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Tehue
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July 3, 2023
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Table of contents leading to images for reflowable epub

  • July 3, 2023
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Hi everyone

I am making a ebook to publish on kindle, this book in every chapter it starts with an image (this image occupies the entire page). I have been for quite some time trying to figure out how to make a table of contents that leads to a image.

Anyone knows how? 

 

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Mike Witherell
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Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
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July 4, 2023

My suggestion would be to make a paragraph style applied to text that describes the image. Put this text box under the image so that the image covers it, maybe on its own layer. Use the Layout > Table of Contents generator to make the ToC, which might sit on a page or off to one side of a page on the pasteboard. Use the Articles panel to include graphics and text that you want in the epub, but leave out of the Article panel the textboxes that describe the images and which are used to make the ToC.

Mike Witherell
    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
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    July 4, 2023

    That's it. Create a style ("ImageAnchor") that is formatted to hold the image exactly as you want it to appear. (Create a corresponding object style for the images, as well, for consistent formatting and control.) Then include 'ImageAnchor' as a TOC element.

     

    What can be difficult is including a TOC entry with meaningful text. You can put the text ("Chapter One: The Horror") in the image anchor style, but making that text invisible in the exported EPUB can be tricky. One method is to make the text tiny (1-2pt) and white, although that will show on a dark reader background. There are other methods, but they get increasingly complex and require CSS styling of the exported file, and work erratically on various EPUB viewers.

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