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Old 07-09-2019, 11:03 AM   #5
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As everyone here has already explained, you're trying to bake a cake with a hot rock and dirt and leaves. You're using the wrong tools for the job and unfortunately for you, every single iota of work you've put in has been wasted.

IF you are going to edit your fixed-layout ePUB--which you really should not attempt, until you've done a few more hundred books--you risk really screwing up the layout. On top of that, you need proper software to do that with; I guess Dreamweaver is okay, but it's not meant for eBooks, either.

Lastly, do you know how to make an SMIL file? And what you're going to need to do, to make a read-along for iBooks, which I presume is the intended vendor? That's a rather massive task, especially if you don't have any existing clips, programs, etc. to assist you.

I'm sorry that you've wasted so much time on this, because what you've done isn't salvageable. Make your edits in INDD, not in the HTML. You change a single word, a single letter and you can wreak havoc on the entire book, having not done this before.

I have to ask--why on earth were you editing the layout, anyway? What was it you were trying to achieve that you didn't do in INDD?

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