Epubcheck Report Questions

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Epub 2 supports SVG just fine. ePub 2 is currently supported by more devices/apps, so you need to decide what market you are trying to target. More and more devices are starting to support ePub 3, and they can easily be made backwards compatible so those ePub 2 devices will read them. IIRC Sigil automagically creates the proper files for backwards compatibility??? So...there are fewer and fewer valid reasons to not publish in ePub 3... FWIW

Cheers,

There is one major reason not to use ePub 3. The OP doesn't know ePub well enough to use ePub 3 and that possibly includes making it backwards compatible. Going ePub 2 is going to be easier for a novice. TBH, there's no reason to use ePub 3 unless you are using some ePub 3 specific feature that you the book requires.

Cyberseeker since you are still learning, go with ePub 2. It's just going to make your life that much easier.

[Cyberseeker]

Im making good progress through these.

1. Width Value

2. SVG Images

Here is my next error question. Several pages give me the following error message, but Im not sure what to do because the line number says "N/A"

3. OPF Error

ERROR(OPF-014):  The property 'svg' should be declared in the OPF file.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Cyberseeker

ERROR(OPF-014):  The property 'svg' should be declared in the OPF file.

In Epub3, if you want it to validate with epubcheck, any html file which contains an <svg> tag needs to be declared in the OPF manifest e.g.

<manifest>
    ... ...
    <item href="text/fullpage_map.xhtml" id="map" media-type="application/xhtml+xml" properties="svg"/>
    ... ...
</manifest>

[Turtle91]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There is one major reason not to use ePub 3. The OP doesn't know ePub well enough to use ePub 3 and that possibly includes making it backwards compatible. Going ePub 2 is going to be easier for a novice. TBH, there's no reason to use ePub 3 unless you are using some ePub 3 specific feature that you the book requires.

Cyberseeker since you are still learning, go with ePub 2. It's just going to make your life that much easier.

Possibly, but after researching this for about 15 seconds, I don't see how making it ePub3 is any more difficult than ePub2??

With Sigil you can either start a new file as an ePub3...in which case Sigil does everything for you - including requiring the .ncx for backwards compatibility (as of .9.8)

OR

You can create a fully compliant ePub2 and then use the ePub3-itizer plugin that does everything for you.

So. If I was a newb and I was going to spend my time learning ePub, I would prefer to spend it learning the latest and greatest version. But then I don't mind learning new stuff or new ways to do things....

[KevinH]

fwiw - Sigil has an epub3 manifest properties, that will search all html files and properly set the manifest properties.

[Cyberseeker]

Originally Posted by KevinH

fwiw - Sigil has an epub3 manifest properties, that will search all html files and properly set the manifest properties.

That was manifestly good. Tools> Epub3 Tools> Update Manifest Properties

All my errors are now fixed except one, and I think I have to redraw that image. Will get back here if necessary. Thanks for all the help.

[Hitch]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There is one major reason not to use ePub 3. The OP doesn't know ePub well enough to use ePub 3 and that possibly includes making it backwards compatible. Going ePub 2 is going to be easier for a novice. TBH, there's no reason to use ePub 3 unless you are using some ePub 3 specific feature that you the book requires.

Cyberseeker since you are still learning, go with ePub 2. It's just going to make your life that much easier.

Down, Wolfie! Down! Bad dog!

Sweetie, you gotta stop that. They're going to do what they're going to do, and you're just working yourself up into a lather over nothing. If he goes forth to publish, and ePUB3.0 crashes and burns, he'll be back here, and then you get to say "I told you so," which is your fave, anyway. Just...breathe in, breathe out, my friend. I say this to save you aggro, becuz, you know I love ya.

Hitch