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Originally Posted by odedta
I see, it's so stupid that a company this size can't make a working epub viewer...
Thanks dgat
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Be careful what you wish for.
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Originally Posted by dgatwood
It isn't a viewer. It's an editor. Making a tool that can modify an EPUB file is a nontrivial task even if your tools created the content to begin with. When you get complex content with arbitrarily complex structure and CSS, the only editors that could realistically work with it would be those designed for professional book makers. Any tool designed for your average end user would be almost guaranteed to break things by being too simple, too automatic, too easy to use.
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B&N's NookPress does have an editor--and woe to the sucker that uses it! I have lost track of the books that clients come back to me about, saying "oh, Hitch, you know, I only wanted to make a few small changes on the About page, and I used the B&N editor, and now the book's all messed up." That thing should come with a warning label: "Using this Editor will be hazardous to your bookmaker's health." Or even, "Here there be dragons!"
Something.
Indeed they bloody well are (dragons!), because B&N puts their OWN CSS and CSS classes into the already-finished ePUB, and the results are VERY BAD.
I'll stick with an editor that I can control. Sigil, Calibre's HTML editor, even Blue Griffon, which is far inferior, IMHO, to Sigil. The NookPress one? Good lord a'mighty, save me from those disastrous attempts by B&N to "help" us.
Hitch