Unit em on EPUB

Hi kind ALL,
We have this issue about the "em" unit as a universal unit when converting epubs from Indesign and it seems that there are some ebook vendors that doesn't really like using the "em" unit for margins on epubs.
Is there a way on how to change the unit "em" of margins on the Indesign itself? when converting to epubs? say like we would like to change it into "pt" or "px"? other than doing it manually?
Opinions and suggestions are really much appreciated.
Thanks.

You can edit the CSS file after exporting to epub and then in CS5 there is an option to choose which css file you would like to use when creating the epub, so you don't have to edit it every time you export to epub.
If you are not using CS5 you just have to drag the css file into the the epub to replace the one InDesign created with the one you have.

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HT4168 epub: I'd like to create chapters for the TOC but don't want the new chapter to begin on a new page. I'd like it to begin on the same page as the prior chapter. How can I do that?

How can I do this? I currently have my TOC chapters listed as Apples, Oranges, and so on. But my text chapters begin something like this:
1
Apples
2
Oranges
I have "Apples" with header 1, "Oranges" with header 1, etc., so that very nicely in the TOC it is listing my topics as the chapters. However, within the body of the document, 1 appears on one page and "Apples" begins at the top of a new page, separated from "1"; 2 appears one one page and "Oranges" appears at the top of the next page (separated from the "2), and so on.
Because of the way the book is structured, I need to have the chapter numbers on a top line and the chapter topic beneath it. (The book is further subdivided, such as 1.3a, 1.3b, etc.)
What I would like is for the TOC to indicate my chapters as Apples, Oranges, etc., but for the chapter text to begin as indicated above.
How can I do this? Thanks.

Peter, I styled the wording of the chapter title (e.g. apples) with my heading1 styling and my sub-chapter titles were heading2. The text is a different font, different color, different size, different everything. It seems that the epub program has an automatic format to start a new page with each new header. That's what I'm trying to work around. (Originally I styled both the numeral and the chapter title as "heading 1" and it gave each a different page!)
I am in the process of removing all headers and styling everything manually (which is how it was originally) just to avoid this problem.
I'm having my e-book done through a publisher (this will be self-published), so I'll be giving them a .docx and they'll convert it to .html (filtered) then .epub. so I need something that creates my Table of Contents as I'd like it, without messing up the text of the book.
I can give them a list of what I want in the Table of Contents, and have them manually do it, but the TOC may or may not come out how I want it to come out. My preference is to have something automatic. I wanted the sub-units (heading 2) in the TOC but that will never work since I have over 200 of them and it's too much for them to do manually. It's a very slow process.

