to the next page … maybe it’s Chapter 1. And here it’s the first frame in a threaded story that spans many pages. So it exports the entire story. Then it goes to page 6 … if the only thing there is the threaded story, which it already exported, it goes to page 7, and so on.
I know I talked about this in my video on Layout Order Export in my InDesign > EPUB vids on lynda. And David has some very good videos in his InDesign Essentials lessons on how to work with threaded stories.
hope that helps!
AMAnne-Marie ConcepcionMemberTom that’s really interesting. What was it about PM, Quark, and Ventura that made it easier? AFAIK “lock to baseline grid” works essentially the same regardless of program.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberHave you found someone Kyra?
You might try posting on with the #eprdctn hashtag on Twitter.
I’m sympathetic with you. Ran into the same thing with a project earlier this year.
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Anne-Marie ConcepcionMemberAnother option would’ve been to split the text flow into two. One text flow stops right before the 2 full-page images. Then the second one starts after the second image, picking up where the first one left off.
As you’ve learned, if images aren’t anchored in the text flow, InDesign exports them after the full story (which begin in the frame/s preceding them in the document) has been exported.
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