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Originally Posted by patrik
I bought a book today that seems to be an Indesign export. Every word has its own formatting. On my ereader there are huge margins, so it's not readable.
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Ideas?
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Yep, like DNSB said, that's a Fixed Layout EPUB.
The way you can tell is InDesign wraps every single individual word in a <span> and absolutely positions it:
Compare to:
Code:
<p class="Drop-Cap ParaOverride-1">“I want you to imagine your reflection [...]</p>
And as you noticed, only zooming + panning/scanning, no changing fonts, and missing all the other fantastic advantages a true ebook brings!
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Originally Posted by DNSB
Somewhat interestingly, from the content.opf, this epub is intended to be read in landscape with the pages carefully labelled as left/right and the Apple metadata to allow using embedded fonts is present:
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Bah, that's another problem with InDesign's fixed layout EPUBs, they export code that only works in Apple's iBooks.
And I have no idea how that passed Kobo's Quality Control in the first place.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
Overall, the kindest thing I can say about the structure of the epub is that it's an abomination. I've attached some screenshots from my Forma. Likely the same crap you've already seen.
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Woof.
And the book looks like it's a basic Fiction book, just pure text. There's absolutely
zero reason for that to be a fixed-format book.