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In ebooks, 'Real Page Numbers' (RPNs) are a pain and aren't as helpful as they seem. Just a few months ago, I wrote one such method in 'Create index on epub from printed book'. Many of those methods require you to put some sort of tag/character at the end of each page, then convert that using some outside tool, then manually link all the Index links. To my knowledge, not much has really changed since. I pointed to a 2015 article written by Joshua Tallent 'How to Add a page-list to an EPUB' (now dead, so here's an backup) + a 2015 article from EPUBSecrets, 'Page List: All the Cool Ebook Developers Are Doing It'. Outstanding ones from my perspective have been the realization that there are indesign plugins that export the page numbers into epub, here:Įven if you created InDesign Indexes, InDesign still doesn't export all the proper page numbers (pageList + page-list) to EPUB.īack in 2016, David Kudler asked a similar question in 'Getting InDesign to export pagelists to ePub3 (reflowable)'.

Indesign cc 2015 epub free#

Feel free to shoot holes, and help me out for the remainder of the series.Īs an edit: for those who come after, looking for a solution, there are valuable comments in the thread. I am posting this as a hack, but in this community it is likely there are minds that can spot weaknesses in my approach.

The whole index thing took me about two hours, from start to finish, for a 4k entry index. It is definitely a half-way solution, but one that can be simplified to some extent within Sigil, by using the Saved Searches functionality. Also, the index now only links to the page, and not to the proper paragraph or sentence, which might be possible in an ePub, but is now beyond the pale for this project. Also, there will be headers and/or footers, lots of unwanted hard and soft returns, whitespace, and no styles except (hopefully) italics, bold, super and subscripts.

Indesign cc 2015 epub pdf#

Sadly, bc of the PDF export, there is a lot of cleaning still to do, as hyphenation is not understood by acrobat's PDF reading and exporting system.

Indesign cc 2015 epub how to#

Thankfully, Sigil knows how to manage the links, once xhtml files are broken up.

Finally, splitting the book up into its logical chapters - usually one xhtml file per chapter, same with the notes etc.

There are ins and outs to this, that I will gloss over here.

Iterating through the index file, using regexes to find page numbers and link them to the proper anchor inside the book document.

Doing the same for the pages that are part of the index.

Then merging all the pages that are not the index into one xhtml file.

In Sigil, regexing the page numbers of the book to a self-closing tag with the proper id - like pxxx - and moving them into the topmost paragraph tag of the page.

This yields an epub with for each page an xhtml document.

Exporting the Word document to ePub with OpenOffice Writer's writer2ePub plugin.

This gives me the page numbers, which are carried with all the other header and footer stuff into the word file. Sadly, it does not.Īs one of the source files was not in indesign, but in QuarkXpress, and in a version which I do not have, I have experimented with loading the PDF into Acrobat and exporting it to a Word file. It would be really nice if indesign knew how to link page numbers, which it self-creates, to a list of page numbers in the same document. I am involved in a project that involves exporting to epub 15-20 books of about 500 pages each.Īll these books have large and essential indexes that need to make it into the epub, preferably linked.Īs the indexes were created by hand, and outside of indesign, that program does not know how to make them active.