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kiwidude · 10-01-2011, 01:05 PM

@drMerry - this plugin hasn't been forgotten - it is just that I handed it over to Idolse to add some functionality, and "real life" has gotten in the way of much happening on that front for him. In fact Idolse and I have been exchanging a few messages about it over the last few weeks because I want to officially release it, even though it doesn't have everything in there that I ultimately want it to. What is in there currently works well enough, Idolse is making a few changes to the work he did around margins, and then I will do the support for keyboard shortcuts and release it. The #1 outstanding thing I would like it to have is the ability to support replacing the cover in *all* situations just like doing a conversion does - currently the "update metadata" command will only replace the cover if the cover can be "identified". However Idolse hasn't the time and I don't have the knowledge/time to gather it, so we will leave that as a future rainy day feature to add.

In answer to your suggestions - at the outset I will say that adding functionality "just" for the purposes of trying to do winmerge duplicate comparisons is not high on my priority list. That is the smallest niche of uses in my opinion. Specially my comments:
(1) Changing file locations means having to rewrite all of the html, toc, etc to update links. And who is to say what "file structure" is correct? Calibre has one way, Sigil has another, raw book publishers have another again. Not gonna happen.
(2) & (4) There already exists the "Update metadata" function, which rewrites the top part of the opf file. This should take care of bad or out of date being present in there, which is the primary use of this plugin.
(3) I understand it causes an issue for your comparison (though surely not if you turn off whitespace checking?) but AFAIK it causes zero harm as far as ePub validity is concerned for readability. If someone states that their books are being rejected from a store because of this then I will add support, otherwise it is way down the list sorry.

10-01-2011, 01:05 PM	#192
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,733 Karma: 2197770 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	@drMerry - this plugin hasn't been forgotten - it is just that I handed it over to Idolse to add some functionality, and "real life" has gotten in the way of much happening on that front for him. In fact Idolse and I have been exchanging a few messages about it over the last few weeks because I want to officially release it, even though it doesn't have everything in there that I ultimately want it to. What is in there currently works well enough, Idolse is making a few changes to the work he did around margins, and then I will do the support for keyboard shortcuts and release it. The #1 outstanding thing I would like it to have is the ability to support replacing the cover in all situations just like doing a conversion does - currently the "update metadata" command will only replace the cover if the cover can be "identified". However Idolse hasn't the time and I don't have the knowledge/time to gather it, so we will leave that as a future rainy day feature to add. In answer to your suggestions - at the outset I will say that adding functionality "just" for the purposes of trying to do winmerge duplicate comparisons is not high on my priority list. That is the smallest niche of uses in my opinion. Specially my comments: (1) Changing file locations means having to rewrite all of the html, toc, etc to update links. And who is to say what "file structure" is correct? Calibre has one way, Sigil has another, raw book publishers have another again. Not gonna happen. (2) & (4) There already exists the "Update metadata" function, which rewrites the top part of the opf file. This should take care of bad or out of date being present in there, which is the primary use of this plugin. (3) I understand it causes an issue for your comparison (though surely not if you turn off whitespace checking?) but AFAIK it causes zero harm as far as ePub validity is concerned for readability. If someone states that their books are being rejected from a store because of this then I will add support, otherwise it is way down the list sorry.