Pages to ePub observations and hints

I've been experimenting with exporting ePubs. Here are some things I have have found that may help others.
These observations are based on Pages v4.1 and iBooks v2.0.1
These truths might be invalidated when new versions of Pages and/or iBooks appear.
There may be subtle distinctions and/or situations where these observations don't work as described. Or maybe for some of them, I have gotten close to the truth but not fully realized it completely yet. Experiment with them at your will.
1. Pages does not and will not insert any "page breaks" (or css causing that effect) in an ePub file per se. When exporting to ePub, Pages ignores any and all page breaks or section breaks you insert into a Pages document. Instead, it splits what it considers to be chapters each into separate xhtml files within the created ePub container. It seems that iBooks is hardcoded to automatically display each xhtml file beginning on a new "page."
2. According to Apple's "ePub Best Practices" document, Pages considers chapters to be delimited by instances of text of the style "Chapter Name". I have found that changing the name of that style does not effect the resulting ePub. Therefore, it is not the style's name that informs pages to use it as the chapter delimiter. Instead, I have found that Pages will look at all the styles you have marked as to be included in the TOC (hereafter called "TOC-included-styles"). Whichever one of these happens to be used first in the document, will be the style that Pages will use to parse chapters, unless the first TOC-included-style used is named "Chapter Number". In this case, that instance of "Chapter Number" is skipped over when considering the style to use as chapter delimiter, and the next TOC-included-style found will be used.
3. Unlike "Chapter Name", the style named "Chapter Number" is required be to named "Chapter Number". This style further affects the splitting of the xhtml files, and therefore, iBook's rendering of "page breaks". An exported ePub will normally be split into xhtml files at the first character of all instances of "Chapter Name". A document that also includes any "Chapter Number" instances will be split at the first character of those instances. The rule, in plain english, would be: split into xhtml files at instances of 'Chapter Name', but if any particular 'Chapter Name' instance has a 'Chapter Number' instance before it, back up and make the split immediately before that 'Chapter Number'. If a "Chapter Name" instance has more than one instance of "Chapter Number" before it, the split will happen at the earliest instance of "Chapter Number" until a previous "Chapter Name" is found. If the last "Chapter Name" instance in a document has any "Chapter Number" instances after it, there will be no split at those "Chapter Number" instances. Any other styles in between any of these instances are preserved, so you could have a new page in iBooks with a chapter number, followed by some text, then the chapter's name. If you rename the "Chapter Number" style to something else, it is then considered like any other style and has no affect on resulting ePub structure.
4. If you insert a TOC into your Pages document, it is ignored for ePub export. The TOC created in an ePub will include whatever styles are checked in the Document->TOC inspector. The ePub TOCs as generated by Pages seem to have only two levels of indentation. The high level is the chapter level, as described above, whatever TOC-included-style appears first in the document will be the chapter delimiter and be the least indented level of the TOC. All other TOC-included-styles, no matter what they are named or how they are configured in Pages, will be placed at indent level two in the resulting ePub's TOC. So, a style does not need to be named "Heading" to be included in the ePub TOC, it just needs to be a TOC-included-style.
5. You can add however many images you want to a chapter, but if the combined file size of the images in that chapter add to more than 1Mb, then the resulting ePub will not display any of the images which cause the size of that chapter to surpass 1Mb.
6. There is talk that a "magic" resolution for images is 600x860 in order to have them occupy a full "page" in the resulting ePub. I have found that any image whose pixel resolution fills the iBooks page viewport will do that, if the image is also set to cause wrap-with-clear-space on the left and/or right. The iBooks viewport seems to be 368x569 pixels when the iPad is held in landscape orientation. So in other words, no matter how large your image is, when viewing on the iPad in landscape mode, it will be at the most 368x569 physical iPad pixels. Therefore it seems to me, if you only wanted to view a book in landscape mode, you could make all your images exactly 368x569, and not larger, making the resultant ePub file as small as possible. But you'd probably want to design the book for portrait mode as well. In portrait mode, the viewport seems to be 547x???. Where I have not taken the time to deduce the exact vertical viewport dimension, but I know it is close to 780px, either way, the image can be smaller than 600x860. iBooks will shrink any image larger than the viewport at hand (portrait or landscape) to fit the viewport. If the aspect ratio of the image differs greatly from the viewport, the image will appear "letterboxed" because the aspect ratio of the image is maintained as it is shrunk to fit the page's viewport.
7. The margins of your Pages document, whether they be document-wide margins, or margins within a section, don't seem to affect the resulting ePub. The document-wide-margins and the layout-margins (in a section) can be set to zero. The on-the-ruler margins can be at the edges of the "paper." Extranious tabs on the rulers can affect things. I find it is best to drag all tab stops off the rulers.
8. Tables are problematic. They are not good constructs to put in ePubs. Pages will dimension tables/columns width based on percentages. So if the overall width of your table drawn in Pages happens to be 50% the width of the "paper", then in iBooks on the iPad, the table will be 50% of the width of iPad's page viewport. An 8.5x11 "sheet" of paper shown in Pages is typically defined as 612 pixels wide* (change your Pages ruler units preferences to Points to verify, the Document inspector will show the page size in pixels). So if you draw your table half the width of that sheet, you get a table 306px wide in Pages. That's pretty good, you can fit a bit of text in a table that wide. But now you export to ePub, and since the iPad's (landscape) viewport is only 368 pixels wide, your resulting table is 50% of that, or 184px wide. Since the size of the text hasn't changed much, now everything is wrapping and going crazy. Column widths are also generated as percentages of the table's width, so a column that fits its content nicely in Pages is now too narrow in the ePub. Confusion ensues. Incidentally, the above assumes your document left and right margins are set to zero, if not, the percentage of width is calculated between the margins, not the edges of the page. What you can do is make the table 100% of the width of the page, in that case the resulting table in the ePub will always be 100% of the width of the page viewport on the iPad. For a bit of left and right margin, you can throw in an empty column to the left and an empty column to the right of your table's content, then shut off the border lines for those side columns so they aren't seen. This won't solve your problems, but might take some of the pain away. If a user cranks the font size up as high as it will go on the iPad, no table remains standing.
