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Forum: ePub 05-04-2018, 04:02 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 894
Posted By jgawne
Smashwords "id" issue

A recent ebook will not pass Smashwords flight check due to an id issue, and now older books that USED to be fine, are no longer passing (when a typo is fixed) due to the same issue.

Any ideas...
Forum: Calibre 07-05-2017, 05:58 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,529
Posted By jgawne
by viewer so you mean the file preview? ...

by viewer so you mean the file preview?

right now I am saving a new file copy pretty often, and checking the size, as it seems when I get a bad file it shrinks to 1K.

So far today I have...
Forum: Calibre 07-05-2017, 12:55 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,529
Posted By jgawne
Thanks, but I am confused as to how I could have...

Thanks, but I am confused as to how I could have done that. I had done some find and replace (in text files) changing some css blocks into another. And some of the times I saved it as a copy to...
Forum: Calibre 07-05-2017, 10:56 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 2,529
Posted By jgawne
"Failed to read book"

What am I doing wrong?

Three times I have almost finished polishing off an ebook (first time doing all of it in calibre instead of sigil and calibre). I save copies every so often, but at some...
Forum: Sigil 08-08-2014, 11:10 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,757
Posted By jgawne
Nope nothing non-standard and I have done a...

Nope nothing non-standard and I have done a number of books with lots of images with no problems. I can't replicate this issue so - that's that. Just a weird occurrence because I am SO VERY LUCKY. ...
Forum: Sigil 08-01-2014, 11:49 AM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,757
Posted By jgawne
No, I am doing it properly. I have not had this...

No, I am doing it properly. I have not had this issue before on a number of projects that went fine. I have just forced myself to get into the habit of saving more versions. I do note that in the...
Forum: Sigil 07-31-2014, 02:12 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,757
Posted By jgawne
nope, I am careful about that. And I know that a...

nope, I am careful about that. And I know that a double space in the file name will mess it up.

This is just I save the file, shut down the machine, come back the next day, open it up and 'poof!'...
Forum: Sigil 07-30-2014, 03:36 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 2,757
Posted By jgawne
Question Vanishing images

I am really sorry to see Sigil no longer being supported. Sigh.

However, I have had a weird issue that has reoccurred three times in the recent past and I wonder if anyone knows what might be...
Forum: Sigil 01-18-2013, 12:11 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 3,226
Posted By jgawne
Ah, I seem to have doctohtml installed instead...

Ah, I seem to have doctohtml installed instead for some reason. I guess this is an older attempt to get clean html. I will try angain.
Forum: Sigil 01-11-2013, 11:53 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 3,226
Posted By jgawne
I had installed that macro, but life came up and...

I had installed that macro, but life came up and didn't get to use it until the trial expired. Not sure I really use it enough to make it worth while, however I am still pretty nervous that if I...
Forum: Sigil 01-04-2013, 03:11 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 3,226
Posted By jgawne
Ok, I went and found a 6.1 version of Sigil,...

Ok, I went and found a 6.1 version of Sigil, installed that, and the files that did give me the above issues, now seem to open fine.

I'd like to see if I could help the kindly coders figure this...
Forum: Sigil 01-04-2013, 02:56 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 3,226
Posted By jgawne
error- line 4: attribute value expected ????

I just updated to the latest verson of Sigil, and suddenly when I save my WORD files as filtered web page, and try to open in Sigil I get an error message:

Not loaded due to invalid content or not...
Forum: Sigil 12-07-2012, 10:30 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,649
Posted By jgawne
Thanks for the help. I 'think' I somehow figure...

Thanks for the help. I 'think' I somehow figure a way around this. I had put it into a (print) indesign book, and tried the new 'export to epub." Worked like a charm. I bet there are a lot of...
Forum: Sigil 12-05-2012, 11:07 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,649
Posted By jgawne
Oh, I've stared at the CSS trying to figure out...

Oh, I've stared at the CSS trying to figure out where this lurks, and spent hours removing spans and tweeking the codes. I am almost ready to give up, but I was trying some supposed style cleaners....
Forum: Sigil 12-04-2012, 02:44 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,649
Posted By jgawne
Weird formatting residue from WORD

I am nearly insane from days of bashing at an issue of formatting. Seems the author somehow changed something in his WORD formatting midway through his manuscript, then changed it again a second time...
Forum: Conversion 03-07-2012, 02:48 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,868
Posted By jgawne
black (or missing ) covers on epub-mobi conversion

My cover works just fine for epub on thgins, but when I run it through calibre to covert to a mobi file, then email it to my kindle, the thumbnail is just a black box- although the cover art is shown...
Forum: Sigil 03-02-2012, 08:24 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 5,226
Posted By jgawne
&Omega seems to work! all hail the ducks ...

&Omega seems to work!

all hail the ducks

Now if someone could point me to an explation of what this coding actually is (so I can understand it) and possible a table of other symbols that might...
Forum: Sigil 03-02-2012, 07:56 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 5,226
Posted By jgawne
no dice on that path. What happens is I get the...

no dice on that path. What happens is I get the Omega (needed for Ohms) in Indesign, it also works in sigil. open it in adobe digital editions or calibre and it just shows up as a "W" for kicks...
Forum: Sigil 03-02-2012, 12:41 PM
Replies: 33
Views: 5,226
Posted By jgawne
Question Damnable Symbols

I've been trying to create an Epub for a science class that (sadly) has to use a handful of mathematical type symbols. Just another font you say.

I did up the main file in InDesign, embedded the...
Forum: Conversion 01-31-2012, 02:13 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 1,173
Posted By jgawne
old mobi's wont go away

I've been searching on this and can't find anything, so maybe I just don't know others call it.

But I take an epub say V.2, convert to mobi, save it to a specific file, and the epub version there...
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