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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
To be honest, I would have skipped the PDF step altogether and just exported an ePub from InDesign (if I was using InDesign). Then used Sigil or a text editor to tweak the ePub and feed the ePub to Kindle Previewer.
PDF is a destination format... and a final destination at that. It's hard to imagine a worse source format than PDF.
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I think I explained my workflow incorrectly. I made the INDD in Indesign and designed it with a PDF in mind. None of my objects were anchored - I used a lot of local override styles etc (I had no prior experience with Indesign so I didn't know these were not good practices).
Worked great for the PDF, but then when I exported the INDD to EPUB it was a total mess. So I payed a company $100 to convert it for me, and they left it an even worse mess.
Not wanting to spend more money on unusable services, I went back, cleaned up the INDD and finally got it to the point that I could export a n EPUB that I could work with. Now I'm in Sigil working with the HTML and CSS (which I am far more familiar with than Indesign).
I didn't actually convert the PDF to EPUB. So, I think I followed the workflow you suggest, I just didn't know how to use Indesign properly to avoid a ton extra work.
I sell the PDF on my website. I didn't realize that 1. Indesign is great for PDFs but you need special knowledge to make it work for EPUB, and 2. Amazon doesn't let you sell PDFs. I didn't even know that an EPUB was basically a little website... otherwise I could have saved myself a bunch of time and started with Sigil!
A lot of resources for blogger self publishers (I mean like ProBlogger, CopyBlogger etc.) tell you to create PDF ebooks. But they don't tell you that you won't be able to sell it anywhere but your own website in that format.