Sigil, the ePub editor

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by poodlemama

Is there any way to remove all page numbers from an ePub?

If you mean the small grey page numbers displayed on the right of the screen, these are not in the ePub but are added by the Adobe ePub display software.

Currently the Adobe software has no option to turn them off.

[poodlemama]

Originally Posted by pdurrant

If you mean the small grey page numbers displayed on the right of the screen, these are not in the ePub but are added by the Adobe ePub display software.

Currently the Adobe software has no option to turn them off.

No, I mean the page numbers that were put in by the author... obviously when a pdf goes down to a PRS600 display the pages don't even out... so on the middle of the page there will be a number showing where it was the end of that page... maybe I'm converting the PDF incorrectly with Calibre?

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by poodlemama

No, I mean the page numbers that were put in by the author... obviously when a pdf goes down to a PRS600 display the pages don't even out... so on the middle of the page there will be a number showing where it was the end of that page... maybe I'm converting the PDF incorrectly with Calibre?

Converting PDFs is always tricky. Try asking in the Calibre forum. By the time you're into editing with Sigil, it's a bit late - much better to never get them into the ePub in the first place.

The only way I can think to do it in Sigil is with a clever grep expression in the search/replace

[bcmartinez]

I read here that an issue regarding epubs exported from InDesign would not open in Sigil, but that the issue had been fixed in 0.1.5. I'm using 0.1.8 on the Mac and Windows and I'm having the same (or similar) issue.

When I try to open a manually-created epub, it opens fine, but when I try an InDesign-created epub, I get the error, "Cannot read file. /Users/bryan/.Sigil/scratchpad/.C1Z/OEBPS/myfile.xhtml: No such file or directory."

I tried removing the date tag as described here, but I get the same error. Is anyone else having this issue?

Thanks!

[Valloric]

Read this wiki page. Create an issue on the tracker (but read the linked page first).

[sjkramer]

Originally Posted by bcmartinez

I read here that an issue regarding epubs exported from InDesign would not open in Sigil, but that the issue had been fixed in 0.1.5. I'm using 0.1.8 on the Mac and Windows and I'm having the same (or similar) issue.

When I try to open a manually-created epub, it opens fine, but when I try an InDesign-created epub, I get the error, "Cannot read file. /Users/bryan/.Sigil/scratchpad/.C1Z/OEBPS/myfile.xhtml: No such file or directory."

I tried removing the date tag as described here, but I get the same error. Is anyone else having this issue?

I had the same problem with 0.1.8 and have found a workaround that might help you for the time being: I opened the epub file in Calibre (which is also freely available) and re-exported it as an epub file. I was then able to open the resulting file (now located in the Calibre library folder) with no trouble in Sigil.

Did you end up making a bug report for this problem? If not, I could give it a go—since that's what is preferred!

[bcmartinez]

Originally Posted by sjkramer

I had the same problem with 0.1.8 and have found a workaround that might help you for the time being: I opened the epub file in Calibre (which is also freely available) and re-exported it as an epub file. I was then able to open the resulting file (now located in the Calibre library folder) with no trouble in Sigil.

Did you end up making a bug report for this problem? If not, I could give it a go—since that's what is preferred!

Thanks for the info! I didn't report the bug -- go for it

[banjomike]

Can Sigil load an epub (one containing lots of split htm files) and export a single html/doc/rtf/odt file? I need to do some extensive editing, probably in OpenOFfice, on a document I only have as an epub.

Second question, can Sigil be removed from the system path after install?

Thanks.

[Valloric]

Originally Posted by banjomike

Can Sigil load an epub (one containing lots of split htm files) and export a single html/doc/rtf/odt file? I need to do some extensive editing, probably in OpenOFfice, on a document I only have as an epub.

Not yet, sorry.

The closest you can get to this is to open an epub and then save it as SGF. Then just extract that SGF file (it's actually a ZIP archive). In the archive will be a OEBPS folder, and in that a single XHTML file and resource folders (/images, /fonts, /styles etc).

