InDesign 5.5 exporting to epub - grouped images export fine, everything else is blurry

I'm trying to export a user manual book to epub. All of the images are linked, anchored images.
The images in the exported HTML files are extremely low quality, even when exported with the maximum resolution.
I experimented a little by modifying the object export settings for two of the images:
A) an image grouped with another image file positioned on top of it.
B) an image of the same dialog (so, pretty much an identical image) that was not grouped.
I made both of these images have the same Custom Rasterization settings:
Size: relative to page wdith
Format: JPEG
Resolution: 300 ppi
Quality: Maximum
Method: Baseline
When I exported the ePub (taking care not to ignore the custom settings), image A looked fine in the export and image B looked terrible.
I then grouped image B with a blank text box to create a "grouped" image and re-exported. Now, image B has quality on-par with image A, with exactly the same image as before.
What gives?

The problem is your original images are too low resolution.
I recreated the same problem. I took some of the text used in one of my ebooks, and exported a PDF from InDesign. I opened it in Photoshop and rasterized it at 72 ppi.
I saved it and placed it into InDesign, then scaled it to 45%.
Here's what it looks like:
Once you start with a low-res image, choosing 300 ppi as your export resolution won't magically restore it to looking good.
Start with type which is at a high resolution like 300 ppi, and work from there.

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Export to EPUB large image & caption on 1 page

I can't seem to do something that should be very simple. I've spent 2 days on this, checking out Lynda,con courses, and forums. But can't figure it out!
After each chapter, I would like:
1. A full page photo and caption underneath it on same page. It doesn't need to bleed, but I'd like the images to be LARGE, basically take up most of the page (and be centered vertically, if possible, but I can live without that.)
2. The anchored image/caption group should adjust so it takes up roughly the same proportion of the page, if viewed as a single page (e.g when looking at ibooks in portrait position, as it does when looking at it horizontally, meaning it would scale down and look like it takes up most of the page proportionately when page is smaller.)
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When viewed horizontally:
For both photo 1 @ 2, the caption is on a new page. On photo 2, the caption is cut off.
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The packaged Indesign files are available here
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18648953/TestforForum.zip
Thanks!!!

Hi Pooja:
Thanks for your response. I am on CC v.9.2. I took some screenshots from my ipad (I am using the ibooks viewer) to better explain the issue.
Screenshots
1. Test1—photo1: (This is taken from the file in the TestforForum.zip. See link in the original post). This shows roughly how large I want the images to appear. It could be a bit smaller so the caption fits. (Is that why it appears on top of image?)
I didn't take a screenshot, but when you turn ipad landscape, the photo is nice and big, but the caption moves to the next page. I'd like it to scale down proportionately, so the photo and caption are on one page, and fill most of the page.
I did note that these group items are taller than 600 px. So I did another text, making sure the groups were less than 600px high.
2. Test 2—Photo1: (See link below)
The grouped image and caption is 599 px tall. But look how TINY it is on the page now! In landscape mode, it does fill the page, but the caption is cut off.
I uploaded these new files to dropbox, so you can help decipher the exact issue.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18648953/Testforforum2.zip
3. As far as captions getting cut off, I found I needed to make the text frame much taller. I'm guessing this is to accomodate caption fonts becoming bigger when scaled on the reader. BUT if I make the frames taller, that means the photo has to be even smaller, to fit within 600 px height when grouped.
I hope you'll take a look at the two sets of zipped files. I've tried everything I can think of. Please let me know if you need screenshots of the landscape mode.
Thank you!!!! I REALLY appreciate your help on this. Jami

Lightroom 4. I have a large image (scanned) 10,000 X 14000 which does not Render when I try to print or export. Regular sized images work fine.

In Lightroom 4:Mac OS 10.6.8. I have an expecially large image (scanned) which is 10,000 X 14,000. I have edited it but when I try to print or export the image, it starts to "Rendering Page" but gets stuck and is unable to complete the task before it times out. When I use normal sized photo images (raw), it works fine. I suspect the problem is related to the size of the file. Is there some way I can reduce the size of the image while in Lightlroom? Or is there any other solution?

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When I export to ePub from the individual chapter (.indd) file, everything is fine and the images appear in the correct locations where they have been anchored.
When I export via the book (.indb) file, images are being replaced with the incorrect file in the resulting ePub.
Looking at the HTML, it seems not all images are being exported from the .indb file and when the image is missing, Indesign is substituting the next available image from the alphabetical list in the images folder so I'm getting incorrect images peppered throughout the book.
Any idea where I've gone wrong and how to fix it? I've produced several ePubs with images and never come across this before.
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Any help much appreciated.

