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Originally Posted by st_albert
The biggest fault is that all the body of the book will be in a single .xhtml file within the epub, which will break some readers.
I know, because our small publishing house is now involved in converting our print books (imposed in InDesign) to epub, and I get the task of tweaking the output of ID4 so it will meet our standards.
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If you're still using InDesign4, then you can fix this by restructuring your book in InDesign. Instead of laying out the book as a single document, create a 'Book' which contains each chapter as a separate document (you'll probably want to do the same for the cover, title page, front- and back-matter). Each separate document will then be output as a separate flow and this should solve the issue with flow-sizes. This is rather clumsy and involves pasting a lot of pages into new documents.
ID5 allows you to control flow breaks through use of heading styles which have been specified in the ID-generated Table of Contents. There's a video demonstrating the process
here.
If you use a lot of internal links in your book you'll want to take a look at
this blog post and use the script linked there.