Thanks! We have only four seemingly minor problems to solve before we are finished. Make that three.

We must have missed the video (doesn’t seem possible) that discusses the fact the internal TOC can’t be in the text flow when exporting to epub. It gets a bit confusing because David talks mainly about print and you have a tutorial devoted to epub.

I honestly can’t remember either indicating that the internal TOC has to its own story. I’m guessing my memory is faulty.

Frustrating stuff happens in Indesign. We have a chapter heading (#3 of only 6) that has the same paragraph style as every other chapter heading. But it consistently won’t export in that style. We have tried a slew of please work to no avail.

We have a second book, all text. At the end of the project the client asked for narrower margins. Several videos later in which it is made to look so simple, some pages change and others don’t, mostly they don’t. They are all master pages.

I would like to believe those type of things are pilot error because that would allow me to keep the faith that with enough experience/understanding, crazy shit would stop happening.

Mark

Thank you for listening and pointing in the right direction.

I cannot say why but this time both images anchored inline. We did remove a page break before ???

Wow. Time to move forward…

Mark

The images are showing up in the articles panel because I put them there hoping they would export in that sequence. You are right, they are not anchored which we are desperate to do…

Note: we originally took the client’s Word file and then laid it out in Indesign for POD. That turned out great. There are several tables, charts, and images in this document most of which we are converting to jpg.

We do have (12) 4″ square images two in each chapter that we anchored in-line that work perfectly. It is the full-page images that are a challenge. Also currently those two pages are out of the text flow.

I now will focus on anchoring the full-page images but that strategy seems to need a work-around since a blank page doesn’t have text to anchor it to. We have tried adding a small text frame with a paragraph break without success and a couple other similar stunts.

The text was imported as one long document. Right now the text flows around these two particular full-page articles. What you said above makes sense, they are setting there alone and not included in the text flow. Although up until now I thought by including them in the Articles Panel that would force the appearance in the epub at that point. Okay, scratch that thought.

There is something peculiar going on that I can’t see or don’t understand. For this morning’s challenge I tried to re-flow the text in and out of the two frames with the full page images. That opened a wild can of worms of text flowing over the images. So then I took the images out, let the text flow “naturally” and went back and tried to anchor the two full-page images (shift+slide “blue box”) next to the paragraph break we want to anchor it to. That caused the text to stop flowing after the two images (the next 50 pages). I am still shaking my head in disbelief.

Any suggestion(s) would be greatly appreciated.

btw… I took Nigel French’s advice and made the title page, copyright and dedication page into full-page images. I placed those in the Articles Panel (they are not anchored)and they show up correctly in the epub file. Those first three pages are also in the text flow which keeps me thinking that is key. But why it works on those first three pages and not the two full-page images mid-way through the text flow that are not anchored (even though I placed them in the Articles Panel)confuses me.

I can’t anchor as part of the document and I can’t anchor them in the text flow. Totally screwed.