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zebideedoodah · 12-06-2021, 12:27 PM

I just wanted to say a huge thanks to all those who took the time to reply to my post. I was too busy for a while to even look at what I'd been trying to do - but once I did, what you all said made lots of sense. And what a difference it made!

I decided to practice by using an ebook of A Christmas Carol - mainly because it also contained images and would give me lots to practice on. I highlighted all the text from a copy I found on Project Gutenberg and pasted it into both Word and InDesign. Then I downloaded all the images, so I could place them manually.

I then used InDesign to create a fully laid-out pdf (which I would need anyway), then saved that as a html file. I also created an html file from one single Word document, but doing it through ID seems to suit me better, since the paragraph tags convert to CSS. I opened that document in Calibre and split it into the original chapter sections, then ran through and checked for page breaks, dropped italics etc (there always seems to be something, but that's OK - good practice for me).

I seem to have two CSS files, but I just merge them. Is that a problem? Doesn't seem to be.

One issue I've found so far is that Calibre seems to create it's own definitions for character styles, quite apart from those defined through InDesign. Any reason for that? Do I need to merge or delete one or the other?

Another is this error message when I run a check on the file, although it seems to have no effect on the final output:

Unknown property 'panose-1'.****[stylesheet.css]

What should I do about it?

Another issue I have is governing space between headings. There doesn't really seem to be any, although I've increased it by increasing the line-height. It doesn't seem like a perfect solution, though, and only works if the heading is across one line.

The last issue I have is in using images. They place extremely well, but most appear as miniatures between paragraphs. Once clicked on, they enlarge and can be viewed properly, but I wanted to have each of them as full page images, with a page-break before and after. In the CSS, they each have a height of auto and a width of varying percentages. What am I aiming for?

Once again, a huge thanks for your help - your responses were like a masterclass in miniature and I'm now so much more comfortable with what I'm trying to do. I hope you can spare me a few minutes more to point me in the right direction again. If you can, it will be much appreciated.

Thanks!

12-06-2021, 12:27 PM	#5
zebideedoodah Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2021 Location: Scotland Device: Kindle Fire HD	I just wanted to say a huge thanks to all those who took the time to reply to my post. I was too busy for a while to even look at what I'd been trying to do - but once I did, what you all said made lots of sense. And what a difference it made! I decided to practice by using an ebook of A Christmas Carol - mainly because it also contained images and would give me lots to practice on. I highlighted all the text from a copy I found on Project Gutenberg and pasted it into both Word and InDesign. Then I downloaded all the images, so I could place them manually. I then used InDesign to create a fully laid-out pdf (which I would need anyway), then saved that as a html file. I also created an html file from one single Word document, but doing it through ID seems to suit me better, since the paragraph tags convert to CSS. I opened that document in Calibre and split it into the original chapter sections, then ran through and checked for page breaks, dropped italics etc (there always seems to be something, but that's OK - good practice for me). I seem to have two CSS files, but I just merge them. Is that a problem? Doesn't seem to be. One issue I've found so far is that Calibre seems to create it's own definitions for character styles, quite apart from those defined through InDesign. Any reason for that? Do I need to merge or delete one or the other? Another is this error message when I run a check on the file, although it seems to have no effect on the final output: Unknown property 'panose-1'.****[stylesheet.css] What should I do about it? Another issue I have is governing space between headings. There doesn't really seem to be any, although I've increased it by increasing the line-height. It doesn't seem like a perfect solution, though, and only works if the heading is across one line. The last issue I have is in using images. They place extremely well, but most appear as miniatures between paragraphs. Once clicked on, they enlarge and can be viewed properly, but I wanted to have each of them as full page images, with a page-break before and after. In the CSS, they each have a height of auto and a width of varying percentages. What am I aiming for? Once again, a huge thanks for your help - your responses were like a masterclass in miniature and I'm now so much more comfortable with what I'm trying to do. I hope you can spare me a few minutes more to point me in the right direction again. If you can, it will be much appreciated. Thanks!