My title page and Dedication keeps moving to the back of my EPUB

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
July 31, 2023
2 replies
516 views

When exported, my title page and Dedication keep moving to the back of my EPUB. My TOC reflects the order correctly, and I have ensured my page breaks are intact. I have also checked my paragraph styles. My threads show the correct order as well. What am I missing?

EPUB

This topic has been closed for replies.

Correct answer Mike Witherell

The Article Panel is the main way you organize the order of content in your EPUB.

https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/how-to/indesign-articles-panel.html

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

An EPUB must have one and only one text flow. Anything unanchored to that text flow, such as a cover image, TOC or other front material, will "fall to the bottom" on export. Mike's suggestion of using the Articles panel is not always reliable; the export process tends to dump all secondary text frames or articles no matter how you tell ID to handle them.

Put your title and dedication in the main text flow.

J

Jennifer23131133yztgAuthor

Participant

Thanks for the reply James,

How do I do that?

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

Just make them paragraphs at the very beginning, with appropriate styles —

MY TITLE

by J. Newbie

Dedicated to my pet turtle Glubglub

On the first day of summer....

And so forth. The contents of an EPUB export should be one text flow, one story, one article. There are ways to work around that, but they make other aspects of e-book management difficult in some way, for someone... all too often, the reader. Any time you have separate text frames (or unanchored graphics, etc.) they are going to be dumped to the end by the export process, or sometimes ignored.