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Old 02-21-2013, 01:34 AM   #20
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You don't need InDesign. Just unzip the ePub, extract the XML files and you can then edit them to make the changes very easily.
Exactly. Take a text editor and just replace the guts of the first chapter with paragraphs of lorem ipsum. Delete all the remaining chapters. When you're done, make sure the file actually still fails.

If it doesn't, then try doing a binary search—that is, delete half the content, see if the problem goes away, and if so, restore it and delete the other half of the content. Then take half of that and throw it away. See if the problem reproduces. If not, switch to the other half. Keep halving the content until you narrow it down to a small bit that causes the problem.
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