Post by marquessa on Jan 28, 2024 18:57:35 GMT
Sorry, yes, it's an ebook issue, I've just realised I'm in the wrong forum. My apologies. Anyway, I have managed to sort it by trial and error. As I said in my original post, I've had no problems with this issue in 5 previous successfully published ebooks. So I ended up copying and pasting all the text from the 'faulty' Word doc into a copy of a previous document that had managed to go through the conversion without any glitches showing up in Adobe in the file downloaded from Lulu. I effectively had two novels in the same document then. I then deleted the other novel. That seemed to make the remaining document with the issues look like the one that was okay.
That is peculiar if you have not had issues before using the same template. But it's not unusual for Lulu's Wizards to have a bit of a mental breakdown, messing up a conversion, but which is then OK when you Revise it back through the Wizard!
However, I noticed that when I checked the formatting (by clicking on that musical note symbol on the tool bar)
I never have that turned off. It's pretty much impossible to format pages with it off.
there were a few odd-looking little black squares in places.
I have no idea what they are. Formatting commands are often seen as text or a command symbol, (which are not printed of course.) But it is often possible to get those black squares in place of a font it does not have. A symbol for example.
I'd seen these in previous documents I'd uploaded to the Lulu convertor, (including one that I paid a Lulu expert to format for me some years ago) but they never caused an issue before. So I highlighted the whole document, went into paragraphs, line and page breaks and unchecked the widows & orphans,
They can cause strange formatting actions, I never use that option.
keep with next and one other box that was still ticked. That helped, but one or two of these little black squares annoyingly remained. I figured it must have been a paragraph issue, so wherever these black squares remained, I highlighted the paragraph before and after each, went back into paragraphs, line and page breaks and oddly, those boxes I'd unchecked for the whole document still remained. So I went through the whole document like this so not a single black square remained. Uploaded it to Lulu, downloaded the converted file, copied it into Adobe and job done. Issue gone and now the ebook is pending distribution
A docx file for an ePub is quite simple really. Not many of the usual formatting options as used for the printed page are used.
Unorthodox, I know, but this time I've written down (in pen in a notebook, lol) how to sort it if it occurs again.
The older one gets ...
Once again, I wish to apologise for using the wrong page and many thanks to you for your input. xx
No problem. There are a lot to pick from!
Thank you!