many, many blank pages in the middle of epub

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Hello there!I am building a reflowable epub from a book document. Suddenly a lot of blank pages are appearing in the middle of the epub when I export from inDesign. Like, a LOT. The book is 500 pages but the exports are turning out nearly 20,000 pages! What's even weirder is that if I work on the document and re-export, the thousands of blank pages appear in a different area of the book. They do always appear in the same chapter document though.Any thoughts?

suikomccall · Accepted Answer

Ok, after messing around a little longer it is beginning to look like if I wait 10 minutes or so with the ePub open after trying to resize or change the shape of the window, the pages go up to 20,000 and then go back down to 500. So perhaps this is all a processing issue with iBooks?

Thanks again for your help!

Willi Adelberger · Answer

Do you use paragraph styles? (You should.)
What are the TAG EXPORT settings in your Paragraph Style?

Do you use several returns in a raw? You should not to so and EPUB export should normally ignore it.
Are all images anchored in the story? Necessary to get them on the correct place and not on the end.
Do you have text frames on the master? You should only have text frames on the master for running headers and page numbers, not for text. Except primary text frames. Reapplying a master causes overlapping text frames which can be the cause for empty pages in the EPUB export. Text frames are only allowed on pages not on ther master or parent pages.

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