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MemberDavid,
Many thanks for that helpful reply.Obviously there are some differences between the PC and Mac versions.
I’m quite excited at having a new iMac, my first Apple since my early Apple 2.
Adobes CC licence made it possible for me to migrate from the PC at long last without major expense.MemberHi David,
Yes, I have.I spend all my time creating print books and EPUBs for publishing on Lulu (I’ve been doing that for ten years now, obviously EPUBs for just a couple, since retiring from the UK to live in Spain).
The system I’ve developed is to:
Open the Web pages in my Opera Browser (I’m PC not Mac, and have the full suite of Adobe CC)
View the Souce code for each page and copy that to save as a HTML file.
Open the HTML file in Dreamweaver and do a rough edit to clear out the junk.
Then with Adobe Acrobat 11 convert the HTML file to a PDF.
Open the PDF with Recosoft PDF2ID to create a new INDD.
Then format the new INDD making great use of Paragraph and Character styles, and chopping out surplus stuff that wasn’t got rid of in the initial rough edit.Obviously not fully automated, but well worth the effort to achieve the end results.
Regards, Ken.
MemberMerry Christmas from Sunny Spain.
IDS provided a wealth of help this last year.
I must get to grips with Grep next year.
MemberMerry Christmas from Sunny Spain.
IDS provided a wealth of help this last year.
I must get to grips with Grep next year.
MemberGroup the Image & Caption, Export to JPG, then replace the Group with JPG.
MemberThanks Anne-Marie
MemberThanks.
MemberI had this reply from Iain Robertson on an Adobe Forum. I've not tested this yet as I'm busy, busy, busy!
I think it is a “feature”, although one that flummoxed me to begin with. With the help of this forum I realised what you need to do is open one of your documents and open all your paragraph styles and use the new Export Tagging feature to map your paragraph style to an html tag. You can also add a class name. Do the same for your character styles. Then you have to synchronise the rest of the book with that one document as the source, so the new styles are used through all your documents. Then you have to create your own CSS file to apply style declarations to each tag plus any classes you created. This will mean your Indesign styles will get converted on output to consistent style names in the ePub and then styled by your CSS file. Make sure any class names you add in Export Tagging don't contain any spaces (use hyphens instead) and I think it is best to avoid capitals to be on the safe side.
That worked for me. It was a pain to begin with, compared to how I used to use CS5, but it seems sensible now! Haven't got time to go into more detail now but there is plenty info out there about the Export Tagging feature – make a test file and give it a whirl. I'm not the best person to describe how to make-up your CSS file – I'm making it up as I go along but there's loads of useful info out there about CSS – I particularly recommend w3schools.com (https://www.w3schools.com/css/c….._intro.asp).
MemberWith CS5.5 I too am seeing the files as HTML and not XHTML although I am getting a file for each INDD.
With that and my CSS problems I think CS5.5 is for the trash can.
Ken.
MemberI have a further problem with CS5.5
If a CS5.5. epub is opened in Sigil and a simple edit made such as adding some metadata or adding a semantic then on save/closing the epub the original toc is replaced by one with just a single nav point.
Ken.
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