Thread: Epub issues with Epubcheck
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Old 10-20-2010, 03:02 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by ematte View Post
I've been using a combination of InDesign and Dreamweaver to output Epubs and get the following error from Epubcheck.

ERROR: test book: length of first filename in archive must be 8, but was 22

Thanks
The first file in the epub zipfile must be called "mimetype", with no file type (txt, doc etc) which is 8 characters. This file must also be uncompressed. It informs the system that the rest of the file is an epub.

The content of this file is one line:

application/epub+zip

Absolutely nothing else.
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