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How to export over 2,000 pages where every page is a table with hundreds of cells

  • August 11, 2023
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I have a huge document in InDesign (it's a Greek/English Interlinear New Testament) that I'm trying to export as a reflowable ePub. The problem is that every page is a table, with hundreds of cells. When I try to export it as a reflowable ePub, it exports the contents of every cell as an image.

Does anyone know how I can export this (it doesn't have to be an ePub) and maintain the text info? It's driving me nuts! Thanks in advance for any help.

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    BobLevine
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    BobLevineCommunity Expert
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    August 11, 2023

    I may be wrong but I seem to remember early versions of InDesign doing this (or maybe that was something else???). Regardless, what version are you using and what are your export settings?

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    Mark28256680k7bs作成者
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    August 11, 2023

    I'm using the latest version of InDesign (18.5). Regardless of my Reflowable ePub export settings I only get png images. 

    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
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    August 12, 2023

    Okay. Uh, holy cow, to coin a phrase, that's an enormous amount of work, and I salute both the effort and the accomplishment. But that layout format is never, ever going to export to a liquid e-book format. If I may show a quick snip:

     

     

    That's not in any way "a table" except in the loosest sense. While every text box appears to be nothing but text, with the rule in between, I can't think of an export method that could preserve that "mosaic" structure (again, forgive the slight pun there). ID converting each element to a graphic, which is something I've never seen it do, is its best compromise.

     

    I would say that PDF is the only electronic format that could handle this. That and FXL EPUB, which is normally an obsolete format to be avoided, but it would just produce much the same effect as the PDF with a far less consistent or reliable result.

     

    Impressive piece of work, though. But it's for printing, the effectively-"printing" of PDF or, I guess, carving on stone. 🙂


    Replying on my phone so can't check right now  - are those Tables inside TFs placed as InLine Objects in the Story? 

     

      James Gifford—NitroPress
      James Gifford—NitroPress
      Legend
      August 11, 2023

      Reflowable EPUB does not typically do any kind of image conversion such as you note — that's a hallmark of fixed-layout EPUB, FXL Are you quite sure you're exporting to Reflowable EPUB?

       

      There are export options wherein graphical elements can be processed into (most commonly) flattened graphics — for example, if you have a photo with a couple of annotations and arrows added in ID, it will not export in that form with any accuracy. If you specify that the contents of that frame are to be rasterized, ID will do just that, turn the whole image content into a single raster file. Something like that might be happening with your tables.

       

      So, assuming you are exporting to reflowable — is the content of your document 100% text, even in the table cells? Or have you placed elements as graphical ones in those cells?

       

      All said, though, if you want a digital, e-book version... PDF is probably a better solution in every way.

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