* if you do any measuring with on-screen rulers, make sure you set Page's zoom to 100% first, as it defaults to 125%!
9. If you want to get a clue as to how your book will flow on the iPad (in landscape mode for example), you can temporarily set your document's Page Size to be 368x569 pixels (will all margins set to zero). You set Page Size and Margins in pixels (in inspector) by first changing the ruler units to Points in Page's settings. Be careful though, it's an approximate result, not exact WYSIWYG, the words won't end up exactly where you see them.
10. If you have read thus far, you probably already know that the first (on-screen) page of a Pages document can be used to automatically create the ePub's cover image upon export. As mentioned elsewhere on the 'net, floating images can be used on this first page (if they are used elsewhere they are ignored). I have found that shapes, specifically floating shapes can be used on the first page as well. You can even use background shapes! This unlocks the door to creating some truly nice covers with a minimum of work. I have here attached an image of a cover I created in just a couple of minutes without using Photoshop or any other image editor, just Pages. I will describe below how it is done
All the objects on the first page (shown above) is set to floating or background, therefore, you need to move the inline text to the next page. You can do this by inserting a section break. You can see it in the upper left corner. That forces all the text to be shuttled off to next page, out of the way.
First I created the swirly pattern background. To do so, create a box shape on the page and immediately set its Placement properties to "in background". Keep "background objects selectable" and resize it to cover the entire page. Remove any border or shadow from it. Then set its Fill to any seamless pattern you like. Keep the pattern pixel dimensions small so as not to create a large ePub. This particular swirly pattern I created very quickly for free at patterncooler dot com. Set the fill properties to "Tile" so that your pattern is tiled throughout the whole box shape. Now you can uncheck "background objects selectable" so that you can work on top of it without disturbing it.
The size of the pattern repeat itself is important to consider. The book cover will be seen in two places: on iBook's bookshelf (small), and opposite the table of contents in the book itself if the iPad is held in landscape mode. If the size of the repeat is too small, then you cant really make out the pattern in the bookshelf icon because the whole cover has been shrunk down, if the repeat is too large, it might look nice on the bookshelf but funny opposite the TOC. You'll have to experiment, but the repeat used in this example is a good compromise.
Next the brown spine down the left hand side is another box shape. This one's placement is set to "floating". Stretch it to the edges of the page. I filled this one with a subtle gradient to give it a slightly 3 dimensional look. Remember that iBooks will overlay shade an indentation along the left edge to appear as a crease. So dont make it too dark. Remove any border from this box, but give it a shadow on the right, just enought to make it appear affixed on the book. I used shadow settings of Offset 1pt, Blur 6pt, Opacity 75% at an angle of 323. Too much offset or blur ruins the effect. You want it to appear as a very thin layer adhesed to the "book". As for colors, use the eyedropper on the color inspector to pick colors from the background pattern, this will make it "work together" if you are color challenged.
The stitching on the right edge of the spine shape is a simple line shape 2 pts wide. Properties are: dotted, with a very slight shadow (2,4,85%,315). You can use the "bring forward" or "send backward" commands if the stack order gets mixed up.
Next add the Title and Author boxes. They are simple floating box shapes with color fill, and simple black border of 3px. Page's pop-up alignment guides will help you center them in the page. There is no shadow for these boxes as they (here) are supposed to mimic a printed and not a physical adhesion. Instead of a line border, you can also apply Page's "picture frame borders. I went crazy with those, but ultimately came back to the simple line border.
If you want to make these "adhesions" there are lots of nice paper textures on the 'net you can use as fill.
Finally you see there is a slight highlight on the top edge of the book and slight shadow along the right and bottom edge. These make the cover seem to have rounded edges, they give it a 3D appearance. To create the right hand "round over" draw a line-shape the height of the page. Make it 5px wide, and give it shadow properties of 5,4,50%,142. Next you have to move it so that it is slightly off the paper and thus not seen, but close enough that it's shadow is still seen. To move it, you can use a combination of the mouse, the arrow buttons on the keyboard, and/or the position inspector pane. In my example, the page is 600px wide, and the line sits at the 601px location. Be careful about moving shapes off the page, as you can "lose" them. Oddly enough, there is no way to see and/or find shapes that are "off page" (that I know of anyway). If you lose a shape off the page, you have to draw selection boxes blindly, until you stumble upon the shape again. It seems a way to hide content if one so desired.
For the bottom edge of the book, do the same thing with a horizontal line. Shadow angle in my example is the same 142 degrees.
For the top edge, do the same except make the shadow color white. (5,5,50%,270). This shape is hard to select once you have it offscreen. If you want to select it, you might have to move the background and right edge shadow out of the way first. Then draw a small box at the top right corner of the page until you hit it.
And one last detail, you might notice my page size is 600x860px (8.333in x 11.944in). This is because I think this aspect ratio is shaped more like a novel than than 8.5x11in (612x792px). The latter is squarer, and more the shape of a text book.
I hope this stuff has been useful to you.
Dave

