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Can't center images

I'm constantly having problems where images in epub files claim to be centred in the file, but don't display as centred on my Kobo (or in Adobe Digital Editions). Example attached. What am I missing?...

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What can invisibly cause a pagebreak?

I have an epub file and can't figure out what's causing a pagebreak. Code: <p class="noindent2">In the dungeons, the Queen sat in near perfect darkness. She had one window, high in the wall of...

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Having a Hard Time with a NAV TOC in an ePub Export

Hi everyone! I'm relatively new to ePub-making so I'm sorry if this seems basic to you -- I have a print publication built in InDesign and am exporting it (via InDesign) to an ePub. Everything is...

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Running official EPUBCheck in Browser

I’m a developer, and running EPUBCheck in the browser is something I’ve wanted to do for years. With some AI assistance, I finally had the push I needed to get it working. Actually, this is the sixth...

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Table Alternative?

I am attempting to create an ePub. I moved the text into a Word DOCX and did some formatting there, and then I converted it to an ePub in Calibre. Now, I'm making some adjustments to the bits that...

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Problem page lists in nav.xhtml file (ePub-3)

Bonjour, Je formate des documents anciens en ePub-3 et j'ai un soucis de pagination quand je regroupe plusieurs tomes. Je souhaite conserver les numéros de pages originaux mais epubcheck refuse...

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Free EPUB3-starter-kit, templates for media content and custom css

Hi, we created a free starter-kit "epubGeneric" for an EPUB3-book using under MIT-license. The package can be used as a generic starting point (template) for any new book. It can easily be cusatomized....

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epubsana — automatic repair for what epubcheck reports (not an editor)

Some of you have been putting epubveri through its paces in PeterT's thread, and nearly every false positive fixed since 0.5.15 came from that — real books finding what fixtures can't. Thank you. I'd...

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Just when you thought Vellum could not get any worse, it has.

I'm editing an eBook in Vellum. If anyone has saved searches to help make editing Vellum eBooks easier, they won't work. This is the code beween <body> and the first paragraph. As you see, there...

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Avoid pagebreaks at the end of an html section?

I have a book without any section or chapter breaks. I would like to preserve the reading experience of this kind of uninterrupted narrative, but I also know that chunky html sections in an ePub can be...

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Removing Spacing Between Paragraphs: Ignored by Kobo

After some 15+ years of self-taught epub editing, thanks almost entirely to MR, I have hit a brick wall with removal of spacing between paragraphs on one particular epub. All my usual fixes are not...

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Possible replacement for EPUBCHECK

This might be of interest to some. A new tool epubverif is under active development as an alternative to the Java based epubcheck. See https://github.com/veripublica/epubveri I've no association with...

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Hebrew Characters

Hi, This one has me stumped. A page in an ebook I am reading has a few Hebrew characters. I have a font embedded in the epub to display them (FreeSerif.otf). The epub is v3 In Calibre viewer and in the...

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Inability to Center Text in EPUBs

I recently decided to transition from making my ebooks as PDFs to making them as EPUBs. The reason I chose to use PDF before is because of the formatting control it gave me over my ebooks, and it would...

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Using regex to fix broken paragraph in Chinese

I have some thought, I need someone familiar with regex and text to see if this is doable. The logic here is simple: I am not going to be 100% correct, just to get rid of annoying breaks. Since chinses...

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How to repair broken lines?

Good morning. I have a long text to export to epub, but..unfortunately, it often starts a new paragraph in the wrong way 🥲 So, in epub I would get this: Code: <p>My sentence starts here, but it...

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PDF to EPUB

Hi This question has probably already been asked and answered, but I couldn't find it. How do I convert PDF books to EPUB without ending up with a garbled and unreadable file? Thanks in advance Regards

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Scalable title text that works for all e-readers

As a small publisher, I'm looking for a way to scale my epub title so that it fits e.g., 80% of the screen, regardless of window size. vw I had used vw, and Google suggested clamp (e.g., below), but...

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Adobe Digital Editions for Macintosh

I received notice on my M3 Macbook Air today that Adobe Digital Editions 4.5 in an Intel app and won't be supported in the next version of MacOS, starting no doubt in September. Is there any word of a...

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image display

Hello, I created an e-book in EPUB format using Calibre from a .docx file. I've noticed that the images aren't displaying properly. They're not centered, are incomplete, or are even oriented...

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