Load of html debugging - Page 2

kovidgoyal · 03-27-2010, 12:36 AM

there are various html constructs that can cause different versions of Adobe digital editions to crash. An incomplete list is at the adequirks page in the calibre wiki (just google it) though most of those issues should be automatically handled by calibre. Nonetheless they will give you an idea of what sort of thing to look out for.

Then you can start hand editing the epub file, manually enabling/disabling sections to see what's causing the crash.

Oh and try running epubcheck, if you're lucky something it complains about may be causing the crash.

DoctorOhh · 03-27-2010, 12:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pedz

So, I finally have all my parts less than 260K but the book still will not come up in the nook. When I hit the open button, it flashes a few times and then goes back to the list of books.

Any suggestions of how to debug this at this point?

Thank you

Quote:

Originally Posted by pedz

I was able to load and convert a small html file with Calibre but I could not even load this html file: HTML 5

Now that you have your book in acceptable size chunks and I assume you have it converted to epub the problem may be the content of your book.

I took the html documentation for Beautiful Soup and converted it to an epub. When I tried to open it on my Sony PRS-505 my device promptly rebooted. I wasn't inclined to troubleshoot further, but I was able to repeat this. The ebook I created was full of code. Part of that code must have conflicted with ADE epub renderer software built into my device.

If you attach the epub others can take a closer look and see how it reacts on their Nooks.

pedz · 03-30-2010, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Oh and try running epubcheck, if you're lucky something it complains about may be causing the crash.

I'm not sure if you are interested but one error is:

ERROR: content.opf(9): date value '2010-03-30T00:00:00+00:00' is not valid, YYYY[-MM[-DD]] expected

I assume that date is coming from Calibre. I'm not sure if epubcheck is correct or not but thought you might like to know.

kovidgoyal · 03-30-2010, 09:19 PM

That's a bug in epubcheck and is most definitely not causing your crash

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03-27-2010, 12:36 AM	#16
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	there are various html constructs that can cause different versions of Adobe digital editions to crash. An incomplete list is at the adequirks page in the calibre wiki (just google it) though most of those issues should be automatically handled by calibre. Nonetheless they will give you an idea of what sort of thing to look out for. Then you can start hand editing the epub file, manually enabling/disabling sections to see what's causing the crash. Oh and try running epubcheck, if you're lucky something it complains about may be causing the crash.

03-30-2010, 09:19 PM	#19
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,843 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That's a bug in epubcheck and is most definitely not causing your crash

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