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Tehue
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July 3, 2023
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Table of contents leading to images for reflowable epub

  • July 3, 2023
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Hi everyone

I am making a ebook to publish on kindle, this book in every chapter it starts with an image (this image occupies the entire page). I have been for quite some time trying to figure out how to make a table of contents that leads to a image.

Anyone knows how? 

 

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Mike Witherell
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Mike WitherellCommunity Expert
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July 4, 2023

My suggestion would be to make a paragraph style applied to text that describes the image. Put this text box under the image so that the image covers it, maybe on its own layer. Use the Layout > Table of Contents generator to make the ToC, which might sit on a page or off to one side of a page on the pasteboard. Use the Articles panel to include graphics and text that you want in the epub, but leave out of the Article panel the textboxes that describe the images and which are used to make the ToC.

Mike Witherell
    James Gifford—NitroPress
    James Gifford—NitroPress
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    July 4, 2023

    I haven't tested your proposed workflow, here, Mike, but I suspect it won't work very well. EVERYTHING in an ID file goes into an EPUB. There are no "hidden beneath" or "off the page" areas as you might exploit in printing.

     

    The only variation I can think of that might work is to make the crypto-text conditional, so that the TOC can be generated and then the text hidden... and I suspect that would have glitches as well. EPUB export is a real PITA when it comes to trying to fool that dumb "one flow to rule them all" model. 🙂

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