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first, I exported to an epub the single file, creating a fairly clean CSS, which I then extracted and renamed;
then, making certain that file was the "source" file in the book panel, I mapped for export all of the tags, being careful to be certain each tag/class combo was same as in renamed clean CSS;
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Hi,
I have created an ebook with from the template apple instructs to use (http://images.apple.com/support/pages/docs/ePub_Best_Practices_EN.zip)
and i've added some images on several pages. they are all centered and set to inline (as epub can't handle floating objects/images)
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any advice would be great.
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Hi Steph,
That worked for some of the images but not for all of them.
I found a strange solution that worked in conjunction with your solution.
After you center the "text line" that it is on (or the one under it like you say), i mark the image and in the sidebar in which you choose the type of line/text (like chapter title or sub title etc') and you make the image or image line as a a chapter title or subtitle. prefprebly subtitle as to not mess with the table of content.
then when i exported to epub the images were finally centered. all of them.
hope this helps if anyone else encounters that issue.
Thanks for the added help.
J

InDesign CS5.5 EPUB export not showing cover image in Adobe Digital Editions

I have a document that I am trying to ensure is reflecting the cover image prior to uploading to several EPUB sites like google and Barnes and Noble. I am using Adobe Digital Editions, Calibre, Firefox (EPUBReader) to do the troubleshooting on the document. Calibre shows the cover image Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) does not. Are their any known problems with ADE not reflecting the cover image that I need to be aware of before I continue working on this?
The ADE help says the following:
"Once the items are in your library, there are two ways to view the content of any bookshelf. You can view thumbnails of your items. The thumbnail is the cover page of the item (or just the first page if it doesn't have a cover page). In this view, you see the set of thumbnails and some information about each item (author, title). You can also sort the order in which the items are shown by author, title, date created, number of pages, and so forth."
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CS 5.5
The project is a book (indb) composed of multiple documents (indd)
Exporting as book as an EPUB
On general tab I am "Use existing image"
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It passes the SIGIL check.
The image name is Democracy in Business Dust Jacket 300dpi.jpg. It is 300 dpi and 1650 x 2550. I could also cut in the one that I did for cover.jpg but it only replaces the file name.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" unique-identifier="bookid" version="2.0">
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        <meta name="generator" content="Adobe InDesign"/>
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        <dc:title>Thomas J. Watson Sr. Essays on Leadership - Democracy in Business</dc:title>
        <dc:creator>Peter E. Greulich</dc:creator>
        <dc:subject>Thomas J. Watson</dc:subject>
        <dc:subject>Tom Watson</dc:subject>
        <dc:subject>Tom Watson Sr.</dc:subject>
        <dc:subject>Leadership</dc:subject>
        <dc:subject>Democracy</dc:subject>
        <dc:subject>Democracy in Business</dc:subject>
        <dc:description></dc:description>
        <dc:publisher>MBI Concepts Corporation</dc:publisher>
        <dc:date>2012-01-01</dc:date>
        <dc:source></dc:source>
        <dc:relation></dc:relation>
        <dc:coverage></dc:coverage>
        <dc:rights>2012 All rights reserved</dc:rights>
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        <dc:identifier id="bookid">ISBN:9780983373438</dc:identifier>
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        <item id="Book-Cover" href="Book%20Cover.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
        <item id="Authors-Works" href="Authors%20Works.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
        <item id="Title-Page" href="Title%20Page.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
        <item id="Copyright-Page" href="Copyright%20Page.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
        <item id="Dedication-Page" href="Dedication%20Page.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
        <item id="Table-of-Contents" href="Table%20of%20Contents.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
        <item id="Watson-Quote" href="Watson%20Quote.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
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        <item id="About-Thomas-J-Watson-Sr" href="About%20Thomas%20J%20Watson%20Sr.html" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
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        <reference type="title-page" title="Title Page" href="Title%20Page.html"/>
        <reference type="toc" title="Table of Contents" href="Table%20of%20Contents.html"/>
        <reference type="copyright-page" title="Copyright Page" href="Copyright%20Page.html"/>
        <reference type="dedication" title="Dedication Page" href="Dedication%20Page.html"/>
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I have also been trying to get this cover image to display on PC for NOOK but it appears that everyone is having hits problem too. I have followed some trouble shooting guides and renamed the jpg image, Democracy in Business Dust Jacket 300dpi.jpg to cover.jpg but that doesn't seem to work either for NOOK.
Any help you can give would be appreciated. I am new to InDesign (I know you probably hate hearing that, but I have gotten so close to being done overcoming all the new user hurdles). I think this is my last one before uploading to the appropriate sites - PS. I got the cover page to show up on the Kindle but not Adobe's own product.
Thanks
Peter E. Greulich

