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Old 05-27-2014, 06:02 AM
jrasicmark jrasicmark is offline Hidden page breaks and section breaks Windows 7 64bit Hidden page breaks and section breaks Office 2007
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I formatted an epub on Amazon for my job. Since I am more familiar with InDesign, I used it along with Amazon's script to turn it into an epub.
Since then, I've noticed the cover has inexplicably rotated 90 degrees on Amazon. I asked about it in Amazon's forums, and they said InDesign isn't really reliable for epubs.
So I'm trying to recreate everything in Word. The original Word document isn't up to date with all the editing and corrections I did, so I exported each InDesign chapter document into a PDF, then used Adobe Acrobat to save each PDF as a Word document.
Some of the resulting Word documents seem to be littered with multiple page breaks and/or section breaks. I'm able to delete most of them, but some of them fall right in the middle of a sentence and won't delete. I've selected the paragraph icon in the ribbon to turn on invisible characters, and I can't see a page or section break indicated in most of these breaks.
Anyone know what might be causing these and how to delete them?
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Old 05-27-2014, 11:04 PM
eNGiNe eNGiNe is offline Hidden page breaks and section breaks Windows 7 32bit Hidden page breaks and section breaks Office 2010 64bit
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> Anyone know what might be causing these

"Trying to (re)create a formatted document by converting a .pdf" is my guess; not really the workflow .pdf was designed for, and all the more problematic when you're trying to move layout/formatting between programs that handle them very differently. I'd extract just the text from your IDD files and then redevelop the required layout in Word. The story editor is a relatively painless route to export, if some way from ideal for this particular task :-}

btw, scouting around in the IDD forum turned up the suggestion "use the script ExportAllStories.jsx that comes with your default InDesign installation" – no sign of any scripts in my CS5 IDD, unfortunately, but you may be luckier.
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Old 05-28-2014, 05:32 AM
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Thanks very much. I tend to forget about the story editor.
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Old 06-02-2014, 11:28 PM
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In case you're as baffled as I was … my query in the IDD forum returned the answer "Window > Utilities > Scripts". Every other CS5 product I use, plus FM, keeps scripts under File > Scripts :-}
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