Adding com.apple.ibooks

Rand Brittain · 01-19-2014, 09:58 PM

Before talking about what doesn't work, it seems only polite to say that Calibre's new editor is fast and amazing and I look forward to using it for some time.

I've been trying to add the necessary com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file to an ePub I'm working on. Using the Add Files dialog puts it in the wrong folder instead of in META-INF. Adding it to META-INF manually causes the editor to crash when I try to open it up again, like so:

Code:

calibre, version 1.19.0
ERROR: Failed to open book: Failed to open book, click Show details for more information.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\job.py", line 34, in run
  File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\boss.py", line 42, in get_container
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\polish\container.py", line 1112, in get_container
  File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\polish\container.py", line 839, in __init__
InvalidEpub: No META-INF/container.xml in epub

Is there anything I can do to make that not happen, or is it a bug in need of fixing?

kovidgoyal · 01-19-2014, 10:12 PM

Click the new file button, in the resulting dialog, simply type

META-INF/com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml

and the file will be created in the META-INF folder.

Rand Brittain · 01-19-2014, 10:13 PM

Brilliant!

01-19-2014, 09:58 PM	#1
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 427 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	Adding com.apple.ibooks Before talking about what doesn't work, it seems only polite to say that Calibre's new editor is fast and amazing and I look forward to using it for some time. I've been trying to add the necessary com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file to an ePub I'm working on. Using the Add Files dialog puts it in the wrong folder instead of in META-INF. Adding it to META-INF manually causes the editor to crash when I try to open it up again, like so: Code: calibre, version 1.19.0 ERROR: Failed to open book: Failed to open book, click Show details for more information. Traceback (most recent call last): File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\job.py", line 34, in run File "site-packages\calibre\gui2\tweak_book\boss.py", line 42, in get_container File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\polish\container.py", line 1112, in get_container File "site-packages\calibre\ebooks\oeb\polish\container.py", line 839, in __init__ InvalidEpub: No META-INF/container.xml in epub Is there anything I can do to make that not happen, or is it a bug in need of fixing?

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01-19-2014, 10:12 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,276 Karma: 27111060 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Click the new file button, in the resulting dialog, simply type META-INF/com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml and the file will be created in the META-INF folder.

01-19-2014, 10:13 PM	#3
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 427 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	Brilliant!

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