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Clark Kenyon
ParticipantKDP has lately taken to objecting to endnotes (which in my case they referred to as “footnotes” for some reason) that don’t link back to the text. They provide the html code for creating backlinks in their Kindle Publishing Guidelines, but this would require a lot after the fact code tinkering that defeats the purpose of doing an ePub in InDesign. If you have actual footnotes, the ePub export dialog in InDesign lets you specify whether they appear as popups or at the end of a chapter. I haven’t received any negative feedback from KDP about these, but I have about endnotes that I set up as cross-references. There are several ways to get back to the text when viewing an endnote and it varies depending on the Kindle device/app. I did an experiment with a dummy document, creating the backlinks the way KDP wanted them. I didn’t see any difference between these backlinks and what you get when you export an ePub with cross-references. My suggestion is tell KDP the error they are concerned about is not an issue.
November 17, 2019 at 7:23 pm in reply to: Line spacing disappears in conversion from ePub to mobi #14323691ParticipantTry converting the ePub to .mobi using Kindle Previewer 3. Is the problem still there?
ParticipantSomething you could do which is long and tedious but would probably work is to convert the endnotes to text (you can use this script https://www.kahrel.plus.com/indesign/footnote_endnote_conversion_cc2018.html), then relink them to the note references in the text by using cross-references.
ParticipantWhat ePub reader is this happening with, or does it happen with any ePub reader?
June 24, 2019 at 2:32 pm in reply to: Indesign shows text that doesn't exist in imported Word document #117323ParticipantIs your Word doc multi-column? I had this problem, not with InDesign, but with Word. A client had started with a single column page on which he wrote some text. Then changed to 3 columns. The text did not become visible until I exported the doc to PDF. I fixed it changing the 3 columns to one, deleting the text on the single column, then turning 3 columns back on.
May 19, 2019 at 3:14 pm in reply to: How to remove broken links to word docs that are no longer needed? #116602ParticipantI wonder if the links to Word files isn’t something left over from using Wordsflow. I’m seeing the same thing (links to two Word versions of the book) in an ID doc I’m revising at the moment. It was created back when I was trying out Wordsflow.
ParticipantSorry, I don’t even remember what that was about.
ParticipantThanks. I would be concerned that “invisible” text would become visible once this is exported as an ePub. Putting each abstract text frame on the right side of the spread works ok. It’s just puzzling. Generally, one of the nice things about ID is that when something goes wrong there’s usually a logical reason. I’m just not seeing it here.
ParticipantHi, thanks for responding. TOC1 is on level 1 TOC2 is on level 2, TOC3 is on level 3. Has no effect. The hidden text frames are on the page.
November 30, 2018 at 8:58 pm in reply to: Changing text styles in Tables ruins the whole document !! #111903ParticipantYou might be changing the font size in your table text to something that’s too large to fit in the table cell. If ID can’t display that text, it won’t display anything that follows, so it’s overset.
ParticipantI’ve had this same problem with Kindles created from an ePub exported from CC2018 and run through the Kindle Previewer 3. I put the .mobi in a Dropbox folder, then try to open it on my Kindle Fire with the Dropbox app. It tells me it can’t open because it’s protected by DRM. This happens even if I deselect Include Embeddable Fonts in the export.
ParticipantThanks!
ParticipantIt’s complicated. I am using the method of creating two numbered list styles, where the first level list is not actually numbered, but since it is formatted to “start at 1”, following paragraphs, the real numbered lists (level 2), will automatically restart their numbering. And this book is full of them. I would do this, but my experience has been that the numbering doesn’t always restart as it should in an ePub export. So I would have to export a separate ID doc for the ePub and go through and override the style of every numbered list to restart at 1.
So assume I did these overrides in the original ID doc. Since it’s a print layout, certain other overrides have to be employed for the sake of copyfitting, e.g., changing the keep options on a single paragraph to properly fill out a page or break at a different point on a page, increasing tracking to improve copyfitting. These overrides I would want to remove before the export to ePub as in an ePub such considerations as copyfitting are irrelevant and could affect the flow of the text.
So the question is, how would I clear all overrides but the overrides to the numbered list style?August 24, 2018 at 3:05 pm in reply to: Word imported text has multiple indents but Normal style applied to all #110088ParticipantYou might just have to bite the bullet and restyle all the various bullet points manually, either in Word or InDesign. I usually do this sort of thing in Word, map the styles to ID, then place the Word doc.
ParticipantIt’s not going to work to use a script or even to place the pages as PDFs. They just look too bad. I’ve decided to open each in Photoshop and save as a tif or png, then place that in the ID layout.
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