Problems with Cover in Reflowable ePub

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    • October 31, 2014 at 10:01 am #71358
      Khoi Vinh
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      I’m making my first ever ePub! I’ve figured out most everything with InDesign, except controlling how the cover gets translated into a graphic. I keep coming up with results like these, where the type is oversized and gets cut off, even though the font is correct.

      https://cl.ly/image/1G3O3N2w090P

      (I’ve blurred some text on the right side there for proprietary interests.)

      What am I doing wrong? I would be just as happy to replace that cover, which is made up of InDesign objects, type, and a photo graphic imported from Photoshop, with a single PNG or JPG version, to make export simpler. Is there a way to do that in InDesign, or do I need to create a different version of this file for ePub generation?

      Thanks!

    • October 31, 2014 at 10:09 am #71359
      Stephen Buck
      Participant

      Make certain that Rasterize First Page is selected when exporting to ePub:

    • October 31, 2014 at 11:29 am #71361
      Khoi Vinh
      Member

      Thanks for your reply, Buck. I tried that and get the same result. Any other ideas?

    • October 31, 2014 at 11:59 am #71362
      Stephen Buck
      Participant

      If that didn’t work, I would try two other steps:
      1. Check the order of items within the layers panel so that the correcvt element is on top of the others.
      2. Check the frame sizing of each element.

      If that doesn’t work, I don’t know what else to suggest to correct the problem.

    • November 2, 2014 at 3:45 pm #71384
      Aaron Troia
      Participant

      Have you tried converting the text on your cover page to outlines? You could also export the first page as a PDF pull it into Photoshop and create a JPG from it and then use that as your cover.

    • November 3, 2014 at 9:47 am #71395
      Khoi Vinh
      Member

      Thanks folks. Converting the image to a JPG seems to be the easiest answer, though it’s disappointing that I have to use a kludge like that.

      Another, relates question: how can I be sure to get page breaks between major pieces of the front matter? Right now I have the cover, the copyright info, the contents etc. all running together. I’d like them to break out into individual pages.

    • November 3, 2014 at 9:53 am #71396
      Stephen Buck
      Participant

      Page Breaks:

      I have used two solutions that solve that problem:

      Option 1:

      Use an InDesign Book. Save each page to an individual .indd file and manually place that into a book.

      Usually that option works for me, but not always (don’t ask me why). So then I proceed to

      Option 2:

      Manually insert the New Page code for the relevant format (standard epub, kindle mobi) into the HTML code where the page break needs to exist.

    • November 3, 2014 at 9:56 am #71397
      Khoi Vinh
      Member

      Thanks Buck. Is there an easy way to figure out what the correct New Page code is?

    • November 3, 2014 at 10:03 am #71398
      Stephen Buck
      Participant

      Sorry to say this, but “google it”. That’s what I do to help make certain I am using the most current code.

      Sample:

      enter:
      kindle page break

      into Google.

      I get this page:
      https://kdp.amazon.com/help?topicId=A1B8OEIMUN0HFY

    • November 3, 2014 at 10:57 am #71399
      Khoi Vinh
      Member

      Buck: fair answer! Thank you.

    • November 3, 2014 at 1:03 pm #71400
      Khoi Vinh
      Member

      FWIW I found another method of adding page breaks that, perhaps too predictably, seems to work some of the time. But I got it to work often enough for my needs.

      The method is:

      > You need to designate what paragraph styles should start on a new page.
      > In InDesign CS6, open the Paragraph Styles panel. From the panel menu,
      > choose Edit All Export Tags. Select the paragraph styles which you want
      > to Split the EPUB. Then when you export EPUB, on the Advanced panel,
      > choose Split Document: Based on Paragraph Style Export Tags.

      And I found it here:

      https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1078970?tstart=0

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