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Originally Posted by Ryn
Yup. For linking an extensive and essential index, created outside of indesign and which indesign does not recognize.
Edit: not one index in fact but dozens, in a big project.
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You don't. There isn't any easy or magic or automatic way to export the RPNs (Real Page Numbers). You create them manually.
You open up the ePUB; you open up the PDF. You find the first page-end. You search for that bit of text--typically, 5-10 characters will do. When you find it, you create the anchor, like P01, P02, etc.
Then, after all the anchors are done: then you write a script if you're lucky--or do it manually if you aren't--that links all the index entries that go to page 1, to P01, all the index entries that go to P02, to 2 and so forth.
That's it. Knowing Tex, he has some mad coding that will do some of this more easily than I've described, but that's the fundamental process, right there. And it's entirely possible that there are Sigil or Calibre addins that already do the 2nd part, the linking part, that I don't know about, as my band of Merry Minions use our internal, proprietary clips/programs to do that.
That's the basic procedure.
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