Fixed Layout ePub style problem: text-rendering attribute

[MH57]

M. Hogendoorn 24-mrt-2017 6:39 

Is there anyone who can tell me if the HTML-code that is rendered when exporting for FXL-epub can be influenced?

I have a peculiar issue: I am using the German characte ü (u-umlaut) on several spots in a text. On some spots in the tekst it is no problem, but on some spots the style attribute <text-rendering:optimizeLegibility;> is added. This causes problems: about 2 characters before and 2 character after the ü-position get completely scrambled 😞

I would like to control this export in a way that this text-rendering attribute is not exercised.

This is happening with Indesign CC 2017.0.

Thanks for any suggestions!

[Steve Werner]

Moving to InDesign EPUB forum.

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi,

could you identify and select the scrambled "ü" in the layout of your InDesign document and see if there are two glyphs at work instead of one?
Unicode 00FC should be there for a regular "ü". Check the Info palette on this.

Also check the language attribute for "Musikstücke" and "berührt". Maybe they differ from the language attributes left and right to it.

What you can see is that "ü" was substituted with "u" and perhaps "?" where the position of the "?" is way off.

How did you insert your text?

Was it a Word doc or Word docx import?

Regards,
Uwe

[MH57]

Uwe,

Big thanks! This did the trick. It was weird, there were indeed two characters, but the second one seemed like a minimal space, so was almost invisible. Do you have any idea what might have caused this? An incorrect paste action?

Anyway, you solved my mystery 🙂

Best wishes,

Marius

[Laubender]

Hi Marius,

could you show a screenshot of the Info panel after selecting the two characters on your InDesign document, the one "u" or "ü" plus the minimal space next to it? Or at least read out their Unicode values and post the values?
Maybe then we could identify the cause…

And again: How was the text iserted?

Copy/paste?

Word doc or docx import?

And if is was Word, do you have access to the files?

Regards,
Uwe