Feedbooks to support ePub format - Page 2

DaleDe · 09-27-2007, 06:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Does the .epub books need those line spaces between paragraphs? If so, I really won't be reading them as I find them rather annoying on a large enough screen. Can the quotes and apostrophes be converted to the curly kind?

The blank lines are put in by css processing and under control of the author (publisher). I just posted The Gambler in eb1150 format for anyone that is interested. I add the curly quotes and apostrophes and cleaned up some other nits. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14235

Hadrien · 09-27-2007, 07:29 PM

I've updated the file once again and I think I'll put the ePub output on the website now. With a larger number of books, additional bugs could pop-up and we're hunting them right now ^^

Edit: It's online: http://www.feedbooks.com/discover
No cache for the epub files for the moment, it might take a few seconds the first time that you generate a file.

DaleDe · 09-27-2007, 10:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hadrien

I've updated the file once again and I think I'll put the ePub output on the website now. With a larger number of books, additional bugs could pop-up and we're hunting them right now ^^

Edit: It's online: http://www.feedbooks.com/discover
No cache for the epub files for the moment, it might take a few seconds the first time that you generate a file.

Great idea. It looks like anyone can now retrieve all of the books at the site in this format. Wonderful news.

Dale

Hadrien · 09-28-2007, 09:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DaleDe

Great idea. It looks like anyone can now retrieve all of the books at the site in this format. Wonderful news.

Dale

All of the public domain books indeed. We'll add it for user generated content and RSS feeds once we're over with this first beta for ePub.

LOL2005 · 09-29-2007, 05:31 AM

I have tried to make several custom pdf and always got the following error message:

File does not begin with '%PDF-'

I like the the project

Hadrien · 09-29-2007, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LOL2005

I have tried to make several custom pdf and always got the following error message:

File does not begin with '%PDF-'

I like the the project

OK. I'll fix this problem, we certainly removed or replaced something while updating the website to support ePub...

Edit: It should be working now.

LOL2005 · 09-29-2007, 11:12 AM

Works fine now, thanks for the very quick fix
Cheers

Dan23 · 09-29-2007, 07:24 PM

I posted this as a comment under the Great Gatsby on feedbooks, but a number of .epub hare being generated incorrectly. Great Gatsby and Art of War are two. The link to certain chapters after a certain chapter all point towards the same incorrect point when I open those two books in Digital editions. In Great Gatsby chapter 5 and up link to the same page as page 2 in about. I was not able to find the rest of the book within digital editions. The problem is not present in the pdfs

Dan23 · 09-29-2007, 08:36 PM

Other books with this problem (not a comprehensive list) are:
Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway.epub
Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobediance.epub
Plato - Gorgias.epub
Orwell - Animal Farm.epub
Joyce - Ulysses.epub
When I open fb.xml in opera after unzipping it gives errors of the following nature "XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 1369, Character: 29)" (This is for Great Gatsby)

Hadrien · 09-29-2007, 11:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan23

Other books with this problem (not a comprehensive list) are:
Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway.epub
Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobediance.epub
Plato - Gorgias.epub
Orwell - Animal Farm.epub
Joyce - Ulysses.epub
When I open fb.xml in opera after unzipping it gives errors of the following nature "XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 1369, Character: 29)" (This is for Great Gatsby)

Tried some of these: the whole text is present in the fb.xml but there's xhtml errors at some point (usually a problem with a <p> and <b> tag or a <p> and <i> tag) that explain the errors while clicking on a chapter. I'll update the flex or run the fb.xml through tidy to get rid of these problems...

Hadrien · 09-30-2007, 01:53 PM

Fixed. All the books that you listed are now correctly working in OpenBerg.

Dan23 · 09-30-2007, 04:37 PM

This is a totally separate issue that I just stumbled upon by accident but when I try opening any fb.xml file for any epub in IE or Maxthon (ie based) I get a message of the following nature. It does not affect Digital Editions in any way and no such errors appear in Opera:

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Parameter entity must be defined before it is used. Error processing resource 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd...

%xhtml-prefw-redecl.mod;
-^

Hadrien · 09-30-2007, 04:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan23

This is a totally separate issue that I just stumbled upon by accident but when I try opening any fb.xml file for any epub in IE or Maxthon (ie based) I get a message of the following nature. It does not affect Digital Editions in any way and no such errors appear in Opera:

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Parameter entity must be defined before it is used. Error processing resource 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd...

