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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Speaking as one of the Sigil Maintainers: he wasn't really spreading falsehoods. If the Epub wasn't created with Sigil, it's entirely possible that opening and saving without making any edits could cause unforeseen damage. <SNIP>
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interesting sidenote. I had to tweak an ePUB this week that was done by one of our least-experienced eBookmakers. Nothing hot and heavy, just stuff that she won't do that way in another 6 months or so. But HERE is the interesting part:
for some unknown reason, Sigil created an ePUB with TWO (2) mimetype files.
I would have bug-reported it (assuming it isn't already there), but I have NO idea what happened. I was working in the normal way; I changed up some image names (spaces <sigh>); I changed up some sizing on one of the images; I deleted some breaks in a Dedication between lines (tsk)...and that's about it. The bloody thing passed ePUBcheck, mind you--I was only alerted to the problem when I went to view it with ADE, which puked. It wasn't until we unzipped it that we found the problem.
CLUELESS as to the cause. No crashes or anything else, that I know of. Have not had a chance to head over to the list to see if this is known, common, or is known to happen when X occurs. Just thought I'd mention it. I was shocked--it's funny how fast we become accustomed to something being stable, eh?
(Oh--and I saw the Dreaded PSO'D! The
Dreaded Pink Screen O'Death! I'd like to say, if I wasn't already, this event would have made me a Troo Believer in the Preview mode. I had this sucker open on Preview, deleted a tag, so that its partner tag went bonkers, and the "oops, only rendered to here" PSO'D appeared--in PREVIEW mode. Fortunately, that meant I could easily fix the issue in the code. LOVED that. I remember full well when the PSO'D
ate ePUBS unrecoverably. Good Maintainers!)
P.S.:
Jon, anyone using ePUBTools CAN indeed open an ePUB in Word.
Tex is correct in his recitation of our tediously boring and in-minute-detail destruction sets. And the reality of them. I've now lost track of the egregiously large disparity on the "How to use ADE" 90-second video link hits versus how often it's been sent out. I have YET to figure out, without grossly inconveniencing myself/my crew, how we could FORCE the clients to actually read the instructions, in the proper order. It gets worse DAILY, and no: I'm really NOT exaggerating.
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