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rjnagle · 10-10-2009, 10:18 AM

sorry to be such a windows wimp, but is there a windows way to do this?

I'm using a gui tool.

hopefully i won't need to install cygwin?

On linux, it looks so easy (sigh).

Using izarcc, I was able to eliminate the previous error only to see that I've created another error which prevents epubcheck from working.

epubcheck says; ERROR: first.epub: META-INF/container.xml is missing

calibre ebook viewer says:

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ERROR: Could not open ebook
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File name in directory "META-INF\container.xml" and header "META-INF/container.xml" differ.

this sounds like a zipping problem.

There looks like there's an izarcc command line utility. Other ideas?

10-10-2009, 10:18 AM	#3
rjnagle Zealot Posts: 126 Karma: 2167 Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Houston, Texas Device: ipad 1, Nook Simple Touch, Kindle 3, ebookwise 1150	sorry to be such a windows wimp, but is there a windows way to do this? I'm using a gui tool. hopefully i won't need to install cygwin? On linux, it looks so easy (sigh). Using izarcc, I was able to eliminate the previous error only to see that I've created another error which prevents epubcheck from working. epubcheck says; ERROR: first.epub: META-INF/container.xml is missing calibre ebook viewer says: --------------------------- ERROR: Could not open ebook --------------------------- File name in directory "META-INF\container.xml" and header "META-INF/container.xml" differ. this sounds like a zipping problem. There looks like there's an izarcc command line utility. Other ideas? Last edited by rjnagle; 10-10-2009 at 10:30 AM.