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Originally Posted by CAJensen01
While I've figured out how to use InDesign + Calibre to do a lot of what I was looking for, I didn't get my question quite answered. When a document is segmented as a 'book' in InDesign, the different documents contained within that book are recognized as different chapter/entries into the TOC upon conversion.
However, what about if the document is one large ID document. Is there a method to tag such that chapter breaks are designated in the conversion process?
Thanks
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Haha, looks like people got side-tracked by politics
Unfortunately, the answer to your question is no
. The only way to get InDesign to split the output files so they stay under the 300K limit for mobile devices is to split the documents by hand. I seriously hope that CS5 will see some major improvements, because right now InDesign is quite clumsy for ePubs, though it does have some nice features.
If you want a program which will allow you to split without having to copy and paste large chunks of text, try Atlantis Word Processor (which works on doc files) or Sigil (which works with html or xhtml). The chaptering process is automatic in AWP and Sigil allows you to manually specify chapter breaks simply by clicking a button. Both are used by major publishing houses, so you don't have to use a big expensive program to get professional results.
To tag chapters in AWP, simply apply a Heading style to the relevant paragraph (i.e. Prologue, Chapter One, etc). To do it in Sigil, use the <h1><h2> etc tags.
If your source document is an InDesign layout, you can export it as XML and import it to Sigil for conversion to ePub. Just make sure that all your elements are correctly tagged before export (Map Styles to Tags in the Tag window menu for automatic tagging).