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Epub Code RSC-004

Community Beginner ,
Feb 25, 2023 Feb 25, 2023

Hello!

I´m trying to create a epub-file with InDesign.

When I check it with the Epub validator PAGINA, I get an information code RSC-004

and message: File "OEBPS/font/Georgia.ttf" could not be decrypted.

How do I fix it?

When I open the epub file in  Adobe Digital Edition it´s all a mess.

Best regards /

 

Janne from Sweden

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Community Expert ,
Feb 25, 2023 Feb 25, 2023

FXL ePub or Reflowable ePub?

Try changing the font to an OTF one.

What do you mean by "a mess"?

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 26, 2023 Feb 26, 2023

Reflowable ePub

Writing "a mess" I  mean that when opening up the epubfile the pictures and the text are not in order.

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Community Expert ,
Feb 26, 2023 Feb 26, 2023

Producing Reflowable ePubs is not intuitive. They follow the rules of HTML, that's why your text and images are not in the correct order. All images need to be anchored, text given Paragraph Styles, no page sizes or numbers, Parent page content is not implemented and so on. LinkedIn Learning has a very good step-by-steo online video tutorial which you'd find invaluable (you can get 30-days free access).

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023

Thank you for your answer.

I`m writing a short book with about 42 pages, it´s about  drugtreatment and I want to use it for my work. I started using InDesign in the beginning of 2022, a couple of hours a week first, then it became a couple of hours a day. I´m not familiar with the computerlingo, I´ve been watchin videos on Youtube, reading forum but I still have difficulties for understanding. For example "follow the rules of HTML" I don´t understand. It´s like you wrote, the text and pictures are not in order. It seems like the epubfile doesn´t know when a chapter stops and anew starts. I understand that it can be fixed and my knowledge is not enough. Again, thank you for yoyr answer, I didn´t expect get any answer.

Sincerely / Janne from Sweden

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Community Expert ,
Feb 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023

A good start on answers is in the guide for novices link I posted.

 

It may not help if you don't have any experience with web code, but EPUB documents are basically just "packaged web pages." They use HTML to define the content, and CSS to define the styles. If you know anything about those basics, it becomes a little easier to understand what's happening in an EPUB file, and even learn how to get advanced results.

 

To sum up what both Derek and I said, an InDesign document for EPUB export has to be one, single text flow. You can't break it up into different, unlinked text frames or have multiple text flows. And each illustration must be anchored to the point in that flow where you want it to appear in the EPUB.

 

If you just "paste" text frames and graphic frames to InDesign pages, without respecting that "one flow" rule, you will just get a jumble of elements, as the export process doesn't know how they go together as separate pieces.

 

Does that make sense?

 

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

I read the novice link.

Thank you for that.

I think I better read them more times.

Thank you again for your time and answer.

Sincerly / Janne

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

Happy to help further as needed to get you to your goal. Unless there are complex problems with a document, it is really quite easy to get an acceptable EPUB from InDesign.

 

Your English is fine, by the way. If it makes the forum more accessible, go ahead and post in Swedish; the built in translation system here is very good.

 

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Community Expert ,
Feb 27, 2023 Feb 27, 2023

An EPUB document has to be one text flow, with every element anchored to a relevant text point. You can't just paste things on pages as you can for print.

 

A good walkthrough tutorial, as Derek suggests, would help you understand the details.

 

You can also try a look at this informational post here:

 

And you can always ask more questions; it helps if you are specific. Hard to fix "a mess" from way over here. 🙂

 

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Community Expert ,
Feb 25, 2023 Feb 25, 2023

1) Validators are quite variable and, truth, not really of much use unless you are hand-assembling your EPUBs. EPUBs exported from a reliable creator like InDesign either work or they don't; minor validation warnings are irrelevant to 95% of the downstream.

 

2) Validators being variable, the only one really worth paying attention to is EPUBcheck. A bit tricky to use, since it's a command-line tool, but it's the only one that's up to date and standards-based. It is often used as the "engine" of other validators... but nearly all of those impose their own checks and preferences, making the validation questionable.

 

3) ADE is absolutely useless. Never use it to view EPUB, much less proof new work. Use a vanilla, standards-based reader like Thorium, with Calibre being a good second. All of the rest are broken, proprietary or otherwise poor choices to check a new export.

 

4) If it's a reflowable EPUB, don't embed fonts. Furthermore, don't spec fonts for EPUB at all.

 

5) If it's a fixed-page EPUB (FXL), you don't have the option to avoid embedding fonts, but that's just one of the many reasons to avoid FXL altogether. If you want EPUB, go with reflowable and an export that any reader can manage without interference like embedded fonts. If you want fixed page export, use PDF instead.

