More epub export woes

I've moved back to CS4 to create and export my ebooks, since CS5 has the [very annoying] bug of failing to properly export intra book document hyperlinks. Unfortunately, though CS4 seems to make better interactive epub files, I'm running into some other problems. First off, every time I export a book to Digital Editions, ID CS4 crashes, often reporting damaged files on a restart--some of them so damaged that I can't reopen them and have to recreate them from scratch. The crash appears to be happening as the epub export is completing because I usually find the epub file after the crash and it will open and all of it is there. This has happened with 3 ebooks in a row . . . every time I do a book export to Digital Editions, CS4 crashes.
Another strange thing I just ran across is the inaccurate export of typographical quote marks. The weird thing about it is, that it can be correct in one book document and replaced by "Äô" in another book document in the same book. I opened both docs, and they are using the same glyph and fonts, so I can't figure out why it's right in one place and wrong in another in the same ebook file.
Anyone have any ideas about either of these issues? I have fully patched CS4 (and CS5--though that helps little with the unfixed hyperlink bug) on an Intel Mac running 10.5.8.
While I wait on any replies, I'm going to try the exports from my Windows 7 laptop to see if I have the same problems there.

That was the first thing I did but copying the text to note pad and stripping all styles got me right back where I started. The strange thing is the encoding can be fine in some chapters and displayed wrong in others. whether it's a single file separated by first levels or multiple files in a book file.
I've been told it's the reader's fault but that means ADE (and subsequent readers that use ADE would all see the bad encoding. In another forum I was told to add:
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> in the <head> of the document. I did, but it didn't change things.
One thing I noticed was when exporting you get varying results of the encoding if you sort by unordered and ordered lists as opposed to convert to text.
One will provide less encoding hassles. Anyway my only solution so far is manually editing the code to the html codes. Find and replace.
http://www.tedmontgomery.com/tutorial/htmlchrc.html
It might be a worthwhile project to export the epub and convert the epub to epub in Calibre and see if Calibre reincodes it correctly.

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Re: Indesign CS6 epub export bug
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lotuscott,
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Missing random photos in epub export

I am converting a print book to an ePub. I built the layout in a word processing document in Pages, using inline images, text styles and flush, right and left images. I then exported the file to the ePub format. It is a large book with 400,000 words and 300 images.
The final product looked great until I started noticing that there were photos missing throughout the document - about 115 out of the 300. There is no pattern to which are missing - i.e. 40 in row are fine and then 3 in row are missing. I used 3 different alignment settings for the inline images and some of each all appear fine. The images are all dropped in using paste from an InDesign file that contains a photo with its caption so as to keep the caption with the image. The dropped image is a pdf that the epub exporter converts to a PNG file. In the xhtml files inside the epub, there is no reference at all to the missing images - the image numbers completely skip them and the code just has a space where the image code should appear.
I was hoping to be able to get close with Pages to ePub and then make minor tweaks to the finished product. I didn't expect to have to hand convert 115 images into PNGs, hand code them into their exact location, code the reference into the OPF file and then assemble it all again. Seems to strongly point to an "undocumented feature" that is ignoring random images.
Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. (I've got about 40 hours into converting this book so far and it looks like it is going to add about 20 more to manually fix all these problems and manually check the output.)
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Wade

I was not able to solve this problem using Pages. I took the problematic ePub I exported from Pages and used it as a starting point. I did a bunch of research on the ePub format and figured out how to solve the problem manually. (Make sure you use the latest version of the iTunesConnect_PublisherUserGuide.pdf as it gives a host of great information and things you have to do for it to work.)
I ended up getting technical and cracking open the ePub file into its component parts - META-INF, mimetype, OPS - by changing the ePub extension to zip and then using Stuffit Archive manager to export the contents. (In a ton of research I found all about the structure of the ePub files and that it is basically a ZIP file with some special qualities.)
Inside the OPS folder is basically a web folder - with an xhtml page for each chapter, css files, image files and a couple of ePub specific files. I used Dreamweaver to edit the problem chapters and placed the missing images. Also, I converted all of the "dropped images" I brought in from InDesign to PNG files (they contained the image with its caption so that it stayed formatted and in place with the picture). This served to make the overall size of the ePub smaller, as we were bumping up against the iTunes size limit.
The item that has to be done or this won't work is to correctly modify the "epb.opf" file that is in the OPS folder. When you open it, you will see the pattern of how every image placed in Pages is listed/referenced in this file. From there, I had to add the appropriate reference to every image I had added and make sure that there were no extra images referenced. The ePub will not validate without this step. (Another tool I used was ePubChecker - it will check for this and many other things that will cause your iTunes validation to fail. Invaluable.)
Once I made all the modifications, I used ePub Zip 1.0.2 to correctly ZIP all the files and convert it to a validatable ePub file. I couldn't create the right kind of ePub file - with all the meta data set correctly - using Stuffit. (Had something to do with how something wrote out from Stuffit). ePub Zip did it perfectly.
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I'm not sure whether this is a known issue within ID so forgive me for bringing it up if it is. I couldn't find any satisfying answer on this forum, hence my question.
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Every time on export to ePub, it is not respecting the Break Document at Paragraph Style: Chapter Title.
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I did generate a Table of Contents in a frame on the pasteboard based on a suggestion in another topic.
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I even tried exporting to IDML, opening, updating the table of contents, and re-exporting. Same problem.
I realize I could open in Sigil and split the html, but I swore after I upgraded to 5.5 I would never have to go back to Sigil.
Any ideas on what could be causing this?
Thanks in advance
Bill