Thank you for sharing such an informative post! I'd like to offer one small correction.
My company publishes children's picture storybooks in print. These are edge to edge full color pages for those who may not be familiar with this format. Our early ePub's were always disappointing in that we could not duplicate the print format without showing considerable white margins on an e-reader. We have since solved that problem in order to achieve the maximum image size. There will always be some amount of white margin in ePub format, but our image output now nearly fills the screen of any e-reader.
The 600X860 resolution is correct in order to achieve a wall to wall ePub image. The image must be created at that resolution for insertion into the document, and the page setup must also be set at the same dimension, which in inches is 8.333X11.944. You cannot, for example, use a smaller size image and drag it with constrained proportions to fill the viewport at the 600X860 resolution. The exported ePub file recognizes the portion of the image that is beyond the margins of the viewport and it will show up in an e-reader with a large white bottom margin.
Dragging a smaller image than the 600X860 resolution to fill the viewport with unconstrained proportions will work, but of course distorts the image. So, create your images at 600X860, insert them into your doc, export to ePub and you will be happy, happy, happy!

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.

EPub margins in Ems, how? CS6

Hi,
In the User Guide for CS6, in the chapter on ePub export, it says:
"Specify a simple margin in Ems or pixels. Specifying margins in Ems is
better for multiscreen compatibility."
I do not see any choice in the Export ePub dialog for specifying ems as
the unit of choice for the margins. Also, typing "1 em" gives an error.
Have I missed something?
Thanks,
Ariel

Thanks for pointing this issue out, and am sorry for the confusion it caused.
I'll have a look and update the documentation accordingly.

InD CS6, what happened to margin-top CSS property in EPUB?

I have been playing around with EPUB export in InDesign CS6. What surprised me the most is the missing CSS property. What's the reason to leave margin-top property out from the paragraph styles? Is this a feature, a bug or am I just doing something wrong? Others noticed this also?
Other thing which surprised me is the unit they use in margins. Earlier it was em but now it's pixel. Any way to change this?

@Steve,
When I turned the computer on this morning it said updates were available: CS6 2.02, I believe-although I can't remember for sure or find that version listed now on any "About" screen. I just clicked "Yes" to update. I'm not sure why they arrived for me but not you. I did have a problem with Acrobat X quitting yesterday (another CS6 bug) and had to deactivate and reactivate the package to get Acrobat to work. Don't know it that would affect updates though. I have never seen any availabe when I checked.
Anyway, the first thing I tested after the updates I received were installed was the epub export and nothing had changed regarding top spacing. Seems like we either have to add bottom spacing on previous paragraphs, use forced line breaks, edit CSS files, or create in CS5.5. For me, the latter still seems the easiest way to create an e-book after creating the print book.

