07-29-2010, 07:45 AM
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What have I done?!?!?!
Hi everyone,
I've done something to some of my epub files and now they wont load up on my BeBook 1 using OI firmware yet still display in Sigil and Calibre. The only thing I have done is... 1: In order to create a TOC I followed the tutorial guidelines and highlighted each chapter heading and selected "heading 1" from the drop down box. 2: Again, following the tutorial guidelines I inserted a cover image at the start of the book. All images are of the right size or slightly smaller. With one file, in order to narrow down the problem, I decided to only change the chapter heading of chapter 1 and did not change anything else at all. This epub already had a cover image and worked fine on my BeBook before changing the heading of chapter 1 to "heading 1". After making that one change it simply wouldn't display on my BeBook. Each time I tried to load it up it would go back to the directory. I know that isn't alot to go on but does anyone have any ideas what might have gone wrong. Cheers, PKFFW Last edited by PKFFW; 07-29-2010 at 07:48 AM. |
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07-29-2010, 05:10 PM
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Do the modified epubs pass epubcheck? (a web-based version is here
http://threepress.org/document/epub-validate/ if you don't have it on your computer.) Otherwise, maybe it's not the chapter headers but the "invisible hand" of HTML tidy, which is built into Sigil, and which occasionally, silently, modifies the HTML code in an unhelpful way. To test, you could try loading a "good" epub into sigil, make only some insignificant change in the text, and save it to another name. See if it still loads. If none of the above offers any clue, you may want to ask in the BeBook forum on this site. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=216 |
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07-29-2010, 06:37 PM
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Hi st_albert and thanks for the reply.
Looks like the files don't pass the check. One file came up with the same error 17 times so I assume that has something to do with the chapter heading thing going wrong as there are 17 chapters. The others came up with errors concerning the preservation of the aspect ratio of the cover picture or with "referenced resource missing in the package" when referring to the coverpage. Unfortunately I have no idea how to fix these problems. I tried simply removing the cover page altogether in those files that seemed affected only by that problem but that didn't resolve the issue. Any ideas how to fix this? Cheers, PKFFW |
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07-29-2010, 07:19 PM
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So the guru's can give it a go 
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07-29-2010, 09:48 PM
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Ok, here are the error messages on the 4 files that have mucked up. If anyone can help me out I'd appreciate it.
1: Spoiler:
2: Spoiler:
3: Spoiler:
4: Spoiler:
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07-29-2010, 10:20 PM
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but my 2 cents#2 and #4 are the same No cover file (or the filename case is wrong for case sensitive linux)#3 clear appears in all files, so it might be a incorrect background color (should be transparent) or part of a paragraph that float around an image. #1 appears that you hav an incorrect attribute setting associated with a titlepage image or it may be that you have mixed case << not sure on his one |
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07-29-2010, 10:49 PM
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I'm no guru either, but I do note that I cannot see why these errors would be caused by chapter header changes in sigil. They seem to indicate, for the most part, that something is missing from the epub package. You can (as you may know) open the epub as a zip file (rename *.epub to *.zip if necessary) and verify whether the indicated resource (namely the cover image in most cases) is really present where it says it is.
re: File number 3, with all the "attribute "clear" not allowed at this point; ignored" errors. These errors are probably not the reason why it won't open on your reader. I think the real problem is the first error listed: "unfinished element". How did you generate these epubs in the first place? Or did you download them from somewhere else? In any case, I'm getting the sense that it is not anything YOU or Sigil did wrong that is causing this. Some deeper magic must be at work. Not that I'm quite ready to absolve "tidy" just yet.  Oh, and BTW what version of sigil are you using? Hopefully the most recent, 0.2.3 Last edited by st_albert; 07-29-2010 at 10:53 PM. Reason: clarification, I hope. |
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07-29-2010, 11:38 PM
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Sigil book browser : Images should show the cover and all other images. The other day, someone had an EPUB file with the images all external (URL) to the EPUB  I would look in the CV for the img tags and the "clear" to see how they are used. And Yes!, you can make a CV mess setting headings in BV, that you can only rectify in CV. |
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07-30-2010, 04:57 AM
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Thanks guys. I think I might try it all from scratch again and see if that helps. It's got to be less prone to errors than making changes to the file after the fact.
If that doesn't work I might be back to beg and plead for one of the guru's to help me out! haha Cheers, PKFFW |
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07-31-2010, 02:14 AM
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After starting from scratch with each book I now have 4 books that display very nicely on my BeBook.
Interesting thing is all four don't pass the epub check test. Most have many of the same errors as they had before as well. To figure the problem out I eventually went to making a single change with each book, saving the file, loading it to my BeBook and seeing if it displayed. If it did I made another change and repeated and so on. There is probably a much quicker and easier way to do it!  The problem seems to be that the way I tried to change the cover image on these books was wrong. I eventually figured a way to do it for three of the books. However the technique didn't work for the fourth one. I finally just gave up and decided that book didn't need a cover! I just hope the fact that the files don't pass the epub check doesn't mean that if I ever change ereader the books are not going to display correctly on the new reader. That would be real pain in the butt. Thanks for all the suggestions and help guys. Cheers, PKFFW |
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