A couple new facts.

First, it IS actually photo showing that should be hidden. Just happens that the one I took the screenshot of was created with a smeared edge somehow. (I didn't make the photos, so I don't know how.)

Second, if I click on the photo with the direct selection tool, then hit the left arrow key once to nudge it slightly to the left, then export it, the problem is gone. There's still hidden photo outside the frame, but it no longer shows up. Can't make the problem happen to other photos by nudging them in any direction, though.

Without the nudge to the left I can still make it go away by unchecking the 'crop image data' box.

On the subject of book styles or whatever they should be called (which idea, if no plugin exist for it yet, I'd be happy to sell for a reasonably exorbitant rate!), there could be a choice in the style definition dialog asking “Should this change affect all files in the book or only this file?” OR, there could be a list of the book's files and the option to put a check mark by the ones that should share the change to the style. OR, as I said in the first post, above, groups of files within a book could be designated as style groups, which all share a set of styles and whenever a style is changed in one file the same change happens to the rest of the files in the group (perhaps with the question I mentioned.

And as long as I'm designing my wish-fulfilling plugin or feature set, let me add that master pages, swatches and every kind of style (character, paragraph, object, cell, etc.) could also be included in this.

Another benefit to having styles and such housed in some sort of master list outside the files was revealed to my annoyed self today when I had to go through a bunch of files and delete dozens of swatches and a few defunct styles from each one. Couldn't just select all unused and delete them, because there were many that weren't in use but might be used. And of course the swatches weren't named anything intelligible. It was a pain. If there was just one list that applied to all the files in the book, it would have taken less time and been less annoying.

I should stop daydreaming and get back to work on the book in question. Or quickly learn how to write plugins, create this one, and then have dinner.

Thought of that. They don't have it.

Thanks.

The Dropbox thing sounds great! I use Dropbox all the time, but never realized it could handle something like this. Definitely going to try that out.

Thanks,

Olaf

Thanks for the link, because it reminded me there were some other things I wanted to look up there. I had already read what it had to say about epub, but it's not quite what I'm looking for. It lays out the process, which looks pretty much like it is in CS3 and CS4 (though I'm not all that experienced with it, haven't internalized all the steps yet, and might have missed differences).

What I'd like to read is something about how well it does everything, what works better than before, what's been streamlined or added. Basically, I'd like a report from someone who's taken a few books through the process in CS5 and can compare it to their experiences doing the same thing with CS4 and/or CS3.

Thanks again,

Olaf