I've got it working.
Perhaps the problem was the numbered list used in the Chapter Title paragraph style? I had said to convert numbered lists to text in the ePub Export dialog.
Some combination of these steps solved the problem in case others encounter the same thing:
a) Changed the chapter headings using the Chapter Title paragraph style to Chapter Title FM. This style does not used a numbered list. Of course, I had to manually type "Chapter 1" - before each chapter title.
b) Once all occurences of the Chapter Title paragraph style were gone, I redefined the TOC definition to remove Chapter Title. This leaves me with a single Level 1 and a single Level 2.
c) Updated the TOC with the new definition.
d) Moved the TOC frame from the pasteboard to some blank space in the front matter. I did not bother to make the frame large enough for all the text, since InDesign will delete this upon export.
e) Export to PDF. On the third panel, changed the "break at: Chapter Title" to "break at: Chapter Title FM"
My theory is getting rid of the numbered list in the chapter paragraph styles probably solved the problem. Thanks to all who took the time to check out the discussion.
Bill

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I've created an ePub Fixed Layout ebook from inDesign 2014.1. I now want to create a summary book for Apple's iBook store, using pages from multiple chapters.
I know the ePub export dialog has an "Export Range" panel in the "General" tab. When you export from a single inDesign Document, you can either leave it as "All Pages" or chose a Page Range. However, I have an inDesign Book, with a inDesign document per chapter.
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I want to use a .jpg image file as the cover in an epub export, but choosing this file in the epub export dialogue doesn't work: the exported epub file always puts a .png file of the title page in the thumbnails folder. I thought that replacing this file with a .png file of the cover would do the trick, but I still get the title page thumbnail in Digital Editions. What's the trick?

Upfront disclosure: Like Steve, I'm just getting into Epub but I've been using HTML/CSS for years in building websites so it's been a pretty easy move for me.
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Finally, I'm not sure you can have an Epub without a cover. In iBooks you'll only see it if you go to the TOC and have the tablet in landscape orientation.
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Something changed in ePub exports of images recently, or in iBooks' rendering of them. Now they are fuzzy when double-tapped and enlarged. Originally (at beginning of iBooks) they popped up looking quite crisp.
Oddly, I can still get crisp images with double-tap if I export an ePub file from Scrivener, and import it into iBooks—using the same images I'm used in Pages.
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Hi,
Does anyone know of a way to add metadata apart from the fields that
already are available in the ePub export dialog and XMP panels? The
iBookstore requires a bunch of stuff that I can't find any place to add.
This trial script that I've put together does add an entry to the DC
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from Tomaxxi's website that I got quite a lot of help for the script.)
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Ariel
PS I hope the following script comes through ok. I've got to post this
via email, which often mangles things. Apologies in advance if that is
the case.
myDocXMP = app.activeDocument.metadataPreferences;
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Hi David,
Right. I also suspect that ID is "hardwired" to export only specific
categories of metadata. And even if I can add to the DC metadata, it
still won't come through on export -- that's my guess. But maybe,
hopefully, I'm wrong.
The script that I posted does add metadata to the DC category (as can
been seen under the Advanced tab of the XMP Panel). But it adds it in a
slightly funny way (as an alt container, and not an alt-text container;
there's no scripting option that I can see for creating alt-text
containers, but, on the other hand, I don't know what the difference
between the two types is). Also, it creates some sort of weird array
(hence the ).
In short, the script doesn't prove that ID won't export additional
metadata if it's added in the right way.
I wonder what you mean by "adding custom metadata" in a non-printing
story? Also, if that ends up in a .xhtml file that's not so useful,
because we need it to land up in the content.opf file to be of any use,
I think?
Again, I'm not sure what PRISM categories are. But I did actually
download the XMP SDK at one point, though I never really explored it. If
your extra metadata exported to PDF, would it export to ePub as well?
Did you try exporting with CS4, even if not with CS5.5?
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Ariel

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I have created an ePub from an InDesign book file. After running the file through ePubCheck, I came up with twenty-some odd errors, most of which I fixed. One nasty one remains.
WARNING
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24
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Did you turn on Document Metadata on the Advanced panel of the EPUB Export dialog?
The reason I'm asking is that your error message points to line 6 of the Contents.opf file within the EPUB package.
Here's a capture of the Contents.opf in an EPUB file I've created. Notice line 6 refers to the Document Title:
That's what's missing and causing your error.
BTW, I know you're trying to avoid dealing with the code within an EPUB file, but you're going to severely limited in what you can do until you being to learn about the way the EPUB is structured, and learn a little about HTML and CSS.

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I have CC. Why do I have to pay more to export?

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