Hi guys,
I just wanted to say a quick "thank you" for all your suggestions, and encouragements.
After some toying around with the HTML to EPUB conversion, I was finally able to get something working in Calibre, and it was really cool to see my book as an EPUB.
I had no idea idea that epub is just a zip file with (X)HTML files. I was able to re-use a lot of files, etc. There are some issues I need to fix, but I think it will work.
I ran an online epub validator on it, which showed some interesting issues.
1.
Mimetype file entry is missing or is not the first file in the archive.
Strange, because I insert it first (uncompressed), and it's definitely there.
2.
Error while parsing file: value of attribute "id" is invalid; must be an XML name without colons
Okay, my bad. Some of my IDs start with a number. I will need to change that.
3.
Error while parsing file: element "u" not allowed anywhere
Argh!! Now I have to replace <u> with something like <span class="u">, etc. That doesn't look good at all. Who came up with that idea?!?
Is this perhaps because my html files say they're xml? Should I remove that line?
This is what I have now:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
(From a template I used)
4.
Error while parsing file: element "img" missing required attribute "alt"
Sigh... Okay, no idea what I'm going to put in there yet.
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I think all that is doable, and Calibre is displaying it properly already anyway.
I came across Draft2Digital before as well. That looks really promising.
Anyway, now you know how it went.
Kind regards,
Jarno