Indesign document to ePub Conversion

Hi,
Please can anyone help me to get a solution to convert Indesign document to ePub file using indesign plug-in development?
Thanks
Ashok

You set the indents and spacing in the Paragraph Styles panel under the Indents and Spacing tab. First Line Indent, Space Before/After. You will need two styles if the first par is not indented and the subsequent ones are.
There is an InDesign ePub forum.

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I get the following message everytime when I try to export an Indesign document to epub.
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Resource: 1 missing
Macintosh HD:Ap…n
CS6.app:Contents:MacOS:template.css"
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Your InDesign CS6 file probably was created in an earlier version where the CSS file created was handled in a different way. It's associated with a "template.css" file that InDesign cannot find.
Choose File > Export > EPUB. Go to the Advanced panel. In the CSS Options section, select "template.css" in the Additional CSS section, and click Delete.

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From InDesign 6.0 to 6.0.3, there were issues with font embedding, but they were quite easily overcome by editing the EPUB file (see fix here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/330027). With 6.0.4, the font embedding feature is broken. Not all the type faces are copied into the Fonts folder. The CSS file doesn't reference all the type faces used and the encryption.xml file doesn't reference them either. It's possible to fix the EPUB file so that the fonts are embedded, but it's a huge pain, so stick with 6.0.3 if you're serious about EPUB publishing.
As for using the PDFXML Inspector, I wasn't detailed enough in my explanation (sorry to create that confusion). When you open an XML or XHTML file with PDFXML Inspector, extra breaks are inserted in order to make the code easier to read.
So the following code...
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I just discovered that you can overcome this issue if you turn off the "Pretty Printing" option by choosing View > XML > Pretty Printing. Do this before opening an EPUB file and making edits to it.
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