You are absolutely right to be disappointed, erickp. ePub is actually great for novels and other “linear flow” types of documents. But it's not really appropriate for magazines, catalogs, and most other non-linear designs.

I did a presentation on this at the Print and ePublishing Conference last week. Basically, my conclusion was that epub was just one of five different ways to publish to the iPad. Perhaps I should write that up as a blog post… would that help?

I like your idea here, valedot! Interesting… search for any character and replace with what's on the clipboard!

You are absolutely right to be disappointed, erickp. ePub is actually great for novels and other “linear flow” types of documents. But it's not really appropriate for magazines, catalogs, and most other non-linear designs. 

I did a presentation on this at the Print and ePublishing Conference last week. Basically, my conclusion was that epub was just one of five different ways to publish to the iPad. Perhaps I should write that up as a blog post… would that help?

I like your idea here, valedot! Interesting… search for any character and replace with what's on the clipboard!

That's a hard problem. InDesign won't let you thread anchored objects. Sorry. I would suggest looking at some of the automation tools at https://in-tools.com/plugins.ht….. 

Perhaps they have something that would help automate the layout? 

Which buttons don't work?

If one is a mailto link, make sure you are using the most recent version (6.04 or 6.05). I know an earlier version had troubles with mailto links working in SWF files.

Yes, recosoft's PDF2ID is the best bet for this. It's very good!

I believe Adobe's epubs almost always give that error when you embed fonts. Frustrating. The whole font embedding thing is a major problem in epubs anyway, as most readers don't honor them.