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052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects

052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects - InDesign Tutorial

From the course: InDesign Secrets

052 Forcing EPUB page breaks with invisible objects

One of the most vexing problems in creating EPUBs is forcing a page break from InDesign. Well, it's not vexing to force a page break. It's just, how do you get that page break to be honored in the EPUB? Here is a very simple test file that has one long story full of gibberish and you can tell what's going to happen when somebody added all these empty carriage returns to force section two to start at the next page. And if I export this to EPUB, File > Export, we'll just put on the Desktop, format EPUB, replacing the one that I have there now, we're just going to go ahead and accept the default settings for everything. Here's what happens. Nothing. Carriage runs are ignored, so are space runs. If we put it to small so we can see it side by side, what I want to see is the text starts here and then SECTION TWO in all caps starts at the top. You might be saying, okay, let's just use an actual page break character. But no, see, that would make sense. If I click right in front of SECTION…

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