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BenChen · 06-24-2016, 10:09 PM

Latest Update: The current version is 1.5.0
Recent Changes:

Changed "Find EPUB3" button into a more general "Find in current folder..." button that opens a dialog with options to find 1) EPUB3 files, 2) OPF files with tag errors (and the option to fix those errors if found), or 3) OPF files containing a user-defined string. Any files found will then be listed in the batch file list. Clicking on an entry in the list will open those files in the main window.
Bug fixes.

Note: the reason for looking for tag errors is that it appears that EPUB Metadata Editor has at some point in the past and possibly for quite a few versions made changes to the OPF file that left it with ">>" when adding or possibly replacing a cover image. A more recent version (briefly) introduced "<<" as well! Most EPUB readers cannot handle these sorts of errors in an XML file. So using the new "Find in current folder" dialog, you can search a single folder for any EPUBs with these sorts of errors and fix them.

Note, too: it may not be too difficult to extend the searching capabilities so that the entire contents of all the EPUB files in the current folder could be searched for a user-defined string. I am not sure if this is something people would like to be able to do. For a large number of EPUB files, this would take a very long time to perform. Let me know what you think in the comments...

06-24-2016, 10:09 PM	#180
BenChen EPUB Metadata ****** Posts: 525 Karma: 26874 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: Kobo Glo HD	New version: 1.5.0 Latest Update: The current version is 1.5.0 Recent Changes: Changed "Find EPUB3" button into a more general "Find in current folder..." button that opens a dialog with options to find 1) EPUB3 files, 2) OPF files with tag errors (and the option to fix those errors if found), or 3) OPF files containing a user-defined string. Any files found will then be listed in the batch file list. Clicking on an entry in the list will open those files in the main window. Bug fixes. Note: the reason for looking for tag errors is that it appears that EPUB Metadata Editor has at some point in the past and possibly for quite a few versions made changes to the OPF file that left it with ">>" when adding or possibly replacing a cover image. A more recent version (briefly) introduced "<<" as well! Most EPUB readers cannot handle these sorts of errors in an XML file. So using the new "Find in current folder" dialog, you can search a single folder for any EPUBs with these sorts of errors and fix them. Note, too: it may not be too difficult to extend the searching capabilities so that the entire contents of all the EPUB files in the current folder could be searched for a user-defined string. I am not sure if this is something people would like to be able to do. For a large number of EPUB files, this would take a very long time to perform. Let me know what you think in the comments...