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Old 05-08-2013, 08:40 PM   #1
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Ebook Viewer damages epub files?
The Ebook Viewer writes a text file (META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt) into epub files but the archive appears damaged as trying to delete the file with WinZip results in a message: "Error: Unexpected end of Zip file".

The epub file was originally created using a Java program I'm creating to cleanup badly formatted epub files. I was confused as to where this bookmarks file was coming from, so I was deleting it to try and work out where it came from.

To confuse the situation, using WinZip I can extract all of the files from the modified archive without any errors.

If I delete the bookmarks file, re-archive the files with WinZip, and then view the new epub file with the Ebook Viewer I can then delete the bookmarks file without the error.

It isn't a major problem and I have no idea where the problem might lie, but I thought it was worth reporting.
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Old 05-08-2013, 09:22 PM   #2
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The Ebook Viewer writes a text file (META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt) into epub files but the archive appears damaged as trying to delete the file with WinZip results in a message: "Error: Unexpected end of Zip file".

The epub file was originally created using a Java program I'm creating to cleanup badly formatted epub files. I was confused as to where this bookmarks file was coming from, so I was deleting it to try and work out where it came from.

To confuse the situation, using WinZip I can extract all of the files from the modified archive without any errors.

If I delete the bookmarks file, re-archive the files with WinZip, and then view the new epub file with the Ebook Viewer I can then delete the bookmarks file without the error.

It isn't a major problem and I have no idea where the problem might lie, but I thought it was worth reporting.
Don't use Winzip for this. Use Tweak (Select Book, tap the T key. then explode, fix and REBUILD) that assembles the EPUB correctly
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Old 05-09-2013, 02:59 AM   #3
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The Ebook Viewer writes a text file (META-INF/calibre_bookmarks.txt) into epub files
If you like, you can turn off writing a bookmark file when exiting the viewer. Find this setting in Viewer Preferences - Misc options.

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but the archive appears damaged as trying to delete the file with WinZip results in a message: "Error: Unexpected end of Zip file"
The archive isn't damaged by calibre's viewer. Make sure the epub isn't opened by any other program when viewing.
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Old 05-09-2013, 03:11 AM   #4
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Without hijacking the thread is there a way to remove all the bookmark files from your books? Plugin?
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Without hijacking the thread is there a way to remove all the bookmark files from your books? Plugin?
You can use the Modify ePub plugin to accomplish this feat.
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Old 05-09-2013, 04:21 PM   #6
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