I have comped a large book using InDesign was converting the book file to an epub with no problems until I used the TOC feature to generate a TOC. Then, when I saved the book to an epub, I started to get the error message: Found TOC hyperlinks which don't have target text anchor information. Please update TOC with "Make text anchor in source paragraph" option turned on.
Needless to say, I tried the suggestion. Several times. When that didn't do any good, I went through the manuscript, found all the double blue dots (which only appeared next to the chapter title because that is what I used to generate a TOC), and deleted them. Then I removed the generated TOC and built one by hand. That did not work. I continue to receive this message.Fine.
So I saved each chapter to epub individually to see if I could find the culprit. Guess what? Not a single chapter nor the TOC had any problems converting to epub. It is only when I use the book panel to export the book as an epub that the problem occurs. Well that's just grand. To go through all that work and it will probably be rejected by Nook and Kindle because of this error message which I can't eradicate no matter what I do.
Do I want to recomp the entire book from scratch? No. Will I do it if I have to? Yes. One thing is certain. I will never again use the TOC feature when I am preparing a book for epub publication.
So, is there any way to find which hyperlink is causing the problem? Is there any way to find the hyperlinks at all short of searching every line of every single chapter (which, come to think of it, is what I've already done to no avail)? Yes I tried the search function and looked for the character style Hyperlinks, but there was no option for searching for generated hyperlinks or TOC hyperlinks, and they don't show up in the Hyperlinks panel.
It would really be nice if instead of an error message that says, "Oh guess what, you've got a problem but we're not going to tell you where it is occurring or give you any way to find it," the error message said, "Go to page 539 and delete the hyperlink you didn't realize you added when you were dinking around." Now that would be helpful.
Any help on this issue before it causes permanent mental damage would be very much appreciated.
Thank you.