Exporting books in epub format

Hi!
is there anyone, who is producing design heavy ebooks in epub format ott of Indesign cs55?
OMG. IMHO the whole export filter is one bog software bug!
The output code is mess. In CSS it mixes different measurement units, it losts object tags, and creates a whole lot of is own generated tags when exporting long docuqments organized as InDesign books.
Do you know, is there any alternative to Adobes own epub export? Or how to use CS50 epub export in CS55?
Ants Tuur

Yes. Maybe i expressed myself wrong. For producing coffe table books, the DPS is the best.
What i am doing is producing textbooks and other books full of images and tables.
I am totally baffled with the amount of bugs Adobe new epub export script includes. I mean -- I got the book with a lot of content and therefore split to several ID files compiled to the book. Whwn i expirt that book, the same tag from different files got his own name: body-1, body-2, body-3, etc. How to overcome it?
And there i a lot od this kind of bugs.
The CSS in epub is the mess.
Im i realy the olny one, who got those problems?
A.

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