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Originally Posted by slowsmile
@blackest...Wow, it seems that you have to jump through hoops using InDesign on your Mac. I used InDesign for ebooks on Windows for a while in the past. It's still my go to app for imprint books. But not for ebooks. In my opinion I think the Adobe InDesign team added the epub conversion capability as a rushed afterthought because I found that it has too many odd quirks and problems(that you have to know about) whenever you create epubs using InDesign. I switched to using Sigil and have never regretted it. Sigil just gives you more control over your epub formatting.
I hope you find an easier workpath!!
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My starting point was a pdf file pdf2id is kind of able to turn it into an indesign file but its not much good at more than a few pages. I gave it 28 pages to chew on and it couldn't digest it. single art boards do work. But not really good at taking in the text.
I finally got the latest version of UnDesign (a typo but i'll keep it) installed under windows 10. It's text output is still a bazillion rubber bands.
Really , really ugly code. Seems like a dead end.
On the plus side i treated myself to a new external hard drive and i set up sierra and el capitan on there El capitan was from a backup drive so is pretty much fully configured. Ibooks Author is not blowing up when presented with an epub generated from indesign.
One thing I also found was a failure of my conversion process to import words with spaces a lot of the time, so lines of characters not words spell check was able to figure it out about 80% of the time but it is easier just to use preview to pull the text out the pages. That and Text Edit saves a lot of unnecessary work.
So currently I think indesign is good enough for converting image layout only.
I am going to see if iBooks Author will be any better for text layout.
I'm probably going to be forced to use Sigil to add the text and generate templates but we shall see.