What am I just not getting about epub?

[brewt]

See one-two messages up - got it to work.

Does my example epub work in a sony ok? Could I trouble someone to check?

-bjc

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by brewt

See one-two messages up - got it to work.

Does my example epub work in a sony ok? Could I trouble someone to check?

-bjc

Cotton_Patch.epub does not work here. It sticks on a blank page 1 of 20 and freezes there. Entering a page #2 does not work either. I'll give it another three minutes and force a reboot.

[JeffElkins]

Originally Posted by JeffElkins

Cotton_Patch.epub does not work here. It sticks on a blank page 1 of 20 and freezes there. Forcing a jump to page #2 does not work either. I'll give it another three minutes and force a reboot.

Forced reboot.

[brewt]

Now, I saw that blanky-pagey-thingy in Digital Editions, and assumed it was 'cause I didn't specify any metadata through html2epub. that's also where fbreader crashed.

Mr. Goyle?

-bjc

boo-frickety-hoo.
Dr Evil

[brewt]

Hmmmm.

If I specify a Cover image (jpg) through the command line, it'll populate that first page in Digital Editions - I've attached the epub - Jeff, Could I trouble you (or someone) to try again to load this into a Sony?

DE still does not page down from the cover to the first page - I HAVE to use the Toc on the left to navigate beyond the cover. If I do, I can the curse back UP to the cover, but then still can't get back to the text.

Being Sony-less, I can't tell how to get to the TOC on the sony.

If I use the calibre GUI, and attempt to add a cover, I get a little traceback:

gui_title
Detailed traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre\gui2\dialogs\epub.pyo", line 90, in select_cover
AttributeError: gui_title

(Calibre 0.4.91)

Obviously, I'm still doing lots of things wrong - more thoughts?

-bjc

[kovidgoyal]

The GUI cover adding bug will be fixed in the next release.

[brewt]

Ok, so now this is starting to get interesting.

I found Cool Reader at SourceForge:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/crengine/

Claims to open epubs.

When I try to open any of the epubs I've made so far with it, it says:

ERROR: Error Reading Epub Format.

So I try to open the toc html file with it, and it says:

No Title

with some garbage further on.

Hmm. So I open my TOC in DreamWeaver, and clean up Word Code HTML, File, and rebuild the epub using command-line-Calibre.

Now the epub opens in DE (still doesn't open in Cool Reader) to the first page of the toc, (not a blank page) but only the root level, not showing the sub-directories files. The TOC is intact off to the left, and I can page down to start reading. But the 2nd level of the Toc isn't there on the page.

Obviously, the culprit seems to be Word-Processed TOCs made by SiteMap Creator.

I've attached the latest generation of the epub, for the Sony-tryers out there.

Just wait'll I get off on a tangent on Styles in DE.

-bjc

Part Bloodhound, Part Buffoon, Part Boo-ya.

[kovidgoyal]

i hope you've upgraded to calibre 0.4.92 it has various epub related fixes.

[brewt]

By George, now we're gettin' somewhere! calibre 0.4.92 built an epub through the gui, added a cover image, working toc, working hyperlinks, fairly decent rendition of the styles (but some of that may be DE that I'm seeing as weird - the <Title> style isn't quite what I was expecting). Fabulous Work, Mr. Goyle.

Attached is the latest-generation epub example, and it works in Digital Editions! Still doesn't load into Cool Reader, and now my fbreader is hopelessly hosed (the app won't even launch). So, we can conveniently say THOSE other apps have issues until proven otherwise.

Can I re-trouble-again someone to load the attached epub into a Sony? (should be better now).

Oh, and has anyone written a css to handle the placements of the page numbers in DE?

-bjc

[kovidgoyal]

Note that calibre doesn't change CSS information, except for font sizes and line-heights, where it rescales everything. And the name if Goyal, not Goyle

[brewt]

Typopologies, sir.

So, if we expect the epub to be read in DE, we need to set a right margin that allows for the page numbers - anyway to have a javascript to detect the reader and reset it back for other non-adobe-readers?

-bjc

[kovidgoyal]

I dont know of any epub reader that actually executes javascript except, perhaps openberg lector

[Dave Berk]

Supporting Javascript is part of the epub spec?

[kovidgoyal]

IIRC, no.

[brewt]

Openberg Lector 5 doesn't load into Firefox 3, and the openberg sourceforge page is being revamped with WordPress, so it seems to be offline at the moment.

-bjc