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First, lo (do I know my Peeps, or what?), sure enough, Wolfie found one just like it. I'm damned, but...same CSS, same "lump the whole fandangle thing together" (HTML), same everything. And still...nary a clue as to what MADE it. Hmmmm...
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Every paragraph, mind you, is text inside a span class inside a p class. The p class sets the alignment, the type of paragraph (text indent, block, etc.) the font size and the margins. The span sets the font color, background color (usu. transparent, mind you...), the font-family, font size (yes, twice now, in both the span and the p class, you're not wrong), font weight and style. Hitch |
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I've just figured something out. The sites I mostly get back from a google/bing/yahoo search are online shops or links to ebay. But, none of these are in the USA. They are in other countries like Scandinavia.
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Break the number down to hex pairs and we get : CF = 207 6B = 107 BF = 191 71 = 113 If the class was always applied to something with the same characteristics it might be a way of describing them, say the colour in RGBA format (this is a light shade of pink so not likely in an ebook). Is there anything in the css class definition that could be coded with four hex pairs ? If so the naming system used may be a reflection of what it is describing. BobC |
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Are all identical.Wolfie tells me that this link is free to use, so, the book he found is here: https://bibliotecapemobil.ro/content...-_Viforul.epub . I haven't had a chance to delve further, Bob, since just reading your post, but I most certainly shall. Can't be before Wednesday; I'm slammed with some video conferences that I cannot alter, between now and Weds. a.m. Nonetheless, ladies and gents (any other ladies here, now that I think about it?), here's the sibling ePUB for your sleuthing delight. I'd love to play Holmes with this, but it's going to have to wait. Hitch |
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Well, I had a look at that book and you say it seems to have the same css styles and general look of the one you have problems with. Examining it content.opf has the following in it :
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<!-- Your OPF file was broken so Sigil tried to rebuild it for you. --> I worked back on the Romanian site to see if I could find if all the books they hosted were similar but they were not. The page that leads to the book itself, on the cover it shows "Editura : BookLand" which I took to be the source of their book. I have checked on www.bookland.com and the book doesn't appear to be on there. There is the whole trilogy at book-land.ro a site that doesn't appear to be associated with Bookland.com. It's possible the book we have here was derived from that version by splitting the trilogy into its three components. BookLand(.com) is owned by Batmore Capital Ltd and the website is registered in the British Virgin Islands to a Sergey Leshchenko. Batmore Capital also own the OBREEY (Pocketbook) brand. I located a free copy of Viforul on a Moldavian Book site (www.bestseller.md) and checked that out - it was clean. I also note there is a new query (i.e. in the last day) on the DevExpress support site which mentions : Quote:
The query refers to their XtraRichEdit component. Somewhere down the line it looks like your ebook has been through a modification using the above component. Perhaps your correspondent is using some web based service as he thinks just to view the file and it is getting modified by that. Either that or he's not admitting to editing your file. BobC Last edited by BobC; 04-12-2016 at 01:08 PM. Reason: Evidence of idiocy removed. |
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FWIW, after looking at the sample I think BobC has hit the nail on the head. I think the .cs rules in the stylesheet are just randomly assigned a name by converting a random integer to hex (all 4 bytes). I could see no pattern in any of the hex values in any of the CS names with regard to how or where they are used in the .html text files.
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(I have a really crazy 24 hours coming up, so I'm racing like mad, thanks to you all, individually)... It's weird. I'd seen that in a Google search--the DevExpress XRE Suite. I have never used it, or even really known of it, so I'd tabled that for future investigation. I didn't think it would pan out. Shows to go ya! I wish I knew if that was used someplace ELSE. I can't, for the life of me, figure out how THIS client could get there. It's just...the whole bloody thing is bizarre. Thanks, I mean it. Hitch |
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DevExpress are best known for non-cheap .NET development tools, mainly used by corporate IT, Rich Text Edit control says
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The thing is, Red--just like my kerfuffled brain before, NONE of that makes sense for this guy. He worked for one of the boroughs in NYC, until retirement. He's patently unknowledgeable about eBooks, and anything tech. He still has a yahoo.com email address. Both the expense, and the arcane part of it, just don't jive with this client. It's got to be the back end for some automagic conversion via a browser. I can't see anything else that makes any sense. OR, some freebie download for automagic conversion. Thanks VERY much for the info. Hmph. Hitch |
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TIMELINE: Booknook.biz, night...
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So, this client tells us, gosh, he can't email us, and he can't let us know this or that, because he's going to these really REMOTE areas. For weeks, adn this is why he can't down-/up-load his book files, etc. In a fit of despair, I tell him, screw it, I'll upload the bloody things, at least then, I'll know that the right file got where it was going, right? No charge; at this point, I just want the agony to STOP. and then... Spoiler:
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@Hitch - let's say your client writes in Word or Writer. Let's say they've realised that what they sent you has a substantial error - e.g a chapter out of order which screwed up the plot, or made text factually incorrect. So they find something that converts the EPUB to DOCX/ODT that happens to use the DevExp tools, after they've made the necessary changes to the substance of the book in Word/Writer they convert the saved DOCX/ODT back to EPUB using the same tool.
Suggestion : reduce the original and butchered epubs back to plain text and run them through the Beyond Compare washing machine to determine if the actual text of the book has been changed. BR |
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Ooooh, aren't you a clever lad? Indeed. That's an excellent idea. I'll do that as soon as I'm out from under my video-conf. requirements for this week. Naughty thing; you should go into this business. (Well, wait--I wouldn't wish that on anyone, but, what I meant was ![]() Hitch |
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