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Tiiba · 03-01-2012, 08:28 PM

I have a bit of a tricky situation. You see, I didn't write the book. That was my boss. And I didn't make the epub. It was made by a guy who works somewhere else (I know him by voice alone). But I got the job of submitting, because that's always my job. And when I told him that there were errors, he told me, "I'm a mortal graphic designer, I don't know what this gibberish means!". So I tried to figure it out myself, and discovered that I have no means of even trying. I thought I could open the file as XML and edit it... Guess what, it's not XML.

Anyway, I called him and asked what he used to do it. Turned out he used Calibre to convert a PDF to an ePub. Apple mentions Calibre by name as a Bad Idea.

So what is a Good Idea? What is the fastest, cheapest and easiest (choose any two, I know) to get past this nonsense?

The errors themselves (one for one book, the other for another):

"index_split_000.html(13): element "img" missing required attribute "alt". This error occurs 9017 times." at Book (MZItmspBookPackage)

ERROR: ERROR ITMS-9000: "content.opf(10): attribute "opf:file-as" not allowed here; expected attribute "id" or "xml:lang"" at Book (MZItmspBookPackage)

03-01-2012, 08:28 PM	#1
Tiiba Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2012 Device: none	Errors when submitting epubs to iBookstore I have a bit of a tricky situation. You see, I didn't write the book. That was my boss. And I didn't make the epub. It was made by a guy who works somewhere else (I know him by voice alone). But I got the job of submitting, because that's always my job. And when I told him that there were errors, he told me, "I'm a mortal graphic designer, I don't know what this gibberish means!". So I tried to figure it out myself, and discovered that I have no means of even trying. I thought I could open the file as XML and edit it... Guess what, it's not XML. Anyway, I called him and asked what he used to do it. Turned out he used Calibre to convert a PDF to an ePub. Apple mentions Calibre by name as a Bad Idea. So what is a Good Idea? What is the fastest, cheapest and easiest (choose any two, I know) to get past this nonsense? The errors themselves (one for one book, the other for another): "index_split_000.html(13): element "img" missing required attribute "alt". This error occurs 9017 times." at Book (MZItmspBookPackage) ERROR: ERROR ITMS-9000: "content.opf(10): attribute "opf:file-as" not allowed here; expected attribute "id" or "xml:lang"" at Book (MZItmspBookPackage)