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I'm having difficulty with a reflowable ebook project which includes line drawing illustrations. They are mainly looking good all sized at 600px wide (all greyscale gifs under 127k) and exporting with object export options set to CSS: relative to text flow. Where they fall in the middle of text on a page they look great, most are landscape format, wider than they are tall. However once they are exported if they fall near the bottom of the page they just disappear off the page, in some cases you just catch a tiny glimpse of the top and the rest has gone, it does not appear on the following page. I've tried a variety of export combinations include page breaks before, after and before and after and it's just not making a difference.
I'm using Indesign CC (2014) on a mac and then opening with Kindle previewer and letting kindlegen convert to a .mobi. If I open the epub with digital editions the same thing is occurring. It is an mobi file I need at the end of the process. It seems to happen whatever device I use to emulate the preview on The Kindle previewer and illustrations may appear whole in one view then disappear on another, depending on how it's reflowing. I've also sent it to my kindle and it's definitely chopping the images off on that.
Is there anyway I can ensure the whole image is displayed, I thought adding a page break before would do it but this doesn't seem to be working I'd even live with the nasty gaps that would give me. I've applied paragraph styles, object styles and looked at the export options, wondering if I've got in a mess here somehow - what takes priority?
I'd like to do this in inDesign, I have looked at the code in sigil and can only tell that the images are consistently coded, not sure how they should read.
Any help with this would be great as I'm going round and round now!

Hi Monica
Thanks for your reply it made me focus on the export options and stop messing with styles. I decided it was time to start again, so I created a new document with the intent set to digital publishing (I've not bothered with this previously and it's not seemed to matter) and copied across the contents of the book I only had to recreate a TOC everything else styles wise copied across fine and I re-imported the meta-data then tried epub export again, in Object settings I selected use original image and selected relative to text flow, and it's working! I wonder if something has changed in InDesign CC 2014 because I never used a digital publishing intent document before as I thought the page setup had no bearing on the epub export..? (This was exactly the same export settings I had tried with my original document which was derived from a print version) Anyway I have a solution, I'm not needing to use the page breaks as the images are being put as I wanted in the text flow if they fit, on the next page if not, which is fine. Now if I could just sort the space before in paragraph styles when it's the first item in a text box, so that a dedication could sit in the middle of the page... but I guess that's another question!

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