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Endnotes not linking epub export

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April 4, 2020
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Endnotes not linking in epub export. I see the same question has been unanswered in many threads. It used to work fine with InDesign CC 2017. Now, the latest version doesn't work. I spent hours creating 500 end notes in the print version.

Is there any fix available to this?

Thanks and Regards

Eswari

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Correct answer Eshu153

Thank you.

But, fortunately, I was able to figure out the issue. It's the text frames with baseline grid-enabled issue. Once I turn off the baseline grid, I was able to convert all endnotes to footnotes and successfully generated my epub.

Thanks and Regards

Eswari

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Laubender

Community Expert

Roope Koski said: "1. Exported PDFs generally work, except if your endnote style has Adobe World-Ready Paragaph Composer enabled. In this case links back from endnotes are broken."

The issue with Adobe World-Ready Paragaph Composer and endnotes linking seems to be known to the developers.

At InDesign UserVoice Adobe's Ravi Kiran (Senior Lead Quality Engineer, Adobe InDesign) said: "Thanks for reporting the issue of backlinking not working for Endnotes with WR Composers. We’re going to review this shortly." That was on February 10, 2021 in my bug report here:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/42062446-text-formatting-can-break-backlinking-endnote-text

FWIW: My report did not mention the Adobe World-Ready Paragaph Composer at all.

I had other issues with endnote formatting that prevented back and forth linking of endnotes. All my findings are listed in that bug report. Also see into the comments section of this report.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

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Roope Koski

Participating Frequently

The last post of Oston5EB3 makes sense.

Notes in exported PDF and ePub are buggy. The problem is that when you click a note in the exported file, nothing happens.

Here is what I found so far.

EPUB

1. Export with endnotes and "Split EPUB" checked for some styles -> links to notes broken

2. Convert endnotes to footnotes -> notes work as pop-ups, as expected, (but need to re-convert every time when you export PDF)

3. Keep endnotes and remove "Split EPUB" from all styles -> notes work as endnotes, even if you want them as pop-ups.

PDF

1. Exported PDFs generally work, except if your endnote style has Adobe World-Ready Paragaph Composer enabled. In this case links back from endnotes are broken.

2. Switch back to Adobe Paragraph Composer and links work back and forth

3. If you need World-Ready, create backlinks manually

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

There is rarely any reason to use Split EPUB, at least as an ID export.

Just about the only reason for multi-file EPUBs is for ease of creation and management when using the manual editors and EPUB creators, which doesn't apply for ID development. Dividing up the content (to multiple internal XHTML files) is largely pointless.

The one place where splitting a large EPUB can be useful is for online/web access. I believe some readers can download one content document at a time, speeding up access to any given section of a document. But that again is something of a niche use. (IMHO, if you're going to put a large document up for web access, use HTML, not EPUB.)

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Roope Koski

Participating Frequently

NitroPress, I am using Split EPUB for retaining some of the layout structure of a PDF in reflowable epubs.

The texts I edit have introductions, and I want the actual content to begin on a new page with the title of the translated text on top. Especially I don't want situations where half of the title appear at the bottom of the page, glued to the end of the introduction.

Is there a better way to do this than with Split EPUB?

Thanks

Peter Villevoye

Community Expert

I'm not familiar with the current Footnotes/Endnotes state of the art (and its bugs...)

I do know that in case of errors, and other mayhem, everyone turns to Peter Kahrel.

However, he retired. But his repository of scripts and documentation is still avaliable:

https://indesignsecrets.com/peter-kahrels-script-repository-comes-to-creativepro.php

Eshu153AuthorCorrect answer

Inspiring

Thank you.

But, fortunately, I was able to figure out the issue. It's the text frames with baseline grid-enabled issue. Once I turn off the baseline grid, I was able to convert all endnotes to footnotes and successfully generated my epub.

Thanks and Regards

Eswari

Peter Villevoye

Community Expert

What a coincidence !! A few weeks ago I helped processing a book into an interactive PDF and reflowable ePub. The PDF was easy (all table of content and endnotes links, back and forth) worked immediately. The ePub was a terrible feat ! The table of content worked (both the visual one and the structurally generated one), but the endnotes didn't. Well, not always, but as the work progressed, the file went corrupt.

We didn't have the time to investigate it thoroughly, but we did find out that from a certain point in the document or moment in time working on it, InDesign didn't create properly formatted hyperlinks anymore. The links to go to and return from an endnote didn't include the file name (it was just a numbered anchor). We eventually and manually corrected them in the HTML (there were only around 80 of them), and didn't bother figuring out the exact reason or pattern for InDesign to behave that way.

Your findings might be helpful to discover the real bug behind it !

I'll try to reproduce your procedure and see what happens, soon.

Thank you for reporting back on this 🙂

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