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Paula-59 · 01-30-2016, 09:06 PM

Hi:

When I ran a check on my epub in Calibri I get a message saying one of the files in the spine is "non-linear" and it asks if it should fix it. This particular file is giving me grief -- I can't get the page content to appear in the flow properly. It should be the second-to-last page of the book but keeps showing up last, even when the TOC has it second-to-last. I always select "fix what it can" and it does and then says there's no problems but the page still remains in the wrong place. What does the "non-linear in the spine" mean? (It says some readers won't read it or will read it in the wrong place -- but why??? It's an html file with no syntax errors.)

Thanks for any help!

01-30-2016, 09:06 PM	#1
Paula-59 Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2016 Device: none	File is non-linear -- what does that mean? Hi: When I ran a check on my epub in Calibri I get a message saying one of the files in the spine is "non-linear" and it asks if it should fix it. This particular file is giving me grief -- I can't get the page content to appear in the flow properly. It should be the second-to-last page of the book but keeps showing up last, even when the TOC has it second-to-last. I always select "fix what it can" and it does and then says there's no problems but the page still remains in the wrong place. What does the "non-linear in the spine" mean? (It says some readers won't read it or will read it in the wrong place -- but why??? It's an html file with no syntax errors.) Thanks for any help! Last edited by Paula-59; 01-30-2016 at 09:08 PM.