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Originally Posted by DaleDe
I just tried The Gambler (I don't know where OpenBerg is). I looked at it in digital editions and I converted it to my eb1150 as a test. Do you mind if I finish the conversion to eb1150 and then post it at mobileread? Here are some comments.
1. The digital editions is really slow to bring up the document.
2. I was surprise the zip container had no compression. Was this done to try and increase speed? Normally you should be able to publish with the .epub extension with full zip compression.
3. The file extensions were xml instead of xhtml. Is there a reason for this? It might slow down the processing but I am not sure.
4. The note.xml file was included but I do not think it was referenced anywhere.
5. The final feedbooks page has a very light graphic. Did this come across ok in the readers you are targeting? It looked too light when converted to 16 level gray scale on my device. I had to darken it a bit.
6. The TOC did not come across to my eb1150 version but I can regenerate it manually. It is probably a limit in my system. It worked ok in digital editions.
7. There are a lot of " marks with space on both sides in the document. This is one of the nits that I hate. I corrected it in my copy of the xml file and can send it to you if you wish.
8. Are you planning to fix the quotes to curly quotes?
9. There are some characters in the file that my reader did not recognize but that may just be my reader.
I hope this helps.
Dale
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Hello Dale,
1) I noticed that we had a few tags that were not correctly closed, that's why it wasn't working on OpenBerg but only 1-2 were concerned and not in the main text. DE parser seems to be really bad, no speed on both OpenBerg and FBReader.
2) You're not supposed to compress the files, zip is just a container here. Some software might support compression, but it might slow down the whole thing and we have to make those files fully compliant (that's what a beta test is for...).
3) I don't think that .xml or .xhtml changes anything.
4) We left a few files from the example we used to create our files (myantonia), that's why there's a few metadata and files left. We're removing all references now and cleaning the whole thing (I took this file while developing the output).
5) The graphic looked ok on my Sony Reader. Might darken it a bit though...
6) TOC worked perfectly with all the files I've tested but only DE seems to support TOC.
7) This is how the text itself was uploaded, I guess we could add another layer of formatting though, and this is a constant work in progress.
8) Same here, if we could easily identify the curly quotes we could add this. In some situation, it's hard to automatically fix this.
9) Haven't seen any unusual characters using DE or OpenBerg. Might be linked to the fact that ePub is fully UTF-8 ?
Post any conversion that you want to. Did you manually converted the file ? Automatically ? Which output are you using ?
Thanks for the feedback,
I'll post an updated file soon.