ebookjunkie, I have just used InDesign to publish two very short "books" (.99 cent variety) and started this thread with the first question. Look to Bob for the expert advice. This is neophyte advice from someone moving from publishing a full book using Word to EPUB/Kindle and now using InDesign to publish to EPUB/Kindle.
First ADE is useless. I say this out of frustration of trying to use it to troubleshoot problems and it has so many problems in displaying an EPUB that you spend a lot of time troubleshooting ADE issues rather than EPUB problems. The problems are not limited to but won't display a cover page properly, text wrapping is iffy, Drop caps a problem, bringing over supported items like drop caps, all small caps, etc.... are also issues as best I can tell. Humble opinion is delete off your desktop. I use the following to troubleshoot my EPUB's/Kindle books on my Windows platform; Calibre, Barnes and Noble's Nook for PC and iPhone iTunes for EPUB (Sigil to look for errors); and for Kindle, Kindle previewer and Kindle for the PC. Even after doing this, I just today saw my book a buyer's Android "Reader" and the pictures did not display at all. So it is publish once and test everywhere! Unfortunately, you just can't test all the possible devices and iterations of readers. (I am from IBM and we couldn't do it, so how publishers are supposed to figure it out is beyond me!)
On the absolutely great news end, you will see a lot of problems about placing images on the iPad with a lot of workarounds. They apparently (Apple) have fixed this as my two publications show images nicely now on both the iPhone and iPad with the iTunes bookshelf/reader. They were "microdots" when viewed previously. I did nothing to fix it and was just not going to publish to the iPAd and just tested them a few weeks ago and they display perfectly. So Apple has fixed the problem. If it looks good on the Nook for PC, it should look good on the iPAD/iPhone now as best I can tell.
Cheers
Peter E. Greulich
Author, Speaker and Publisher
The World's Greatest Salesman and Tom Watson Sr Essays on Leadership

Recent InDesign change suppresses non-printing layers when exporting to EPUB

I hate it when development teams quiety "fix" features I've come to rely on.
I am using InDesign CC 9.2.
Until a recent update, when I exported a book to EPUB from InDesign, layers which were set to show but not print were included in the export. I relied on this because my documents include a non-printed Table of Contents block on the first page of each piece included in the anthology. This block causes the correct page to be set when generating the TOC (notice that it's on the page facing the title, not the title page itself) and is used to print the correct title on the title page of each story and running headers throughout the body.
(An example document - Click for full size)
Up to at least January 2014, when I exported to EPUB, that visible-but-not-printed block was included in the XHTML output. I could then modify CSS to optimize for e-reader display and the title and author names would appear at the top of each piece. Sometime within the past couple of months, that has changed: layers that are not printed also do not export to EPUB. This wouldn't be so big a problem except that the printed title in the image above also is not output to the EPUB file, because it's a text variable in the underlying master page.
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(The old output - Click for full size)
The new output:
(The new output - Click for full size)
I have five volumes of the anthology so far (comprising roughly 30 stories each) with a new one coming out every three months. Now that this change has been thrown at me, I need to get it resolved or come up with a good workaround while I only have a couple hundred documents to update, instead of double that a year from now.
Thank you for any help or suggestions you can provide!

Going back through every document to override Master Page objects just to get the elements to export is not a realistic workaround.
The change that suppresses visible but non-printing objects is annoying, but at least it's a documented change in 9.2. The change that suppresses all Master Page elements as well is not documented (or at least not documented in an obvious way) and so to me it's a bug.
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Image quality seems poor when exporting to ePub (even on max)

Hello all,
I've been using InDesign to prep a book for export to ePub format, and it will include several images. Things are going fairly well now that I finally think I've got my mind around the way InDesign works and how to think/prep in advance (i.e. get the Masters right and think 'styles' for as much as possible).
But, when I get things exported to ePub format, I've noticed that the images seem to loose resolution even when I choose jpeg at the maximum setting. Where it's most obvious is when there is text in parts of an image (like text on a map), and at smaller fonts the text becomes blurry and unreadable. The image is pristine and sharp in Photoshop, and is very clear in InDesign doing the layout, and even if I simply save it as a jpeg in Photoshop it stays sharp and things are clear and ledgible. But...
...From InDesign...exported to ePub format using the maximum settings...it ends up soft, or a bit fuzzy, to the extent that whether viewing in Digital Editions or ePubReader in Firefox, the smaller text is virtually unreadable.
Anyone have any ideas why this happens? I could consider making the initial image some much-larger size and hope that when it shrinks to fit the reader window maybe it will still be clear. But I've read that 'best practice' is to keep the image between 300 and 600 pixels in width, so I've made sure it was a bit less that 600. Regardless, it just isn't good enough as it is now.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
-T