%xhtml-prefw-redecl.mod;
-^

Well first of all these are not supposed to be opened in IE, but in DE/OpenBerg/FBReader instead ^_^

Style sheet problem ? Maybe you just unzipped fb.xml without the stylesheet directory ?

Dan23 · 09-30-2007, 05:23 PM

Nope, I extracted the whole epub first and then tried opening fb.xml. I don't plan on opening it with IE in the future, but in case it was a problem I thought you should know. It is present in every ePub I tried. For all of them fb.xml opens fine in Opera and Firefox - so there may be some sort of error in the xml that Opera and Firefox overlooks but IE doesn't.

Hadrien · 09-30-2007, 05:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dan23

Nope, I extracted the whole epub first and then tried opening fb.xml. I don't plan on opening it with IE in the future, but in case it was a problem I thought you should know. It is present in every ePub I tried. For all of them fb.xml opens fine in Opera and Firefox - so there may be some sort of error in the xml that Opera and Firefox overlooks but IE doesn't.

OK, I'll try it with IE too, see if there's any error in the xml file, but it should be 100% valid xhtml now that I've fixed everything and run it through tidy.

09-27-2007, 07:29 PM	#17
Hadrien Feedbooks.com Co-Founder Posts: 2,263 Karma: 145123 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Paris, France Device: Sony PRS-t-1/350/300/500/505/600/700, Nexus S, iPad	I've updated the file once again and I think I'll put the ePub output on the website now. With a larger number of books, additional bugs could pop-up and we're hunting them right now ^^ Edit: It's online: http://www.feedbooks.com/discover No cache for the epub files for the moment, it might take a few seconds the first time that you generate a file. Last edited by Hadrien; 09-27-2007 at 07:41 PM.

09-29-2007, 05:31 AM	#20
LOL2005 Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2007 Device: Sony Reader PRS-505	Custome PDF doesn't work I have tried to make several custom pdf and always got the following error message: File does not begin with '%PDF-' I like the the project

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LOL2005 Member Posts: 20 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2007 Device: Sony Reader PRS-505	Works fine now, thanks for the very quick fix Cheers

09-29-2007, 07:24 PM	#23
Dan23 Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 600000 Join Date: Sep 2007 Device: Scribe, Paperwhite 6.8"	I posted this as a comment under the Great Gatsby on feedbooks, but a number of .epub hare being generated incorrectly. Great Gatsby and Art of War are two. The link to certain chapters after a certain chapter all point towards the same incorrect point when I open those two books in Digital editions. In Great Gatsby chapter 5 and up link to the same page as page 2 in about. I was not able to find the rest of the book within digital editions. The problem is not present in the pdfs

09-29-2007, 08:36 PM	#24
Dan23 Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 600000 Join Date: Sep 2007 Device: Scribe, Paperwhite 6.8"	Other books with this problem (not a comprehensive list) are: Woolf - Mrs. Dalloway.epub Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobediance.epub Plato - Gorgias.epub Orwell - Animal Farm.epub Joyce - Ulysses.epub When I open fb.xml in opera after unzipping it gives errors of the following nature "XML parsing failed: syntax error (Line: 1369, Character: 29)" (This is for Great Gatsby)

09-30-2007, 01:53 PM	#26
Hadrien Feedbooks.com Co-Founder Posts: 2,263 Karma: 145123 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Paris, France Device: Sony PRS-t-1/350/300/500/505/600/700, Nexus S, iPad	Fixed. All the books that you listed are now correctly working in OpenBerg.

09-30-2007, 04:37 PM	#27
Dan23 Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 600000 Join Date: Sep 2007 Device: Scribe, Paperwhite 6.8"	This is a totally separate issue that I just stumbled upon by accident but when I try opening any fb.xml file for any epub in IE or Maxthon (ie based) I get a message of the following nature. It does not affect Digital Editions in any way and no such errors appear in Opera: The XML page cannot be displayed Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Parameter entity must be defined before it is used. Error processing resource 'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd... %xhtml-prefw-redecl.mod; -^

09-30-2007, 05:23 PM	#29
Dan23 Connoisseur Posts: 73 Karma: 600000 Join Date: Sep 2007 Device: Scribe, Paperwhite 6.8"	Nope, I extracted the whole epub first and then tried opening fb.xml. I don't plan on opening it with IE in the future, but in case it was a problem I thought you should know. It is present in every ePub I tried. For all of them fb.xml opens fine in Opera and Firefox - so there may be some sort of error in the xml that Opera and Firefox overlooks but IE doesn't.

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