How to preserve vertical text in 'Fixed-Format' ePubs?

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August 25, 2020
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I'm exporting a textbook as a Fixed-Format ePub via InDesign 2020 but noticed vertical text get exported horizontally instead! Here is an example of what I mean:

Here's how it should look like:

Does anyone know how I can preserve the text rotation? There are hundreds of examples of this issue in the book. Would there be a 'global' setting/CSS to resolve this?

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Laubender

Community Expert

I would suggest you are looking for a bug report in InDesign UserVoice or doing your own report there:

https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs?category_id=209104&filter=top&page=1

FWIW: With Publish Online there is no bug with text rotation in table cells:

https://indd.adobe.com/view/6daea8fb-84ba-4ae5-94bb-f7c30843eb9a

Regards,
Uwe Laubender

( ACP )

rayek.elfin

Legend

Publish online converts the entire thing to a SVG. Basically cheating, because the text and table is converted to pure vectors. Its solution is identical to my previous advise: convert the table to a graphic. No text is retained.

At least the epub export attempts to retain the text as text.

rayek.elfin

Legend

PS In my opinion this is not a bug, but merely an unsupported feature in epubs. Beyond simple formatting, the epub format is as fragile as a house of crystal cards. Not the fault of InDesign or the developers.

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Gareth,

hi rayek_elfin,

tested rotated text in table cells with InDesign 15.1.1.103 on Windows 10.

InDesign's EPUB Interactivity Preview panel is already showing the bug: