Finally figured this out. There was a hidden + in the style of one line of the ToC, only becoming visible when I selected the whole line. When I cleared the overrides for that line, the unwanted space above the line disappeared. All good.

Thanks Sandee for your customary thoroughness! For some reason I wasn’t auto-notified about this post, so completed the job thinking that no one had responded. I more or less followed your suggestions, however: https://indd.adobe.com/view/fd31966a-d1e5-4a08-a33f-4b3467b4a0b0

However, I am still interested in how far your ingenuity stretches to propose an equivalent to website pages which can only be linked to and back from with buttons/hyperlinks. My client wanted to present a slim report (46pp in total), while hiding additional pages from the main structure which could only be linked to from ‘landing’ pages — pp 33, 39 and 40 in the report. But of course a pdf ‘tips its hand’, telling anyone reading that there are actually 85pp in total.

(You may notice that I based my interactive pdf’s navigation on InDesign Magazine’s former design, which I far prefer to the current iteration in terms of easy navigability.)

Thanks Aaron. I’ll apply myself to it!

Thanks for your reply Aaron. To answer your queries: yes, I am using Split Document for the beginning of each chapter. But in addition I am using it where a subheading is immediately followed by an image. I don’t want the subhead to appear by itself somewhere on one page, and the image to appear at the top of the next page, so I used the only tool I understand I have to force the subhead onto the following page, where it can be followed directly underneath by the image. But the downside of this approach is the endnote issue I described.

My query was whether I have any alternatives to the Split Document option which could solve my endnote clumping problem but still put the text I want at the head of a page. You mention doing it by coding after export — can you elaborate on this or point me to a helpful online resource?

I am definitely not applying Split Document to either the endnotes or a paragraph style after a footnote.

My second query had to do with the anomalous way my endnotes sometimes display (see screen capture: https://www.dropbox.com/s/7fvi822tsv34z6w/Screenshot%202016-12-02%2010.19.57.png?dl=0 ) Normally they appear in an orderly way running from the top of a fresh page — but occasionally they don’t. Can you advise how I can ensure a chapter’s endnotes always start on a fresh page, rather than running on immediately after the final paragraph of a chapter’s text, as in the screen capture example.

Muchas gracias

Chris

Thanks Michele. I was struggling with why certain text fields displayed a red keyline in Acrobat while all the others (theoretically identical in format) didn’t. But since then I’ve found that there are no red key lines visible in the final pdf version I created. So maybe it was simply a transitory display issue . . . ?

Correction: Further to the above – I shouldn’t have used the term “cross references” given that it has a specific meaning in InDesign. What I actually meant was that I would need to manually create footnotes throughout the book by finding all current superscript references and then copying and pasting from the existing endnotes the corresponding footnote for each one. Once completed I can output a reflowable epub with either the popup notes or endnotes option selected.

OK — thanks David — no panel I hadn’t found with the answer to my question, then. I suppose I could supply the form page as a separate file, but there ought to be a way to limit the amount of the file which is actually submitted. Another feature request, maybe!

On another related matter, I note that the text fields are all formatting entered text left aligned. Is there a way of changing that default to make the entered text display centre or right aligned inside each text field box?

Thanks Aletabird. I appreciate the workaround info (though I think it would drive me to distraction having to outline everything on the page in order to make Satero Sans work for me — there MUST be a better way . . .)

Sorry about the link. Here’s the Revised Standard Version, which I hope will work for anyone:
https://www.hightail.com/sharedFolder?phi_action=app/orchestrateSharedFolder&id=kUM1AOR_COF3ulHDKEGYcIGnApu9rZhJvnImAB9pCAk

My prepress manager at the printer was away from work Friday, so I’m waiting to hear from him on Monday, and will post again once he has had a chance to investigate.