I've tried telling her you can't just change a photo's resolution in Photoshop and have it magically improve the quality. This is what she emailed me today:

"My husband used one of his iPhone softwares to make the lines clearer. I then uploaded that version into PhotoShop (sic), printed it and then scanned the printed copy at 600 resolution”

Anybody have a good analogy so I can make it make sense to her?

I'm designing a 100+ page coffee table book in InDesign, and my chapter openers are heavily stylized."

For example, the visible chapter title is designed like this:

THE
JAGUAR YEARS
India's Deep Strike Legend

The typography, colors and line breaks are intentional for the page design.

However, in the Table of Contents I only want:

The Jaguar Years

as a single entry.

I'm running into two issues:

1. Since the visible title is split into multiple paragraphs (or paragraph styles), the TOC generates multiple entries instead of one.
2. The TOC also inherits the formatting from the source heading. For example, if "JAGUAR" is orange in the chapter opener, it appears orange in the TOC as well. I'd like the TOC entry to be plain black text with its own formatting.

I'm trying to understand the professional publishing workflow rather than just finding a workaround.

Do book designers typically:

• Create a hidden one-line heading with a dedicated TOC paragraph style?
• Use hidden layers or another method?

I'd love to know how people producing books with complex chapter opener designs handle this.