Hi, all.
I've published my eBooks through Smashwords.com and their "meatgrinder" program converted them to epub format for me. I have no idea what epub means, but it's important for ereaders.
Now they're telling me there's an error so it can't be sent to Apple.
So, I downloaded the epub file and ran it through
http://threepress.org/document/epub-validate/
And it tells me: 5-the-wrong-crowd.epub is not valid or contains warnings!
ERROR: 5-the-wrong-crowd.epub/tmp_ed699923f69d4422a3343109d29b67dc_gqAjuG.ch.fix ed.fc.tidied.stylehacked.xfixed.html(3707): attribute "width" not allowed here; expected attribute "abbr", "align", "axis", "char", "charoff", "class", "colspan", "dir", "headers", "id", "rowspan", "scope", "style", "title", "valign" or "xml:lang"
ERROR: 5-the-wrong-crowd.epub/tmp_ed699923f69d4422a3343109d29b67dc_gqAjuG.ch.fix ed.fc.tidied.stylehacked.xfixed.html(3711): attribute "width" not allowed here; expected attribute "abbr", "align", "axis", "char", "charoff", "class", "colspan", "dir", "headers", "id", "rowspan", "scope", "style", "title", "valign" or "xml:lang"
Check finished with warnings or errors!
I used Word 2007 to create the file and saved it in DOC format 1998-2003 compatible. There are no images in the file and nothing that has to do with "width" at all. So how do I get rid of these "width" errors?
I followed their instructions on this one, even doing the "Nuclear Method" (
http://www.smashwords.com/epubcheck) and uploaded again, then downloaded what it created and ran it through the Epub Validate thing again and it gave me the same errors. The "Width" error isn't listed in anything they mention on their site.
I published 17 eBooks, so the others will probably be needing the same thing in the not-to-distant future. This is just the first one they've tried to send, I guess, because I used the same Style for all of them.
Thanks for any help anyone might be able to supply. Oh, and the only document that I have access to is the .doc file in Word 2007.
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