This may be a bit of a Trial-and-Terror chore as you may need to experiment with more than one option.

edit the InDesign document to change the way the space was inserted and reexport.

This would leave you with two functional fixes:

you then opened the ePub in an ePub viewer, perhaps the ebook-viewer app that is bundled with calibre.īased on those assumptions, the space omission occurred in InDesign, likely a formatting type that its ePub export doesn't handle.

you then imported the ePub into calibre.

In InDesign, you exported the document as an ePub, given that this is the ePub sub-forum.

'Calibre' isn't a format and the core Calibre app doesn't display ebooks so I'm assuming that: In my ebook, I have a line of text that includes empty spaces, like:īut the spaces disappeared in the conversion from InDesign to Calibre.

Your example text does not show clearly what you are trying to do.

Did you mean MULTIPLE spaces? If so, you will indeed have to use multiple nbsp, or wrap text with a tag defining whitespace. You should avoid setting any colors for text - end-users get upset if your *black* text suddenly disappears when they want to use night-mode.ĮDIT TO ADD: While I am thinking of it, if you simply have single spaces between characters, Calibre would not have deleted those. If the user decides to change the background color, your white text would suddenly become visible. If you are producing this book for distribution, it's very good that you decided against the 'color' solution. Īlso be aware that rendering will collapse multiple regular spaces into a single space, and you have to fool the engine by using a combination of nbsp and regular space, OR wrap in a tag that defines how you want the whitespace handled. Code: H A P P Y H & #160 A & #160 P & #160 P & #160 YThe nbsp *should* keep your word all together without breaking.

Calibre font spacing