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Originally Posted by geormes
My working machine is Linux. When Sigil dropped the official upgrades for Linux I gradually lost interest and found myself reaching for Sigil less and less. That says more about me than Sigil.
What is the order you run the epubs through your list of tools?
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I generally open the book in ADE just to see what it looks like (layout, table of contents, fonts, etc.). I then open it in Sigil, do a first pass at cleanup (getting rid of embedded fonts, cleaning up the TOC, add my stylesheet entries, etc.) and then check it before exiting. If FlightCrew comes up with any errors, I clean them up. After this which takes an average of 10-15 minutes, I save the book and then run epubcheck on it locally. There are a several errors from epubcheck that I disregard especially since I am now using epubcheck 3 which is positively anal about what it considers an error. After all this, I re-open the book in ADE and if it looks passable, I copy it to the Kobo and read it on there.
I used Sigil with Linux but stopped when Linux support was dropped after 5.3 -- I did use the source code to compile 6.2 for Linux which finally worked after several attempts since, at that time, none of the repositories had a version that worked with my Fedora Linux in a VM. Took me back too many years to when I booted Linux off a floppy disk and memories of why I stopped using Linux for several years.
Regards,
David