Epub export indesign launches 'itunes store' not Adobe Digital Editions 2.0

How can I set Indesign to launch Adobe Digital Editions 2.0 as my default epub preview reader?
Mr Fox sir! I am trying to make a book for nook sir! Not an ipad, that would not do sir!

Dear Ellis,
I have been using paragraph returns for the spacing but I will try adding the Space before/Space After feature to see if that works better.
I'm taking my text from other word processing documents and shortening/breaking the paragraphs into smaller units for easier reading in ePub. It's easy and natural for me to hit a paragraph return where I want to break and form a new paragraph, and then insert a forced line break -- but I can try your suggestions.
I was just wondering why the system worked for me when reading on the iPod but Adobe Digital Reader did not seem to recognize the forced line break at all and only recognized the paragraph return if it was inserted AFTER the forced line break and not BEFORE it. Inserting the paragraph return AFTER the forced line break makes everything work on both units.

Unit Testing, Null, and Warnings

I have a Unit Test that includes the following lines:
Dim nullarray As Integer()()
Assert.AreEqual(nullarray.ToString(False), "Nothing")
The variable "nullarray" will obviously be null when ToString is called (ToString is an extension method, which is the one I am testing). This is by design, because the purpose of this specific unit test is to make sure that my ToString extension
method handles null values the way I expect. The test runs fine, but Visual Studio 2013 gives includes the following warning:
Variable 'nullarray' is used before it has been assigned a value. A null reference exception could result at runtime.
This warning is to be expected, and I don't want to stop Visual Studio 2013 from showing this warning or any other warnings, just this specific case (and several others that involve similar scenarios). Is there any way to mark a line or segment
of code so that it is not checked for warnings? Otherwise, I will end up with lots of warnings for things that I am perfectly aware of and don't plan on changing.
Nathan Sokalski [email protected] http://www.nathansokalski.com/

Hi Nathan Sokalski,
Variable 'nullarray' is used before it has been assigned a value. A null reference exception could result at runtime.
Whether the warning above was thrown when you built the test project but the test run successfully? I assume Yes.
Is there any way to mark a line or segment of code so that it is not checked for warnings?
There is no built-in way to make some code snippet or a code line not be checked during compiling, but we can configure some specific warnings not to be warned during compiling in Visual Basic through project Properties->Compile
tab->warning configurations box.
For detailed information, please see: Configuring Warnings in Visual Basic
Another way is to correct your code logic and make sure the code will not generate warning at runtime.
If I misunderstood you, please tell us what code you want it not to be checked for warnings with a sample so that we can further look at your issue.
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REJECT_CODE Vendor information and/or Operating Unit information is missing

