Words joined together in Fixed Layout

Michael Paulsen

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    • February 1, 2017 at 12:13 am #91794
      Michael Paulsen
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      Hi,
      I’m pretty new to Indesign. When I used Indesign CC 2015 and produced an eBook using the Fixed layout epub option, it looked great on the ipad. However, if I open the ebook in an ebook reader such as Adobe Digital Editions (or any other ebook reader for that matter) many of the words are joined together – the spacing between some words has disappeared.
      Does anyone know why this happens?
      Cheers,
      Mick

    • February 1, 2017 at 12:51 am #91795
      Ken Jones
      Member

      Hi Michael

      This will be due to a font problem.

      When using live text in your fixed layout EPUB pages, the fonts are ’embedded’ – so placed inside the EPUB file for use by the ebook reader.
      If you have used one or more font which can’t be embedded for any reason then the text will still start in the correct position but it will be shown in a substituted font that is available to the ebook reader. In your case the default font is wider than your original font so it gives the impression that spacing has disappeared and the words are joining together.

      Reasons why fonts may not be embedded:

      1. You are using a font format such as PostScript Type 1 which is not supported by EPUB.
      2. Your fonts are not active at the time of making the EPUB.
      3. You are using fonts that have restrictions which disallow themselves being embedded.

      Try a free trial of CircularFLO https://www.circularflo.com to get around this problem and reply here or via https://www.circularsoftware.com/contact/ for further help.

      Good Luck!

      Thanks
      Ken Jones
      Circular Software

    • February 1, 2017 at 7:15 am #91802
      Kai Rübsamen
      Member

      Ken, what is the benefit of using “circularflo” in this case?

      Kai

    • February 1, 2017 at 7:31 am #91805
      Ken Jones
      Member

      Hi Kai, well seeing as you ask… :)

      We understand that not all books can be made in the way that InDesign expects (and images can often cause problems as well as fonts) and so CircularFLO has always been able to take input from ANY InDesign document. We now take in ANY PDF as an input too which means publishers can use CircularFLO to convert their backlist much more easily.

      CircularFLO CAN work with live text but also can use what we call ’embedded text’ which means retaining the appearance of the font in a retina image but keeping the text in the page, so each page is still fully searchable. More on that here https://www.circularflo.com/instructions/#all_text_is_embedded_and_searchable

      This month we are set to release a new version ‘CircularFLO 8’ that has some great new features to do with live text. Any questions on that or anything else just let me know…

      Thanks
      Ken Jones
      Circular Software

    • February 23, 2017 at 5:15 pm #92384
      Michael Paulsen
      Member

      Hi Ken,
      Thanks for your help. I’ll try that.
      Cheers,
      Mick

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