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Kratos · 11-06-2012, 12:47 PM

I have found a workaround to the ITMS-9000 problem with the help of deep searching with Ms Google.

I opened my epub in Sigil, I then saved it as a new epub. I unzipped the epub to have a look and it made some changes. In the ncx it replaced spaces in file names with %20. It also reordered the contents of the epub. So inside there is content.opf, toc.ncx, a text folder, images folder, and styles folder. Whilst Sigil arranges the content of the epub to a different way Im not complaining as I have uploaded it with iTunes Producer and haven't had any error messages from Apple yet. I hope this helps anybody else who this drives mental.

But if anybody does know how I could have fixed my epub without using Sigil then I'd be happy to know as I tried multiple combinations of using %20 and underscores/ hyphens in the ncx file and renaming the html files and editing the opf file references.

But am happy now.

11-06-2012, 12:47 PM	#4
Kratos Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle 3, iPhone, iPad, PC	I have found a workaround to the ITMS-9000 problem with the help of deep searching with Ms Google. I opened my epub in Sigil, I then saved it as a new epub. I unzipped the epub to have a look and it made some changes. In the ncx it replaced spaces in file names with %20. It also reordered the contents of the epub. So inside there is content.opf, toc.ncx, a text folder, images folder, and styles folder. Whilst Sigil arranges the content of the epub to a different way Im not complaining as I have uploaded it with iTunes Producer and haven't had any error messages from Apple yet. I hope this helps anybody else who this drives mental. But if anybody does know how I could have fixed my epub without using Sigil then I'd be happy to know as I tried multiple combinations of using %20 and underscores/ hyphens in the ncx file and renaming the html files and editing the opf file references. But am happy now.