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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'm going to use this for my new sig quote.
Help! It won't work.
Does it validate?
Of course not, why would that matter?
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You are my hero.
But seriously: A 150 chapter epub that
does validate: do you have one that the toc opens within our lifetime on mobile ADE? Because if that's the problem, I can fix that; I don't think that's the problem. Because it opens just fine in iBooks and Desktop ADE on multiple operating systems, not to mention calibre. If it were simply a lowest common denominator problem (which I have succeeded in violating on other projects in spectacular ways with better results) then shouldn't something else hint at it? It almost feels like there's a resource stack limitation I'm hitting up against on a memory-restrictive device. Yes, there's a limitation of around 30-megs for an epub according to spec; I've built books that come in at about 1/2 that with no images and maybe that's part of the problem here: I haven't run any kind of image cleaners beyond what word/dreamweaver do (which showed them just fine, as well as desktop epub readers). Surely, I'm not the only person out here who is trying to assemble such big-ass things. I've gotten 10,000 page files to open in Mobile-ADE; this one feels different, and the difference I can point to is the number of TOC entries.
Nothing besides "We don't know we've never tried anything like that but it doesn't validate that must be it therefore we can't help you?" I'm totally willing to admit I am pur-a-dee wrong (gosh, have I been that before? Let me think...) but given the number of times I have totally botched things before, this one seems to be different. Fixing validation hasn't made that many of my problems go away in the past, which is, I'm sure, why I'm not so quick to bow down to it.
-b