Heading Rasterization

Lana Kotova

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- November 17, 2016 at 3:54 am #89833
  
  Lana Kotova
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  Hello,
  I’ve recently watched Anne-Marie Concepción’s course on creating epubs using InDesign, which has been very helpful.
  What I’m trying to do now is rasterize the headings of my eBook (I want my Chapter titles to appear on a custom background) using Object Export Options, so I group them and rasterize the container.
  The problem is, when I do this, InDesign doesn’t see these chapter titles when creating a ToC based on the paragraph style I used for these headings, although the text is still editable and has Chapter Title paragraph style applied to it. Has anyone else experiences this issue?
  Thanks in advance.
- November 17, 2016 at 8:15 pm #89877
  
  Clark Kenyon
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  Couldn’t you use live text and just group it with the custom background (some sort of image I assume), then anchor the group where it belongs at the head of the chapter?
- November 18, 2016 at 12:39 am #89883
  
  Lana Kotova
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  Clark, thank you for your advice. I tried it, and now it does show up in the ToC, but the text placed on top of the background gets cut off. Not sure If I can attach a screenshot here.
  It also failed to split my document into chapters (I did check the box in the export options).
  I remember Anne-Marie did mention it in her lynda.com course that you can rasterize the headings if you want to preserve their appearance, but she didn’t say anything about how it would affect the ToC.
  As you can see, I’m just a newbie when it comes to epub design, so I’m sorry if I’m asking dumb questions. Just really confused right now.
- November 18, 2016 at 1:02 am #89884
  
  Lana Kotova
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  So after trying various things, the only workaround (hack) I came up with was to create a separate paragraph style (1 pt text with paper swatch applied to it, and place it above my rasterized heading. Then I used this new paragraph style for creating an internal ToC, as well as for splitting the document.
- December 6, 2016 at 4:06 pm #90340
  
  David Blatner
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  Lana, sorry about our forum software cutting out the link to your image… here it is: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9Xm3YmTm05oOU9tSExGQ0pHZDg
- December 6, 2016 at 11:17 pm #90350
  
  Lana Kotova
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  Oh, thanks. Well just as an update, in case somebody comes across the same issue, I did use the workaround described in my previous message as I did not find a better solution.
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