I'm having the same problem. About 4 out of every ten images are exported at half the resolution of the rest -- looking at the images in Photoshop each apparent "pixel" is actually 2 x 2 pixels across.
This occurs both at "high" and "maximum" settings, the images are still borked and the only difference is the resultant file size.
I've read the PDF referred to in the reply but it says nothing about this.
My guess is that this is a bug triggered by certain dimensional inputs to the exporter (a la the Photoshop bug where rotating pixels 90° causes artifacts when the area involved is an even number of pixels by an odd number of pixels -- see http://bjango.com/articles/photoshopcs6wishlist/ ).

Export to epub with linked ai files result in low quality images

I have a 220 page indesign cc doc which I am exporting to epub fixed layout. I have around 100 linked ai files. When I export, the main paragraph text is crisp and lovely but the ai figures are a little fuzzy.
I have tested different settings in the 'Object Export Options' but each time it comes out the same.
See image below.
I have searched around but can't seem to find anyone talking about this. Has anyone else had this problem? Any suggestions?

Hello Carli,
When exporting to epub, images format changes to png/jpg/gif depending on what you have selected in EPUB Export Options dialog. Please try exporting to PNG with high resolution selected(you can change Resolution as well in Export Options dialog).
Thanks
-Anshul

SWF doesn't seem to export to EPUB with InDesign CS4

I have set up a test InDesign file for an ebook. This includes two different placed SWF files. These do not seem to export to EPUB format. Everything else works as expected, but I really wonder whether I might be doing something wrong or whether it isn't possible to deal with swf-animations in ID CS4 and EPUB.
Thanks for your answers.

I have now unzupped the epub file and the XML file contains the code for the swf files to be shown (I think).
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<object data="images/welcomecurl.swf" width="468" height="60" />
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However, nothing displays in Digital Editions...

Export to ePub from InDesign

I read at http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/epub/howto/ that it is possible to export to ePub format from InDesign CS4. Is it also possible to export to ePub format from InDesign 2.0? I have a pdf and a Word document that I want to export to ePub format. But I can't get either one of them to open in InDesign. Would this problem be solved if I upgraded to InDesign CS4? Is there another way to make my PDF or Word document into an ePub by using InDesign 2.0 without upgrading?
Thank you.

Liz Castro’s Kindle book is not available in my region; it’s blocked by Amazon.
As for InDesign 2.0, it generally works for what I need, and when it doesn’t do something that I need, I am told that InDesign CS5 doesn’t do it either. So for the time being, I see no compelling reason to spend the $700 on the upgrade.
By the way, I am also told by a colleague who knows InDesign well that while a Word document cannot be opened in InDesign 2.0, it can be “imported” by following the following steps:
-          Create a new InDesign (.indd) file that corresponds to the number of pages, page size, and page margins of the Word document.
-          Place the Word document on the page. This creates a textbox with the contents of the document in it.
-          You may want to adjust the size of the text box to suit the margins.
-          Go to the bottom right corner of the highlighted textbox and click on the plus signal.
-          Place your mouse on the next page of the InDesign (.indd) file and click. This creates another textbox with the continuation of the text from the previous page.
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-          Sometimes, the formatting in the .indd file does not exactly match that of the .doc file, particularly for page breaks, tables of contents, indexes, and other front and back matter.
She says that some publishers use this technique, but it is more common to “link” an InDesign file to a text document that contains the text that is to be published. In this way, new editions of a book can easily be generated by simply updating the InDesign file to the source file when the text in the source file has changed.
On another note, if anyone can suggest a good program that can easily convert Word documents or PDFs to ePub files, I’d greatly appreciate the recommendation. I have read about Stanza Desktop and Calibre, both of which can supposedly convert both Word and pdf files to ePub format. There are others well, such as Web-Books.com, which can also supposedly convert .doc files into ePubs. The web site http://selfpublishingadventure.com/converting-word-files-to-epub-files/ recommends eCub and ePubGen, the ePub converter from Google, but the former doesn’t handle Word documents and the author of that web page said that ePubGen inserted arbitrary page breaks.
I’d like a program that can convert Word or pdf files while preserving as much as the formatting (particularly headings, styles, fonts, page breaks, page numbering, and embedded images) as possible without requiring a lot of manual revision. Suggestions/recommendations are welcome.
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JMT

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This is the error message I get: "Runtime error: R6025 - pure virtual function call". Makes no sense to me, and it happens every time, no matter what other programs I do or do not have open.
I'm running Win XP SP3 and have plenty of memory.
Thanks.