Originally Posted by banjomike

Second question, can Sigil be removed from the system path after install?

The current version (and a few before this one) doesn't add Sigil to the system path. When it was done, it was done only on Linux systems.

It was done with a soft link (to the Sigil executable) placed in /usr/bin. The uninstaller would remove this link.

[banjomike]

Originally Posted by Valloric

Not yet, sorry.

The closest you can get to this is to open an epub and then save it as SGF. The just extract that SGF file (it's actually a ZIP archive). In the archive will be a OEBPS folder, and in that a single XHTML file and resource folders (/images, /fonts, /styles etc).

The current version (and a few before this one) don't add Sigil to the system path. When it was done, it was done only on Linux systems.

Thanks for the fast reply.

I cannot find an OpenOffice function to read or import an XHTML file. It will export them happily enough just not read them. I shall mess around for a while.

Thanks

[sirsowk]

Valloric - Thanks for the great product. Kudos to you.

BTW, I did encountered some slowness in Sigil while editing the document. Assuming it is due to 32 bit application where it uses Rosetta to execute inputs. I am not sure if you would make it 64 bit someday?

Also, I went on and searched for wysiwyg editor for xml or xhtml and found an open-source application which is Amaya. I thought about referring this to you and maybe you could check this out. Yes, they have source on that website and maybe you can take a look to see if you can improve the slowness part? Just an idea here.

Keep up good job!

Sirsowk

[Valloric]

Originally Posted by sirsowk

BTW, I did encountered some slowness in Sigil while editing the document.

We were just talking about that today. See this post.

I just recently found out about Sigil through this forum. I just wanted to offer a big thanks to the program developer. It made my most recent effort to to edit an epub file 10x easier than it would have been without. I understand that this is all still fairly new and in development but I did have a couple of observations.

The program has an annoying habit of when it encounters some non-fatal error it reloads the document moving the cursor to the top of the document. Sort of like a child that runs home to mamma whenever he has a boo-boo.

It is not really a flaw but it took me some getting use to that the program automatically replaces alternate character entities with the display representation (for example Greek letters) even in the code view. I guess I am just used to code remaining code.

Anyway again great work so far. I am eager for the availability of version 3.

[Valloric]

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

The program has an annoying habit of when it encounters some non-fatal error it reloads the document moving the cursor to the top of the document. Sort of like a child that runs home to mamma whenever he has a boo-boo.

You get karma for making me laugh.

But what non-fatal errors are you talking about?

Originally Posted by Hamlet53

It is not really a flaw but it took me some getting use to that the program automatically replaces alternate character entities with the display representation (for example Greek letters) even in the code view. I guess I am just used to code remaining code.

That's HTML Tidy. It's configured to preserve named entities and character references, but sometimes it just ignores that and does its own thing. Yeah. That's right. It's a lovely piece of code, that Tidy.

But really... everything in an epub is Unicode. There are things like & nbsp; that you want to see in the code, but other than those hard-to-distinguish characters, I really don't see the point of character references. So personally, I'm not that bothered by it.

And either way, an epub renderer doesn't care.

Originally Posted by Valloric

You get karma for making me laugh.

But what non-fatal errors are you talking about?



That's HTML Tidy. It's configured to preserve named entities and character references, but sometimes it just ignores that and does its own thing. Yeah. That's right. It's a lovely piece of code, that Tidy.

But really... everything in an epub is Unicode. There are things like & nbsp; that you want to see in the code, but other than those hard-to-distinguish characters, I really don't see the point of character references. So personally, I'm not that bothered by it.

And either way, an epub renderer doesn't care.

Usually the event happens when switching from code few to book view. I suspect that it does have something to to with TIDY. It often is trigered by open tags.

One thing I've noticed about the use of TIDY; it often 'corrects' code in a way I don't want. My HTML editor of choice is HTML Kit and this includes TIDY as a plugin. However, it produces a side-by-side comparison of original code and corrected with changes highlighted.