I'm using the latest epub tools in ID5.5 to create a Kindle edition of a fairly simple textbook.
The exported MOBI file works fine in Kindle Viewer, Reader, and actual Kindle 3G. But unfortunately, I can't get a proper TOC -- all 3 readers report "no TOC."
The TOC is generated inside InDesign as expected, and after export to EPUB it's the first page when you open the book, and the links all work. You can jump to the cover picture, and to the "beginning" (which is the TOC, since it's the first page after the cover), but the TOC button is greyed out. In Viewer, the NCX view works as well.
Inside InDesign, the TOC is listed in the Articles panel, in a separate story that contains nothing else. The TOC story is not linked to any other stories.
Shouldn't InDesign export both an NCX TOC and an HTML TOC from the TOC in the document?
After a lot of reading the Kindle Pub Guidelines, and the slim docs on ID5.5 epub, and a whole lot of experimentation with para styles, doc structure, and export options, I've been unable to get the dual TOC required by Kindle (NCX and HTML).
Any info on what I'm missing or doing wrong would be most welcome. I posted this on InDesign Secrets several days ago, but nobody had any ideas.
I can start manually editing the HTML for the EPUB file, but I thought ID was supposed to have this working in 5.5. Is this not the case? If not, is there any documentation on the hand-work one must do to fix ID's EPUB output for Kindle?
Thanks,
Allen