 

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023

Thank you for your answer.

I`m writing a short book with about 42 pages, it´s about  drugtreatment and I want to use it for my work. I started using InDesign in the beginning of 2022, a couple of hours a week first, then it became a couple of hours a day.

I´m not familiar with the computerlingo.

Thank you for the tip about the Thorium, it was good to se were the faults are.

I do have problem with opening EPUBcheck, installed it, I have the latest Java but still it don´t open...

I understand that it can be fixed and my knowledge is not enough.

Again, thank you for yoyr answer, I didn´t expect get any answer.

Sincerely / Janne from Sweden

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Community Expert ,
Feb 28, 2023 Feb 28, 2023

Why not use PDF as the format for your book?

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

That would be so much easier.

Unfortunately the distributors here in Sweden only requires  the reflowable Epub.

The book I have written is one of five that I want to release.

It´s totally 5 books, 4 of them are short (about 40 pages each one), the fifth is about 300 pages.

I really need them for my work.

It may take time. I've been trying for a year, but I won't give up. All the books are based on life and work experience regarding drug problems.

Excuse the grammar my english isn´t 100%.

Sincerly / Janne

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

My advice is to take your time and learn how to create properly formatted Reflowable ePubs. As I mentioned, LinkedinLearning.com have a great tutorial and you can get 30-days free access – "InDesign CC to EPUB" by Anne-Marie Concepción

 

Here's the tutorial's description from the site:
Learn how to create an ebook in Adobe InDesign. This course helps you convert an InDesign publication to a reflowable EPUB, the open-source ebook format that is the standard for most distribution channels, including Apple iBook Store, Barnes & Noble Nook book store, Google Play Books, Kobo, and OverDrive, and is the basis for Kindle ebooks. Instructor Anne-Marie Concepción explains exactly what an EPUB is, and then steps you through the process of editing and proofing in easy-to-follow stages. Learn how to prepare your InDesign file for EPUB conversion, convert Word manuscripts, optimize text and images, embed fonts, use free scripts, and add special features for accessibility and cleaner HTML and CSS. Anne-Marie reviews the many different export options, providing recommendations on which to choose; shows how to validate and proof your final export on mobile ereaders; and explains how to set up publisher accounts at resellers like the iBook Store and Amazon Kindle Store. Finally, she shows to convert an EPUB to the Kindle format and preview it on the desktop before uploading it to your Kindle Direct Publishing account.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

But no secret tricks for the perfect Thanksgiving turkey?

 

That is, IMVHO, too much information for one tutorial, and I suspect it skims over nothing but best-case scenarios, leaving any failure as the fault of the student who didn't pay enough attention.

 

Maybe not. Maybe I should go sit through it. But then, I have sat through quite a few such in the last few years, an have yet to see one I can truly recommend. Too many — most by far — try to take the student from two-fingered typing to KDP success, and that doesn't fit into an hour of video.

 

I doubt you'd recommend an equivalent tutorial on how to use InDesign, on exactly the same points. There simply is no one-size-fits-all answer for any ONE of those steps, much less the whole process.

 

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

An additional source of information worth considering – the current (March) edition of Creative Pro Magazine has a special section devoted to creating ePubs, you may find it really helpful.

https://creativepro.com/

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

Om jag väljer att exportera Epubfil med fast format och sedan öppnar upp boken med e-boksläsaren Thorium ser boken ut som den ska! Även då jag öppnar med Adobe Digital Editions!

Är det så viktigt att epubfilen är i flödbar format anser ni? 

Är tiden för böcker skapade med epub fast format föråldrad?

Ville bara höra era åsikter kring detta.

Tacksam för svar.

Vänligen /  Janne

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

Presumably, the book is text heavy (not heavily illustrated) if so, Reflowable ePub is the way to go. Is the book to be (also) distributed via Amazon?

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

Det stämmer, det är mycket mer text än bilder.

Amazon finns i Sverige, så förmodligen ja.

Då är det väl någon annat slags format förmodar jag.

Men jag tar en sak i taget, de som jag ska använda mig av (de tar betalt för tjänsten) riktar in sig till den målgrupp som jag vill nå.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

Reflowable ePub is the format to use on Amazon's Kindle (and other readers). The advantage of the Reflowable ePub is that the page size can change to suit the reading device – from computer to tablet to smartphone and the reader can change the font size and font to suit their requirements.

