10-22-2012, 06:54 PM | #1 |
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Error: Large File or Table?
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I have a regimen which pushes out multiple technical publications on a periodic basis. I do the XML myself (generated by a program) and emerge with no problems.. until now. My program generates EPUBS that Kindlegen has no problems with. Kindlegen forces closed a missing tag here or there, but otherwise has zero issues with my submissions. Now size may be irrelevant here (that is what he/she said , I just pass that as maybe helpful information -- Here, I have a very large EPUB. It is 50 MB uncompressed. 10 MB or so compressed. Kindlegen hangs on it (so does SIGIL, so does Calibre.. I don't usually use them, but did so to try and troubleshoot this). When Kindlegen hangs, I go to the linenumber in the source XML file.. and nothing jumps out at me as the cause of error. I have even tried HTML-Tidying the file. HTML Tidy finds FIVE issues in a 50 MB file. Not bad. But the HTML Tidy issues are not even broached by Kindlegen. I am at a loss for where to look next. Looking at the Kindlegen linenumbers (where it hangs) has not helped. HTML Tidy errors are prolly easily dispatched by Kindlegen anyway.. and are a far distance from the the line numbers that Kindlegen gags on. I'm stumped. I don't want a specific answer here with this info I provide.. just a hint of where to look. At the moment.. all I can think of is size issues (he/she) said. But, that does not seem right. Aside from mega-file size.. the only other issue I can think of is tables. Kindlegen is gagging in vicinity of tables. Though.. HTML Tidy has had minor issues with those tables (5 errors about extraneous crap within the <th> and so on). Ideas???? |
10-22-2012, 10:54 PM | #2 |
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Sigil or Calibre usually hangs on an epub if the HTML is very large. Is it just one HTML file inside the epub?
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10-23-2012, 05:05 AM | #3 |
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Yes, the error is in one file. The one which happens to be the biggest.
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10-24-2012, 02:19 AM | #4 |
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You might want to split that HTML into a smaller size. The recommended size for a single HTML file inside the epub is around 280Kb. But then HTML filesize should not be an issue with Kindlegen processing it. Did your epub pass the epubcheck and/or preflight validation?
BTW, you might want to provide a screenshot of the error and lines of the HTML where the error is happening so others might be able to decipher the problem. |
10-31-2012, 06:56 AM | #5 |
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Yep. It was file size. As an EPUB it was around 11 MB.. but when uncompressed it was in excess of 50 MB. I split it into two Volumes.. and it works perfectly now.
A bit disappointing though. I really want to publish it in one EPUB, like the paper version of the same product. (it's a really big technical reference) |
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