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Originally Posted by DNSB
Sorry but I was testing the ePub you attached in message #8 in this thread. It does not fail using Thorium under Windows but did have issues using calibre's viewer. This issue was corrected by Kovid Goyal in the patch mentioned in his message #16 and no longer fails under calibre's viewer. I disregarded any references to attempts to link to files not in the ePub.
I looked at your missing articles from the .zip file linked in message #17 in this thread and the issue there is very simply that there are links to non-existent files. I opened the epub in Sigil and yes, I got errors. Perhaps that your reference to "<a href="../article_2/index.html" doesn't work since there article_2/index.html is not be be found in the ePub since only article_0, article_1, article_3 and article_4 exist in the epub. The same for <a href="../../feed_1/index.html"> since feed_1/index.html does not exist. Complaining that links to non-existent locations does not work is not going gain you much sympathy.
While I had the file open in Sigil, I ran epubcheck on it and that showed 4 errors and I have attached the image of the error messages and the files as shown in Sigil's file browser.
In future, I would suggest checking your ePub using epubcheck in calibre's editor before complaining about issues. |
Sorry DNSB. I think there has been a misunderstanding about our messages.
When I saw your message #18, I thought it was the reply to my message #17. Then, I post my message #19 as a reply to your message #18.
But now I see your message #18 was your reply to Kovid message #16.
I shouldn't have posted message #19. My apologies.
After this mess, I think the situation is as follows:
- unkn0wn started this thread pointing out two different issues (the two images of message #1).
- As for the first issue (first image):
- I posted message #8 attaching some information.
- Kovid modified Calibre (message #16)
- DNSB tested the modification (message #18)
- As for the second issue (second image):
- I posted message #17 attaching some information.
- DNSB post message #20 indicating the epub file Calibre has generated is badly formatted (links to non-existent files). I agree with this as I indicated in my attachment (post #17)
- As I said, this second issue wasn't important for me and didn't expected a reply (at least, in the short term). In any case, what to do now?. I think there are several options:
- 1. Do nothing: Calibre's current behaviour is valid (Calibre write warnings to its log indicating problems abut fetching. Therefore, users should decide what to do with the resulting epub file).
- 2. Modify Calibre so that it doesn't generate the epub file: an error (not a warning) is generated when it's not possible to fetch a file.
- 3. Modify Calibre so that it generates the epub file without inconsistencies.
- 4. Modify Calibre (more specifically, Calibre-viewer) so that it reads the epub file despite the inconsistencies.
- 5. Another solution.
- In my opinion, the best option is number 3. But, anyway, it's Kovid Goyal's decision.