Exporting images to EPUB

[stanisk]

Hello,

based on a discussion in this thread​ I am creating this post.

So, I tried exporting from InD to EPUB. It went well, the export is basically the same as to HTML, with the added bonus it's already in EPUB. So that's good, but my problems remains.

The images in my documents aren't anchored. So when exported to EPUB (or HTML) they slide from their place in text to the bottom of the export.

We make a lot of epubs from indd documents (which we don't create), so we don't really have a time to anchor images, and sometimes there are a lot of images in the book.

So my questions are

1. Is there a way to automaticaly anchor image in its place?

2. Or is there a way to export to EPUB, while the image stays in its place without the need to anchor?

3. Or if the image slides down of the export, is there a way to make a kind of link from where the image originaly was, so while reading the text, I can click on the link and it'll take me to the image and then clicking on the image will take me back to the text?

Thank you.

[BobLevine]

Use the Articles Panel to create the order in which items will export and select that method in the export dialog.

[stanisk]

So I have a problem with this.

I created an Article, I'm adding Selections in it. But all of the text in the document is in one Selection. So when I add the images, they end up after the text and not throughout like they appear in layout.

Am I doing something wrong? Or is there some another way how to do this?

[BobLevine]

In that case you need to anchor them in the text.

[Derek Cross]

It's very easy to anchor the images, for reflowable ePubs they don't have to be positioned in the exact position in the text.

I just quickly knocked this up so you can see the anchored original image and how it looks when it's Exported to Reflawable ePub.

[stanisk]

Yeah, anchoring. And would it be possible to somehow anchor the images automatically? So I don't have to manually anchor every image?

[Derek Cross]

There may be but, if so, I don't know how.

[BobLevine]

Check the scripting forum.