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Originally Posted by EuroScribe
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Nope, not working guys. Lots of images have the alt text descript " "(literally empty). Nuking the images and reconverting just resulted in blank areas.
The underlying code is pretty hideous too. Lots of <div></div> along with a media.css file to boot, where 50% of the code is probably dedicated just for making those drop caps work.  . My epub skills are pretty rudimentary, it's beyond me to wrangle this monstrosity.
I give up. Oh the joys of Vellum. (The book is built with vellum because the template is instantly identifiable).
I am getting quite fed up with how indie authors are circle jerking around vellum. It's becoming abundantly clear that the tech illiteracy of the masses have real life consequences for tech literates too. I mean you can make a reasonably clean epub with vellum too, just turn off all decorations and don't use unnecessary images. The underlying code might still be ugly but at least calibre will be able to handle it pretty well. But nope, authors need to use each and every decorative feature of vellum along with custom image headers and such to make their book look "pretty".
I am now painstakingly manually cleaning the epub using the PageEdit plugin of Sigil. Oh dear.
Lesson learnt - I am never going to use any unnecessary image in my book. |
Vellum is a piece of garbage (to be nice). The code it comes out with is hideous. Also, using PageEdit is also a really bad idea. There is no WYSIWYG solution that will work. NONE AT ALL! You need to hand edit the code. Learning HTML/CSS is not all that difficult. The average novel does not need any special formatting.
The problem is that for us to give you more help, we need to see the code. Is it OK for you to post the CSS and the first chapter alone with the images?
You can make a copy of the ePub and delete everything but the CSS, the images, the cover HTML, and the first chapter HTML.Then you can attach it to a post in this thread and we can have a look at it.