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Old 04-26-2011, 10:59 AM   #1
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Cover for In Design EPUB

I'm working on a book in Adobe In Design, consisting of about 20 separate chapter files. ID creates an epub, but it doesn't include a cover. I've got the cover jpeg created (600x800) and I want to add it, and I'm doing it as instructed here: http://code.google.com/p/sigil/wiki/BasicTutorial

This works fine in version .0.3.4, but I need to use the Release Candidate (.0.4.0) because it preserves the elaborate TOC that In Design creates.

When I perform that procedure in 0.4.0 the book won't open in Adobe Digital Editions. When I do it in 0.3.4, it will. Same procedure, keystroke for keystroke: open file, place cursor at head of first chapter, Insert Image, Insert Chapter. Save. Open in Digital Editions.

Anybody have any ideas why that might be?

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Old 04-26-2011, 11:15 AM   #2
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Sigil 0.4.0RC1 seems to corrupt the content.opf file under certain conditions. Does your finished epub pass FlightCrew checks?

See this thread:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=126369
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Old 04-26-2011, 12:52 PM   #3
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Good idea, thanks.

If I edit the file in Sigil 3.4, it validates, but tells me that the file refers to some fonts that it doesn't embed. That's expected. I get the same message before and after adding a cover.

But with 4.0RC I get some new messages.

I've attached a screenshot. Hopefully that'll come through. The first five errors appear with both versions. The last four only appear with version 4.

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I do not know that this is your issue, but I wanted to give you a heads up. I'm nearly finished converting a dozen books from Indesign, and in doing so, discovered a mistake in the tutorial you linked to that cost me half a days work sorting out.

My original post is here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho....php?p=1511554

Summary: If you follow the tutorial's directions in adding the cover, you can accidentally mess up your headers (the new cover page will 'steal' the title of the first page) and this will break multiple ereaders including kindle -- the first page will no longer display and the TOC will have errors.
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That is certainly related to the problem, thanks.

But following the procedure there, doesn't solve it. If I do this:
After inserting the image, press ENTER to create a paragraph break between the image and the text. With the cursor on the right-hand side of the image use the Insert -> Chapter Break command from the menu bar (or press CTRL-ENTER)."
Then save, then try to open the book with Adobe Digital Editions, it won't open.

This is with Sigil 4. With version 3, all is well. But I need 4 because it preserves the TOC.

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That is certainly related to the problem, thanks.

But following the procedure there, doesn't solve it. If I do this:
After inserting the image, press ENTER to create a paragraph break between the image and the text. With the cursor on the right-hand side of the image use the Insert -> Chapter Break command from the menu bar (or press CTRL-ENTER)."
Then save, then try to open the book with Adobe Digital Editions, it won't open.

This is with Sigil 4. With version 3, all is well. But I need 4 because it preserves the TOC.

Steve
Actually, yep, that solution doesn't solve it either. I've played around with it and found no way to add the image then split w/o it breaking -- so you need to fix it. To do that, after you split the file, you need to go to code view and cut the 'stolen' header line out of the cover file, and put it in the second file (old first page) in the same place.

this is mine, yours will be some variant:
<h2 id="heading_id_2" title="Title Page"></h2>
(note that this is set up to put "Title Page" in the TOC w/o it showing up on the page itself.)

My long term solution skips the tutorial technique altogether. After converting from Indesign to epub, i now just run a bunch of regex search/replaces that mark up all chapter heads with sigil breaks -- the indesign doc is prepped so that even the title page has a 'chapter head'. Because the first page has a chapter head, and then gets a chapter split marker, when i do the split i end up with a 'blank' file at the beginning. I add the cover to that and avoid this problem altogether.

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Old 04-27-2011, 11:30 AM   #7
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Well, er, that sounds like what I want to do. I can do the search/replace and I understand the structure of an epub. But I couldn't follow all that. If you could be more specific, it would be great.

All I want to do is add a cover to the In Design epub. How could it be so hard?

Is there a sample somewhere of proper XML for the cover?

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Well, er, that sounds like what I want to do. I can do the search/replace and I understand the structure of an epub. But I couldn't follow all that. If you could be more specific, it would be great.

All I want to do is add a cover to the In Design epub. How could it be so hard?

Is there a sample somewhere of proper XML for the cover?

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I'm not sure if you're asking for instructions on the quick way or the long term way.

If it's the quick way, add the image, then split the file just like the tutorial says. Then go into the cover file in Sigil, look to see if it 'stole' the header file, and if so, copy and paste it back to the file you split the cover from.

Ultimately, your code will look something like this:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
  "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title>The Name of my Book</title>
  <link href="../Styles/template.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
</head>

<body style="">
  <div id="the-name-of-my-book">
    <div class="story">
      <p class="generated-style"><img alt="" src="../Images/cover.jpg" /></p>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

However, if you simply follow the tutorial, as previously mentioned, you'll likely have an extra header line in the body that you need to cut and paste into the file you split from.
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Thanks for sticking with this.

Keep in mind that it's a multi-chapter book. Shouldn't the cover be referenced by it's own separate text file?

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Thanks for sticking with this.

Keep in mind that it's a multi-chapter book. Shouldn't the cover be referenced by it's own separate text file?

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Does not have to.
It does need an Anchor point if it is not a separate file (implied anchor at the start)
I prefer a file per book section.
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Old 04-29-2011, 12:52 PM   #12
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Okay, thanks.
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Thanks for sticking with this.

Keep in mind that it's a multi-chapter book. Shouldn't the cover be referenced by it's own separate text file?

Steve
That's definitely how I do it. The first file is just bare bones html housing the single image. Both file and image are marked as Cover via Sigil's 'add semantics' option.
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