EPUB export issue: text gradient dropped

[alj78491589]

In the children's book I'm putting together, all of the story titles are text with a 3-color gradient. As I work to get this ready as an eBook, I'm running into an issue. When I export as EPUB (fixed layout), format Automatic (I've also tried GIF, JPG and PNG) at 300 ppi, I get the following error message:

"The gradient applied to the text has been dropped."

How can I solve this?

[BobLevine]

Gradients on text are not supported. You can work around it by converting it to a PNG on export.

[alj78491589]

Converting it to a PNG through the EPUB export function? I got the same result.

[BobLevine · Accepted solution]

How are you converting it? Choose Rasterize Container if you weren’t doing so already.

[alj78491589]

I see! Rasterize Container for each text option. Perfect - thank you!

[Juan5EFD]

Hello,

I have to export an ePub with gradient in text,

Choose Rasterize Container ???

Please could you explain me how to do it ???

Thank you 

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[mostlycloudy]

Bob:

I'm facing the same issue.  I have an EPUB that was created by another InDesign artist whereevery piece of text that has gradients applied has been converted to PNG in a fixed format EPUB.  Using the same source files, I am unable to get the Fixed Format EPUB to rasterize the graident text.  I've selected the entire document and chosen Object> Export Options . . .  and set it to Ratserize Container, which as far as I can tell changed the setting for every object.  But I continue to get the error, "The gradient applied to the text has been dropped."  Can you give a little more detail in how you are able to export gradient text as rasterized in a Fixed Format EPUB?

Thank you!

[BobLevine]

Nothing's changed as far as how to do it. This thread is pretty old and I haven't needed to do this almost five years.

But from what I remember, I had to move that text to its own frame and set that frame to rasterize into a PNG on export.

[mostlycloudy]

Thank you.  I'll try moving the text to a frame and see if that will work.