hi
i am using Oracle Applications : 11.5.10.2.
i am trying to load suppliers and suppliers data into oracle AP.
i tried doing this with some sample data.
i executed the following code below :
insert into AP_SUPPLIERS_INT (VENDOR_INTERFACE_ID, VENDOR_NAME, SEGMENT1, STATUS)
values (*10006*,'XXX Financials2','199999','NEW');
i then ran the following process:
Supplier Open Interface Import
the supplier was added without errors
i then inserted a record into the
AP_SUPPLIER_SITES_INT table :
vendor_interface_id =*10006*,
LAST_UPDATE_DATE= SYSDATE,
LAST_UPDATED_BY          ='123',
VENDOR_SITE_CODE = 'true test' ,
CREATION_DATE     =SYSDATE ,
CREATED_BY     ='123' ,
PURCHASING_SITE_FLAG= 'N' ,
PAY_SITE_FLAG     = 'Y' ,
ATTENTION_AR_FLAG     = 'N' ,
ADDRESS_LINE1     ='gmmm df' ,
ADDRESS_LINE2     ='gmmm dfdv' ,
ADDRESS_LINE3     ='gmmm dfvdd' ,
ADDRESS_LINE4     ='gmmm dfvdd' ,
PAYMENT_METHOD_LOOKUP_CODE='Check' ,
TERMS_DATE_BASIS     ='Current' ,
ACCTS_PAY_CODE_COMBINATION_ID     = '1365' ,
PREPAY_CODE_COMBINATION_ID     = '1470' ,
PAYMENT_PRIORITY     = '99' ,
TERMS_ID= '10001' ,
INVOICE_AMOUNT_LIMIT =20,
PAY_DATE_BASIS_LOOKUP_CODE     = 'DISCOUNT' ,
ALWAYS_TAKE_DISC_FLAG= 'A' ,
INVOICE_CURRENCY_CODE     ='JMD' ,
PAYMENT_CURRENCY_CODE     ='JMD' ,
HOLD_ALL_PAYMENTS_FLAG='N' ,
HOLD_FUTURE_PAYMENTS_FLAG     ='N' ,
HOLD_UNMATCHED_INVOICES_FLAG= 'N' ,
EXCLUSIVE_PAYMENT_FLAG= 'N' ,
EXCLUDE_FREIGHT_FROM_DISCOUNT     = 'N' ,
ORG_ID= '142' ,
CREATE_DEBIT_MEMO_FLAG= 'N' ,
OFFSET_TAX_FLAG= 'N'
i then ran the following process:
Supplier Sites Open Interface Import
the process completes with a status of 'Normal'.
below is an extract of the output :
Supplier Sites Open Interface Import Execution Repor Page: 1
Import Options: All
Batch Size: 1000
Print Exceptions Only: No
Sites Open Interface Audit Report
Org Id Supplier Number Supplier Name Site Name
Total Sites Imported: 0
*** No Data Exists for this Report ***
Sites Open Interface Rejections Report
Org Id Supplier Number Supplier Name Site Name Reason
Total Sites Rejected: 0
when i checked the AP_SUPPLIER_SITES_INT table ,
the REJECT_CODE field has the value *'Vendor information and/or Operating Unit information is missing.'*
I THINK ALL THE REQUIRED FIELDS ARE POPULATED
why am i recieving this error ? is this caused by a bug? is there a required field that i didn't populated ?
please help me to solve this ....
thanks much!!

Hi,
Could you please check : Doc ID: 316368.1 of Metalink...
Symptoms_+
The Supplier Site Contacts Open Interface Import program is not importing certain contact
information.
The Supplier Site Contacts Open Interface Import Execution Report shows the following Rejection
Reason:
Vendor information and/or Operating Unit information is missing
Cause_+
The Last_name field is a required field.
As per the Oracle Payables User's Guide.
Appendix G-111
AP_SUP_SITE_CONTACT_INT chart shows the LAST_NAME is a Required field
Solution_+
As per the Oracle Payables User's Guide.
Appendix G-111
AP_SUP_SITE_CONTACT_INT chart shows the LAST_NAME is a Required field
If you test this out directly in the Suppliers window in Oracle Payables:
Navigation: Suppliers-Entry
Queried up a Supplier, then clicked into the Site field under the Contact tab.
Entered the contact information and omitted the Last Name, when trying to save the record,
the system gives the following message:
*'FRM-40202: Field must be entered' and the cursor is on the Last Name field. This is a required*
field and is the intended functionality.
Hope this will help
Regards,
S.P DASH

How do I change the way the title/author appear and is there any way to remove pages on EPUBs?

Hi all--
I am having a really hard time--I am trying to transfer EPUBs from my Win 7 comp to my Nook Tablet. I bought a lot of books from several non-BN sites because they were lots cheaper and were also sold in bundles--but the site was messed up and sent the books in PDF form rather than EPUB. PDF files won't read like a regular book on my Nook Tablet, so my friend offered to convert them to EPUB for me.
Most of the books turned out fine, but some of them now have a few extra pages at the beginning before the cover image and the correct title and author are not displaying--it seems to instead show the filepath where the file was saved on m friend's computer (C:\My Computer/Documents and Settings...etc.)
So, what I would like to do is be able to edit the EPUB files so I can delete the extra pages at the beginning so the correct cover image will be displayed and to be able to change the file's data sp it will show (and be searchable by) the correct title and author.
I am new to all this, so I appreciate any help you can offer. Thank you SO much for your help!!
--Jamie
P.S. Having the title and author show up correctly so they are searchable and appear in the correct place on my Nook Tablet is the top priority--correct cover pages would be nice aesthitically, but it is not that important.
****ALSO--does anyone know of an app or anything for the Nook Tablet that would allow PDF files to be read just like an EPUB/B&N=purchased book? Currently when I open a PDF, it shows the page in TINY print--you can use pinching to zoom in, but then the file enlarges so it is bigger than the screen, making it very hard to read. I can't figure out any way to enlarge the text but still fits the page like an EPUB does, so I'm wondering if there's an app that would do that--it's hard because you can't try apps before you buy them and I can't teel if they will work from the descriptions.

