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Steve Carlson
MemberAgree with the prior comment, but I have no problem with kindle. In my books, I like to have the small image first before the visible chapter title, which causes havoc with the TOC because it does not know where to go exactly. So, I do something similar to the previous comment. I put a duplicate chapter title in white above the image (using a particular “toc” specified Paragraph style and then put my image followed by the visible chapter title. You could do something similar. Now course, if someone using a Kindle, for example, changes the color to “white on black” or to sepia, it will show up. To address this, I will often output the file to the epub, break it open, go and find that specific Chapter title text in each file and delete it. The TOC still works amazingly well, and there is no number to show up if someone changes the color to sepia. The only real draw back is, it is very tedious to do that for each chapter, but such is life. I have no problem with mobi files because I use 3 different TOCs. I do not know if the previous commentor does that or not. But I have one TOC for Paperback (on one layer), I have another for what I call ‘in epub’ (on a second layer), and a third one I call ‘outside epub,’ which refers to the one that Kindle will use in their player. The third one is not actually in the epub at all. Then, I designate the ‘outside epub’ one when I output it to epub, before throwing it in the Kindle Previewer. Works like a charm, but just a bit tedious.
MemberOk, that was a big problem I had/have and how I dealt with it. I have an hourglass image that I like to have above the roman numeral chapter title, but I could not get the toc to work. So i HAD to have the roman numeral first, but I did not want that. This is what I figued out. Not sure if it is the most elagent way, but it works. In InDesign I made a paragraph style for the roman numerals and put the color as white so you could not see it. Then I type the roman numerals at the top of the page when a chapter started and, like normal, used that paragraph style in the toc. You can stop there if you want, but I didn’t want people to see 2 sets of the chapter number if they read in black/white or sepia.
So, what I did was output the epub, crack it open, and remove the first set of chapter number text at the beginning of each chapter. (The toc will still work.) Then I reassemble it and make it a mobi. It is kind of a pain having to remove the chapter titles in each file, but you get used to way to looks in the cracked open epub and you can quickly find it.
I suppose you do not need to make the text white if you are just going to remove it, but if you miss one, you don’t have to worry it will look weird, unless the trade reader is using sepia our B&W.
Works pretty well as a work around. Hope that helps.
May 4, 2015 at 12:53 pm in reply to: Mobi- How to get image to show up at front of chapter when clicking on TOC. #75158MemberThank you. I purchased that issue and it helped a lot.
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