What are the best practices for a clean conversion with Draft2Digital?

At Draft2Digital, our goal is to support your style guide. As long as you've been consistent in your formatting throughout the manuscript (especially when it comes to chapter titles), we expect our conversion software to handle it perfectly. If our conversion process doesn't work automatically and you want to get a beautifully formatted eBook right away, here are a few things you can do to get the best results:

• Don't prepare end matter like a title page, copyright page, or "other books by this author." Give Draft2Digital your file, and let us do the technical parts. After you upload your book file, Draft2Digital will allow you to generate and embed end matter pages using the information stored in our database. If you do include your own custom end matter, Draft2Digital will do our best to recognize and format it properly.
• Be consistent with your chapter headers. For best results, mark new chapters with a heading that is bold and of a larger font than the rest of the document. As long as you mark your chapter headings in the same way, Draft2Digital’s automated system will recognize your chapter titles.
• Special formatting is possible. We detect blockquotes based on the margin (the distance from the right and left side of the page). You don't need to use any particular margin, but to include a blockquote in your text, make your block narrower than the main body text. If you have a poem or song in your body text, make sure it's tabbed in further than the body text. If your entire book is poetry, try applying Poetry Template Styles on the Preview step after you’ve uploaded your file.
• Images are fiddly.  When inserting images into your manuscript don’t use copy/paste to put the images into your document. Images must be embedded so that the information is actually stored in the file and not just a link to an external file. To do this in Word, select Insert > Picture and choose the image you want. All images must have unique names, even if you are re-using the same picture (like a flourish or reoccurring decorative element, we suggest ch1_flourish.png, ch2_flourish.png, etc.). For best results, always be sure that your images are aligned “In Line with Text” and centered.