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Originally Posted by davidchavez
wow, thanks a lot all for your comments. I will try them all. I am really new to all this stuff and your comments help a lot to know what to try next and that I am not alone with this manual process.
@Hitch, yes I know what you mean. Unfortunately I have tried the indd conversion to epub and given the files that I have been given, the process took me a lot more time than to copy/paste from PDF and work from there. I have seen that an indd file has to have everything in order and a very clean file so that the export work fine, even after doing the normal fine-tuning before export. So, I was dedicating more time to fine-tune everything and it was not very effective. Unfortunately for me, I cannot ask the team that creates the indd to be more cautious about this, so that is why I try to do it like this  |
What concerns me a bit is you SEEM to be trying to do everything in a WYSIWYG manner. Are you? You didn't know what the line-spacing issue was, which says to me that you're trying to do this in bookview, or something similar. That's NOT going to work.
If you have a novel in INDD, maybe, maybe, you can get to an ePUB/MOBI in a WYSIWYG manner, kinda. But not non-fiction. And not with the results you're getting, in which EVERY line is a new paragraph. Do you see what I'm saying?
Of course the file has to have "everything" in order to work. That's why you have them give you the INDD package files, not simply the .indd file itself.
If you're going to go around it this way, you may as well export the INDD to faux-Word, "story by story" instead of the entire file, and then make an ebook from Word. Unless you're doing hidden work here, that we're not seeing, I worry a bit about the output you're generating.
Hitch