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

Hmm. The situation may be different in Sweden, or in your field or area of interest, but in general a "publisher" that charges for any service is a suspicious thing in the US. (That is distinguished from a "design" or "publication development" service, but it sounds as if you are doing all that work, to pay someone else to publish and distribute your books. I'd have questions about such an arrangement.)

 

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

Det är skillnad på USA och Sverige. Har kollat upp att allt är som det ska.

Nu är det en flödande epub-fil jag behöver lära mig att avsluta, för att sedan fortsätta med resterande eböcker. Men tack för din omtanke och alla råd!

Under dessa få dagar via detta forum har jag lärt mig mer än den senaste månaden.

Ha en trevlig kväll!

Vänligen / Janne

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Community Expert ,
Mar 01, 2023 Mar 01, 2023

Hi Janne

Glad to hear things are going well. I can recommend FlightDeck, an excellent paid-for epub checker and validator. https://ebookflightdeck.com/

Derek

 

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Community Beginner ,
Mar 03, 2023 Mar 03, 2023

Hej igen till er alla!

Tack för tipset! Verkar vara erfarna människor som arbetar med detta, samt en vettigt pris.

Här i Sverige är det betydligt dyrare att få hjälp med att få t.ex.en pdf-fil konverterad till en flödande epubfil. En av de största och mest pålitliga distributörerna för e-böcker har ett system att man laddar ned sin ebok i deras "bibliotek" - de sprider boken/böckerna vidare till de stora närbokhandlarna, bibliotek och skolor inom landet.  De tar ca.20% för varje såld bok.

Däremot är det ingen skatt som behöver betalas för eböcker, det är fördel (fysiska böcker har en skatt på 25% av all vinst, samt distributöternas procentdel och annat - personen som skrivit får i genomsnitt 15-20% av vinsten....)

Förutom det erbjuder de en tjänst där de omvandlar en pdf-fil på max 100 sidor för ca.2000 kronor (ungefär 200 dollar) till en peub-fil. Detta är väldigt dyrt anser jag. 

Men blev förvånad att Flight-Deck erbjuder liknande tjänst för 15 usdollar/månad för 5 boktitlar.

Ska ge InDesign ett par veckor till, förstår att all text ska ses som en sida. 

Vill verkligen kunna klara av det själv, känns dock bra att de finns hjälp från båder er, samt tjänsten jag fick tips om. Har fått lära mig det mesta själv, som ni kallar det "Trial and error" - prova genom att rycka mig fram, blir det fel. Jag har under de senaste två decennierna arbetat som alkohol och drogterapeut och detta är bokstavligen helt nytt för mig. Som skrivet tidigare - började jag i början av år 2022 med InDesign. Material som jag sammanställt från mitt arbete vill jag kunna nå ut med till fler människor som kan behöva hjälp med ett beroende av en substans via eböcker - tänker på de som inte vågar söka hjälp - här i Sverige blir en person som söker hjälp för missbruk/beroende av droger samtidigt med i en slags kriminell registreringen - detta innebär att många väljer att inte söka hjälp p.g.a. eventuella negativa konsekvenser. Man får sedan hjälp via beroendevården - det är en karusell i detta land då det gäller detta stora världproblem.

Att en epubfil omvandlas till HTML, att det ska ses som en sida, att koppla ihop bild med text etc.

Det sistnämnda håller jag på och försöker att få till de senaste tre dagarna - brukar sitta två-tre timmar efter mitt ordinarie 8-17 jobb.

Att det ska vara så svårt att koppla -länka- ihop text med bild

Eller för den delen - separera text med annan text, jag har lagt ramar kring varje textdel, samt de bilder som finns i boken.

Har kollat på Youtubevideos som är inriktade på just detta.

Några frågar har jag:

Det framgår i en tutorial som jag fick tips om följande råd:

"EPUB can be exported from multiple INDD files using the Book feature , but a single source file will often work better, and will avoid many export problems. Don't use the Book method unless you have to."

Utifrån andra råd, har jag valt "Book" som val, uppe till höger - bifogar ett foto för att tydliggöra.

Hur viktigt är det?

Skall jag ändra detta till något annat format?

Bifogar även foto på hur det kommer upp med epoksläsare Thorium - de sidor som jag försökt att förankra.

Ursäökta det långa inlägget, har för vana att ibland skriva för mycket.

Ha en trevlig helg!

Vänligen / Janne

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Community Expert ,
Mar 03, 2023 Mar 03, 2023

Unless you learn how to create Reflowable ePubs in an in-depth and methodical manner, as I have pointed out several times in previous posts, you are going to end up in a number of dead ends.

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