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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans
In this specific case, converting PDF to EPUB using Calibre would get more usable code than the copying/pasting into Book View.
This would be one step instead, then having to clean up all the mess, instead of trying to manually copy/paste each page one-by-one.
But be warned, PDF is the worst input format... always try to work from something better if available.
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I never thought of that. I have Calibre on Windows, but haven't installed it on Linux yet. (Maybe I'll just try that on Windows if I have to start over again.) Will Calibre include the images in the PDF? That is the main reason it was taking me so long to convert it to ePub in Sigil.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
As to how to possibly recover the contents of the epub in question: epubs are just specially structured zip files. Back it up somewhere, unzip it (might have to change the file extension to .zip for your archive manager to work with it) and take a look a look at the html code at the area in question in that particular file mentioned in the error. Maybe the code in question can be hand edited to fix the problem. Either way, any of the other xhtml files can be imported into a new Sigil epub. Even the contents of the problematic one can be pasted into a new file in Sigil's Code View. Just stay away from the problematic code that triggers the error.
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That is very good to know! Thank you for that information. I will probably give that a try later this week.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Yes. Not as an integral part of Sigil anyway. We've been developing an application that can be used as an external editor to replace many of the aspects of BookView (including copying content into Sigil from other sources).
Unfortunately, it's not likely that the newest versions of Sigil, or the stopgap app in question--PageEdit--will be available in Mint's software repositories. You would have to compile them yourself.
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Thank you for clarifying that!