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Originally Posted by Hitch
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As mentioned earlier, we offer limited support for EPUB FXL file. However, I would encourage you to visit MobileRead's forum (https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=179). Many designers and formatters congregate there to help one another with these kinds of technical problems.
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Classic.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
When SW was using "the grinder," sure--that makes sense. But as near as I can tell (because I looked for that, too), they didn't. Dammit. And I have NO way to get to iBooks. The testing I can do would not include any post-publishing stuff.
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Does Smashwords not use "the grinder" any more? Or they only use it on the submitted Word documents and not EPUBs?
I must admit, I haven't paid much attention to Smashwords in years.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
I ended up with BC due to someone here. I don't remember whom--but it was someone here that turned me on to it. It's been a great tool.
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Probably me. I mentioned it quite a few times on the forums + emails.
I settled onto Beyond Compare after testing all the other code comparison tools... most of the other tools didn't do the greatest when larger changes occurred. At a certain point, whoops, everything beyond this point "doesn't match", and the algorithm would have a hard/impossible time realigning itself later in the document. This was especially true if you did large changes like getting rid of a ton of InDesign/Word cruft, doing mass useless span removal, and adding/removing paragraphs (moving footnotes to the end of a chapter, [...]).
Also, speaking of hashing... does anyone else use checksum by corz?
http://corz.org/windows/software/checksum/
I also settled on that program after quite a few tests (around the same time I settled on Beyond Compare). It is just the best damn thing since sliced bread when I used to hash a massive (or not so massive) amount of files.
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Perhaps a strange suggestion, but could it be that the one reporting the problem actually used another program than iBooks and encountered the issue there? I mean a lot of people confuse iBooks with iPad.
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Yeah, I say this sounds quite plausible as well. Probably loading an iBooks FXL EPUB into some other program.
How about iBooks on the iPad and iBooks on the Mac? Are there differences?