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Originally Posted by KevinH
Yes, a page per file. That said, why does InDesign not simply position an entire text line or text box instead of positioning every single word?
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Because it's fixed-layout. You haven't
lived until you've tried to deep-dive a fixed-layout ePUB from INDD, especially one like this.
The only way forward that I see is to
SIGNIFICANTLY clean up the HTML and the CSS, so that all the unnecessary cruft that is usually exported is eliminated, and conforming the html elements that don't need their own names, etc.
I realize that this next comment will (likely) be unhelpful--but I wouldn't do this book in FXL, either. If you've used images for the myriad formulae, then it's unnecessary. It's only necessary for math/science textbooks, when you are using formulae, or MathML, etc., rather than images. Once you have images--
why use FXL?
I'm sure you'll respond that that's what the client wants; we deal with this all the time. I usually take a pdf of the book and put it on their smartphone, and then ask them
exactly how many people are going to want to read this
tome of magnificence, one pinch-zoom/pan/scan at a time, and that typically cures them of such an idea.
My own OT rant about FXL:
Hitch