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Old 03-28-2013, 11:38 AM   #1
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InDesign to ePub: Preflight question about "char width"

Hi guys,

I'm working on a 300 pages book that is a disaster in InDesign: the guy who made the print version barely used any style. That means, yes, that I have to do correctly the formatting all over again to get a decent ePub export. I finished that annoying part. Usually, at this point, I use Preflight to spot all the manual overrides in a document. The profile I use is supposed to ignore kerning and tracking overrides. But, I still end up with 971 errors spotted by Preflight, and almost all of them say: "(char width: 97%; tracking: -10)".

I'm using InDesign CS6, by the way. And I'm kind of an InDesign n00b: I usually try to get out of it as quickly as possible and work directly in the ePub.

So my question is: what is this "char width: 97%" thingy? Is there any way for me to remove this for the whole book at once? That way I could get Preflight errors down to under 100 and finally be able to see the real errors I gotta do something about.

Thanks in advance,

Michael
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