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Old 06-18-2011, 07:08 PM   #1
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After converting to html to epub, file won't open.

As a new Sigil user, I tried converting an HTML file to ePub. After saving it in Sigil, I tried to open it with Cool Reader (PC version), and got an error "Error while opening document".

How can I determine what the problem is and correct it?


For what it's worth, I tried clicking the Validate button. It comes up with a single issue:

OEBPS/Test/logo.jpg
This resource is reachable but not present in the OPF <manifest>.
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Old 06-18-2011, 07:34 PM   #2
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As a new Sigil user, I tried converting an HTML file to ePub. After saving it in Sigil, I tried to open it with Cool Reader (PC version), and got an error "Error while opening document".

How can I determine what the problem is and correct it?


For what it's worth, I tried clicking the Validate button. It comes up with a single issue:

OEBPS/Test/logo.jpg
This resource is reachable but not present in the OPF <manifest>.
Somewhere there is one or more lines with Test/logo.jpg

Sigil puts images in: ../Images/
so if there is a logo.jpg, S&R Text/logo.jpg to Images/logo.jpg, otherwise: Delete those references (<img... </img> )
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Old 06-18-2011, 07:53 PM   #3
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Somewhere there is one or more lines with Test/logo.jpg

Sigil puts images in: ../Images/
so if there is a logo.jpg, S&R Text/logo.jpg to Images/logo.jpg, otherwise: Delete those references (<img... </img> )
Thanks for explaining that. I found and deleted the reference, and the Validate function reports no errors.

However, the file still won't open anywhere else. What else could be wrong?
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Old 06-18-2011, 07:59 PM   #4
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Thanks for explaining that. I found and deleted the reference, and the Validate function reports no errors.

However, the file still won't open anywhere else. What else could be wrong?
where is anywhere else?

Many readers will not open a huge segment (260K compressed/section is a good number to stay under). If your epub file is over 300K, you need to do 1 or more 'Sigil splits' (usually before Chapter starts).
If you use Firefox, get the EPBREADER plugin (down 1 forum )
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where is anywhere else?

Many readers will not open a huge segment (260K compressed/section is a good number to stay under). If your epub file is over 300K, you need to do 1 or more 'Sigil splits' (usually before Chapter starts).
If you use Firefox, get the EPBREADER plugin (down 1 forum )

Thanks, I didn't know that about the size requirements. By Sigil Splits, do you mean chapter breaks or something else? I saw something about SGF breaks as well...
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Thanks, I didn't know that about the size requirements. By Sigil Splits, do you mean chapter breaks or something else? I saw something about SGF breaks as well...
Not a 'requirement'.
A limitation of handheld devices

That is it. the CH icon.
Place the cursor at the END of the line you want to split (no mid point usage.) the click the button
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Old 06-18-2011, 08:58 PM   #7
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That was it! Once I did that, the file was openable. Thanks!

One remaining problem, however, is that the cover image - which shows up fine in Sigil, doesn't show up when viewing the file through a reader. I made sure to flag it as the cover in Sigil, but that doesn't seem to matter.

Any ideas what I'm missing?
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Old 06-18-2011, 09:01 PM   #8
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Are both the cover image and the 'page' with the cover flagged?
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Old 06-18-2011, 09:12 PM   #9
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The image was, I just flagged the page. It made no difference.

I deleted and re-inserted the image, still no go.
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Old 06-18-2011, 09:38 PM   #10
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If it makes any difference, I'll mention that since this started as a single HTML file, which I added chapter breaks to - the code for the cover page contains all of the CSS code that was originally there and intended for the whole document.
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If it makes any difference, I'll mention that since this started as a single HTML file, which I added chapter breaks to - the code for the cover page contains all of the CSS code that was originally there and intended for the whole document.
You really need to put the CSS stuff into the stylesheet (and add a <Link ..> on each page).

If you had first converted with Calibre, then do the fine tune with Sigil, most of the work would have been done for you.
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Good to know. But that's not likely to cause the issue with the cover, is it?
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Good to know. But that's not likely to cause the issue with the cover, is it?
Not unless you have an style error.
Sigil does not check the CSS in V.3 and only checks the <Style> tags and class syntax

Keep the image size about 600x800 or smaller. jpg only,
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You might want to check to make sure you don't have multiple copies of the same image as well. I had to adjust the size of an image not long ago (I scaled it in GIMP) and even though I'd cut it from the page it was inserted into the copies I'd cut still remained in the image folder which made the file grow in size quite a bit (27 mb).
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You might want to check to make sure you don't have multiple copies of the same image as well. I had to adjust the size of an image not long ago (I scaled it in GIMP) and even though I'd cut it from the page it was inserted into the copies I'd cut still remained in the image folder which made the file grow in size quite a bit (27 mb).
The flightcrew check should have yellow flagged the extra image file as 'Unused'
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