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Originally Posted by JSWolf
There are a lot of ePub being made by publishers that would work as ePub 2 no problem. These are the ones I want to convert. You dump the NAV, edit the metadata so it's compliant, edit the OPF, remove <section> tags and basically, that's most of the work done. If it is a true ePub 3, then the plugin can say so.
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It's a mistake to differentiate between "true" EPUB3s and EPUB3s being sold by publishers today. EPUB3 is EPUB3. A book doesn't HAVE to take advantage of javascript and audio/video/media overlays/etc to be a "true" EPUB3. It just needs to be a valid EPUB3 package. The fact that many of these EPUB3s being sold today could just as easily have been created as EPUB2s is irrelevant.
Writing a plugin that could just "say so" (when encountering something other than one of your "untrue" EPUB3s) would be a feat in and of itself.
Having said that, I'm sure a plugin could be written that could
assist with such a conversion, but a one-click output plugin that could handle ALL situations (or gracefully fail in situations when it couldn't) without breaking anything probably isn't in the cards.
In the amount of time it would take someone to supply such a plugin with all the necessary parameters to successfully convert
each unique EPUB3 it encountered, the manual changes to the code probably could have been made already.