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Originally Posted by verydeepwater
One advantage with Indesign is that it will create the opf file for you - listing all the files and images, and if you make a table of contents in indesign, it will make the toc.xhtml and toc.ncx files. Also the code is a lot better than that created by Word.
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Respectfully, I'm going to disagree on that. Yes, IF the InDesigner is intimately familiar with eBooks, like you, perhaps, or Liz; but not what we see. I've seen books with so many 'char-override" styles that we literally had to design tables just to keep track of what the InDesigner MEANT, and that was almost the least of our issues.
And nobody seems to keep an eye on the endless spans. Both programs are
careless, to some extent, about using spans for various styles, but I've seen so many horrible "can't you just export to ePUB for me for $25" InDesign files that I'll take Word over it most any day. At least in Word, I can clean it with a modicum of effort; but the time spent figuring out what "char-override-61" was intended to do...that's honking.
(And vis-a-vis spans: we're pretty sure that we've uncovered that KDP has a "span limitation." A point at which the book will simply stop doing what the spans tell it to do. I'm composing an email for ECR now, about it, and my Tech Account Manager, but....hmmmmmm.)
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