Quote:
Originally Posted by st_albert
+1 on the InDesign rant.
I solve that problem in ID before exporting, by, for example, searching for all italic character strings and applying an appropriate named character style to them. Repeat for bold, etc. as needed. Then select the entire document and "clear all overrides."
Follow up with a severe lecture to whoever created the ID file in the first place, requesting that they never use local formatting overrides. They'll probably make YOU the new internal book designer.  |
We are the formatters for a number of print-layout houses--they can't abide the idea of making eBooks (for the amounts paid for eBooks), and we're always happy to do it. However, boy-o-boy-o, do we get some DOOZY INDD formatting.
When we establish a relationship with a print-layout house, we'll go through their first few, and make suggestions. However, there are some that come to us and we charge them as though we are making the file from PDF, rather than an INDD set, because the clean-up is just...ridiculous. As kat7 noted, once you start seeing "char-overrides" in the 60's, 70's, etc...it makes your eyes bleed.
Yes, a computed-style creator WOULD Be nice. That, and someone paying off my mortgage. I figure that they have about equivalent chances of actually happening, but just in case Santa was reading this thread, I'll plus-1 this. ;-)
(
I must admit though: we do most of our INDD-export cleanups in Epsilon, not Sigil. Sorry, but there it is.)
Hitch