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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
 I just PMed KevinH 3 of my examples.
2 InDesign EPUBs -> Merged -> Calibre EPUB->EPUB conversion. |
What, the ONE TIME I could have actually been useful, since they stopped accepting donations and you send him the files! You are Dastardly!
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InDesign's EPUB export actually only outputs a single CSS file.
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Yes ^.
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When designing a print book, one type of workflow is:
- individual "chapter file"s
- then link them together into a single "book file".
(This allows you to easily swap/remove chapters, auto-renumber pages/endnotes, etc.)
In my case though, as a converter, I don't have that single "book file"... I only get the 20 separate "chapter file"s.
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You should be getting a master "file" called an indb. However, to use it, you'd have to have INDD.
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So, when I'm exporting, I export each individual chapter -> EPUB... hence the 20 different similar-but-not-quite CSS files.
Mix Direct Formatting and lots of other cruft in there, and you get a giant, conflicting mess on your hands.
IF I had the monolithic "book file", I'd be able to export a single EPUB... but you'd still have a spaghetti mess, but no conflicting names. :P
(Same as cleaning up Word->HTML, etc. etc.)
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Oh, god, yes.
My latest rant, unrelated to Kevin and Diap, is that we're getting INDD package files from "designers" that
Do
Not
Use
Any
Styles
At
All.
Apparently, they licensed INDD on Monday, got a job on Wednesday and now, even though they couldn't spell DEZINER on Monday, now they IZ ONE!
GRRRRRMMMMMMMBLLLL
Yes, me too^^^
Hitch