Good morning (for me, at least). OK, let's try to catch up.
I am still not 100% clear what your actual problem is. Perhaps you can start by restating it clearly and unambiguously.
Has it changed since June?
You might post a screenshot of the way you have the TOC set up.
But the first step is to figure out if it happens with a brand new document that is untainted by your existing document. Perhaps something in your current document is making InDesign misbehave. So make sure that TOC export works right from a fresh document.
After that, then the task is to figure out what about your document is causing the problem. Exporting to IDML is a good step to clearing corruption, but is not 100% definitive. But if it works, great. Other steps including using the Pages (panel) > Move Pages function to move pages between documents, and also exporting individual stories to InDesign Tagged Text and then re-importing them into new documents. You can also export some items as snippets, though this is likely to have the same effect as IDML, but somewhat more self-contained (think "IDML Export of this page only.")
In short, this is Divide and Conquer. The problem could be in a story, in a style, on a page, in an image, etc., etc.
Additionally, you might want to consider ponying up $40 and engaging Adobe Support: http://adobe.com/go/supportportal.
Unfortunately support for CS4 is somewhat waning (it is 3 versions old!), and Adobe Support is not always stellar at solving problems quickly. Still, they are an option to consider.
Also, I'm definitely not an EPUB person. Hopefully when you post the details of what exactly you're doing some of the EPUB folks will still be paying attention to this thread and can point out any obvious issues they are aware if ("Hey! It's a known bug if you use the letter é in your EPUB TOC! Just remove it and you're good!" or whatever).
You ask:
Do you know what I can do to fix the stack problem? Is that an Adobe problem or a Windows problem? I'm waaay beyond the limits of my expertise here.
It's not a "problem" per se -- the stack is a data structure that stores state about functions calls made by programs. Under normal circumstances, when a program crashes -- that is, when the operating system detects that a program has done something it should never do, such as tried to access a region of memory that does not belong to it, the operating system forcibly terminates the program -- the stack reflects information about the function that was currently executing, and the function that called it, and the function that called it, etc., etc., typically 20-50 levels deep.
Depending on exactly why the program faulted, sometimes this information is not available. For instance, if the program failure that caused the crash involved corruption on the stack.
Often the stack can give us useful clues about the nature of the crash, and those clues can help us avoid the crash. Simple example: "Oh, this crash is related to the third party extension Frobozz Magic Font! Turn it off!"
I just posted a question about the corrupted stack in the Microsoft forum, and they replied only Adobe can fix it. It's apparently not a Microsoft problem.
They are, to a first order, correct. When InDesign crashes, it's an Adobe problem. The stack issue is a low-level diagnostic and is unlikely to be a real problem. But certainly no one could fix it without altering the InDesign program, and only Adobe can do that.
I'm getting pretty nervous about this; I have clients screaming for their books, and I'll have to refund some money if this isn't solved. Whatever you can do would really be appreciated!
I think you need to present us with a lot more information about your problem.
Precise steps to reproduce it.
Screenshots showing how you have it set up.
Copies of files that exhibit it.
That we can try to reproduce it, see if it is specific to your machine or your document, give recommendations on how you can work around or avoid it, etc.
And seperately, aside from all of those things, is getting the problem fixed. Though if it happens in CS4 and not in CS5.5, well, then it's unlikely that a fix will be forthcoming. Adobe just isn't updating CS4 any more. They're hardly updating CS5 and CS5.5, and CS6 is on the horizon.
Oh, and if you're willing to throw money at the problem, you can look at upgrading. EPUB support has changed dramatically in CS5.5 (for the better, I am told, but I don't speak from personal experience), so it's likely that any problems you saw with it under CS4 will be very very different [and hopefully gone!] in CS5.5.

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Hello,
I've just started to learn how to export documents to EPUB format using inDesign CS5 7.0.3 on Mac OSX. I've found that the exported books can be opened in Adobe Digital Editions, but not on Stanza.
The error I am getting in Stanza is:
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b) At least warn that the file name with spaces can cause trouble on some readers.
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- Alan Q

Try this tutorial:
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The two best references:
* Elizabeth Castro's eBooks on EPUB preparation from InDesign:
http://www.elizabethcastro.com/epub/
* Anne-Marie Concepcion's videos at www.lynda.com
(If Bob Levine shows up he could give a link for a free week, but he's pretty busy with the results of Sandy in NJ.)

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