For sideloaded content the nook pulls the metadata from ePub file itself. I would suggest looking at a program like Sigil or Calibre that will let you edit the metadata in the book to make it appear like you want.
For the PDF vs ePub - No, that's the way PDFs work (think of them as graphics, not text), wheres ePubs are Web Pages - so no you can't them to behave exactly alike without converting the files.

Smart quotes and em-dashes in epub file

When I create an epub file from my InDesign book file, I find that sometimes (not always, thought!) my smart quotes and em-dashes revert to gibberish.
For example, when I open the epub file, the em-dash is fine, but in chapter 2, it changes to â€”.
Does anyone know how I might correct this?
Thanks so much!

It sounds like somethings wrong with the chapter's character encoding. The character encoding is declared in the header of the ePub HTML. From ID it's:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
This test has UTF-8 declared in the first line of its source code:
http://www.zenodesign.com/forum/encodetest/UTF8.html
And this has no encoding
http://www.zenodesign.com/forum/encodetest/None.html
Most browsers let you override or choose the character set, so in Safari if you set the character set to View>Text Encoding>default, you'll see a difference between the above links, but if you set it to Unicode (UTF-8) they both display correctly. In FireFox it's View>Character Encoding.
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HT2589 We have purchase 5 apple minis and would like them all on one account. That way we can monitor the use of these units. they will be used strickly for a business application. can I use one account in itunes or must i have multiple.

We have purchased 5 apple minis and would like them all on one account, that way we can monitor the use of these units. They will be used strickly for a business application. Can I use one account in itunes or must i have multiple.

Not going to happen the way you want it to.
When you add a gift card balance to the Apple ID, it's available for the Apple ID.
Probably best to create unique Apple ID's for each... this will also make things easier in the future as purchases are eternally tied to the Apple ID they were purchased with.

How do I move settings from one Airport unit to another?

I am considering buying one of those new Airport Expresses, the one with dual band. I have a few questions about importing the settings (from my existing Extreme unit):
- Is it true that it's better to start from scratch when setting up the new unit (vs. importing the settings from the old), because the performance will be better?
- Assuming I do import: Won't there be a problem where, even for a short time (that is, until I deactivate my old unit), I'll have two Airport units with the same settings running simultaneously? What should I do about that?
- How do I reset my old unit to its factory settings so I don't have my network name and password still stored in it?

I always prefer to factory reset. Never bother with importing, and when I do it didn't always work right for me anyway.
To reset the router to factory defaults, hold in the reset button as you plug it into the outlet. Keep holding the pin down until it flashes amber rapidly.

List view in mobile units.

Why is not list view a choice in mobile units?In my case Android.Its hard to have en overview in files when you only can scroll around i icon view.PLS fix for better user friendliness!!!Concern all mobile units i beleve.

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Error while defining alt unit of measurement in material master

All SAP gurus,
i am trying to define a alt unit of measurement in a finished material, the base unit of measurement is in MT, and the sales unit is nos. the conversion formula is 53 nos = 1kg i.e. 1MT = 53000 nos. as conversion can be done only with base unit of measurement i am giving 53000 nos = 1 MT, but system unable to calculate the conversion as it is not taking mere than 3 digit after decimal.
e.g. if 53000 nos = 1 MT
then 1 nos should be = 0.000018 MT
but system not taking this value as this value contain 6 digit after decimal
suggest me what can be the way out? with detailed steps. can i increase the post decimal value or i have to define another middle alt unit of measurement (like KG). and if that is to be done then how.
Regards
BKR

Hi,
With help of Basis team check the decimal places for u r user ID.
In t-code SU01 >>> Under Default tab
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