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Hugh-writer
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February 9, 2025
Question

misplaced characters in ePub doc

my document is misplacing quotes and appostrophies in the ePub rendition of my Indesign files that are correct in the indd and the PDF. is there a fix for this problem? IngramSpark says: (OPF-053): /OEBPS/content.opf: Date value "2025/02/03" does not follow recommended syntax as per http:[For input string: "2025/02/03"] is not an integer.

I do know understand what that means appart from, it doesn't work.

the example follows:

 

 

London,July1914

Sighing,Jamesrosefromhischair,pushedhishandsinhisjacketpockets,andwalkedovertothewindowtostareoutattherain.“Christ.”Heturnedandwithlittleemotionsaid,“It’snothingwehaven’tdonebefore,Anthony.”

“IamfullyawareofthatJames,butifyouwillrememberweareretired.”

“Yesbut—”

“Listen,wedecidedtogetherbackin1901thatwehadhadenoughofthebloodyarmy,enoughofbloodySouthAfrica,and,”slidinghischairaroundtolookJamesintheeye,hecontinued,“especially,enoughofLordbloodyKitchener.Whatmakesyouthinkitwillbeanydifferent

 

Woah! That was a straight copy & past from the ePub chapter, the Marks are in the right places now, but there is no spacing.

What appears in the document looks like this: 

It's " nothing we havent done before ".Anthony

I"  am full arware of that ,James but if you will remember we are  " .retired

Yes " " -but

'Listen" we...

PoodleHugh

2 commentaires

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
February 9, 2025

And, I didn't quite say this: formatting in the source file, for print and for PDF is quite different from formatting for EPUB. It's not at all uncommon to have to have a separately-formatted source for optimal EPUB export.

 

But more details on your project, formats and workflow will help here.

    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
    Legend
    February 9, 2025

    Need a few details, here. First, are you exporting to FXL (fixed-page) or reflowable? (To skip to the end, you should not be exporting to FXL for a "text" book.)

     

    If you're exporting to reflowable and spec'ing/embedding fonts — it's best not to . Create your EPUB using only generic font types and let the reader manage font, size, spacing etc. selections, which it (and the user) will whether you like it or not.

     

    Those are broad steps; we'll need to know more before the weird spacing issues can be addressed.

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      Hugh-writerAuteur
      Participant
      February 9, 2025

      Thanks for responding quickly. I had tried FXT and it was refused by the
      printer. Something about missing stuff that I couldn't possibly comprehend.
      So I went to a program called ePub +, perhaps a bad move.

      I tried reflowable to produce the sample I included for you. Odd how it was
      reproduced when pasted in place.

      The font I used for the text was all Garamond Normal, except for the last
      two lines using Timberline. that's not embedded though, 'The End' and
      'Espionage'. Would that be enough to mess it up? I should try using...
      what? Ariel perhaps?


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