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July 14, 2023
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Export all export tags--how to sync for book

  • July 14, 2023
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I haven't exported a book to ePub for a while and am running up against an issue.

This is a book with multiple chapters in individual files and one file is the master for style source. I have synced all document styles in the book window, and have edited all export tags from the paragraph styles panel for the style source document.

The problem is that the other chapter files show a different set of edited export tags. So changes I have made in the style source for export tags aren't working because the other files don't reflect these settings.

I would have thought the export tags settings for the style source would take precedence. I'm not sure how this got to be like this but I can't figure out how to "reset" export tags for all the files so they are identical. I don't want to have to open 11 files and set each export tags to be the same, that is a nightmare amount of work, especially when you can't turn off all the checkmarks in the "emit CSS" column except by clicking each one.

 

 

ID 18.4 on Mac OS 13.4.1

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James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
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July 14, 2023

Hazarding a guess here, as I've never had this problem occur, but you may have to synchronize styles in the chapters themselves (import styles from your chosen master) rather than rely on the Book features to do it for you. I don't know if that (if anything, actually) imports Export Tag settings. A script may be needed if there isn't an inbuilt feature somewhere.

Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
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July 14, 2023

There have been some recent reports in the forums regarding synching chapters with InDesign's book utility. It's not working correctly. And the Export Tags settings have always been problematic for InDesign; they've never realiably transferred between documents (fonts, size, everything else works, but not the export tags). Don't know why this is.

 

@James Gifford—NitroPress, gives a valid workaround.

 

I recommend importing the sytles of your master file into the other book chapaters. From the Paragraph Styles Panel's options menu, select Load Styles. You'll have a choice of which Paragraph and Character styles to import, and whether you want to retain the destination style or override it with the incoming style.

 

Wish I had better news for you.

 

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