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June 6, 2025
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Help Needed: EPUB and PDF Export Issues After Converting RTL Book to LTRHi, I’ve translated a book

  • June 6, 2025
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Hi,

I’ve translated a book originally designed in a right-to-left (RTL) language into English (left-to-right, LTR). I updated the document settings in InDesign accordingly.

However, I'm still facing two issues:

  1. When exporting to EPUB, it's treated as RTL — the page spreads appear in the wrong order.

  2. When exporting to PDF, I can’t set it to display the first page as a cover, followed by left-to-right facing pages.

I’ve already changed the document setup to LTR (binding: left to right), but these problems persist.
Could you please advise on how to fix this?

Thanks in advance!

1 reply

Inspiring
June 10, 2025

Re: the EPUB issue. You should go through the InDesign file to make sure that the language is set to English everywhere. It may be that some styles are still set to a right-to-left language which means that the EPUB is defaulting to RTL reading behaviour.