Random page rasterizing when exporting to epub

[Mallred88]

When I go to export my InDesign book file to epub (reflowable) for some reason I get this random rasterized page from earlier in the chapter added to the end of the ebook when exported. I've tried everything, help please! 

[Derek Cross]

Assuming you want to include these rasterised pages but they are in the wrong order (at the end), try anchoring them in place. But in any case you may have spacing issues when the book reflows., might there be a better way of including this text, such as normal text in a smaller size and/or indented?

[Mallred88]

Thanks for the response, @Derek Cross. I do not want to include them at the end at all. I have them in the regular typeset book so I don't want them rasterized. They are earlier in the chapter as I expected but then also rasterized at the end of the chapter. I'm thinking about deleting the file and starting a new chapter 1 again. I can't see any settings that are causing this.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

As far as I know, the only rasterizing reflowable export does is of the first page, to make an integral cover. (Not a practice recommended for anything but, perhaps, reports and the like where an internal title page is good enough for a cover image.)

Nothing else, AFAIK, should create rasterized pages. Make sure "Cover" is set to None or import-image.

[Mallred88]

@James Gifford—NitroPress I appreciate your response. I do not have the cover setting checked when exporting. This is the oddest thing I've experienced. I've done many books and never come across it. I can't find a setting that is causing it. 

I'll check out your resources recommended.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Huh. Well, try the big hammer: save the source file to IDML, then open that file and save to a new name INDD file, and try again. Of the many things that "purge" fixes, I can't think of a one that would cause this odd behavior, but it's worth a try.

[Mallred88]

Will do @James Gifford—NitroPress  

[Mallred88]

No dice, @James Gifford—NitroPress, since it's a book file I'm unable to save a single file as an IDML. I've tried a few things with no success. I will try rebuilding Chapter 1 again from scratch and see if it has the same issue. I've tried so many things at this point.

[James Gifford—NitroPress]

Okay. It was not clear that you were working from a Book structure ('book file' can be ambiguous).

The solution remains the same, but it does open another avenue of testing. First, try exporting each component INDD file to see if the rasterized content appears, and with which ones.

Then do the INDD-IDML-new INDD purge with any that do produce faulty content, or all of them. There's really no second fix I can think of for this. And since you're there already, create a new Book structure to make sure that feature isn't dragging in some kind of corruption (although it's pretty passive, on top of the individual component INDD files).

I remain baffled that a reflowable export is creating any rasterized content. However, I will ask this: within your chapter files, what's there that is not simple flowing text content? Placed PDFs or INDD files? Odd image file formats? Text boxes with highly formatted content? Any of those might trip up the export process and come out the other end as rasterized content.

[Mallred88 · Accepted solution]

Ok, so here's what I had to do. I went through and rebuilt the entire chapter from scratch and that did it. Something was off about the previous Chapter 1 files. What that is, I have no idea, but rebuilding it solved the issue. Thanks for the ideas everyone.