Which EPUB readers do you think would perform the best in the W3C's EPUB Tests?
EPUB 3.4 Tests: https://w3c.github.io/epub-tests/ Not a lot of people or developers do these tests. Even in 3.3, it was only a few developers who submitted them. And pretty much all of them had many...
View ArticleEmbedded Fonts: Keep or Remove?
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I'm wondering if there's any kind of consensus on keeping or removing embedded fonts in fiction books. I've always had Calibre strip out any...
View ArticleIf you were designing EPUB today, what would you change?
In the epublift thread, KevinH asked why WebP and why not just zip -9, and JSWolf argued that everything should be left as it is. They made me want to ask a bigger question, and not about any tool: If...
View Articleepublift EPUB toolbox: modernise, shrink, kepub, validate, repair, archive
Some of you have been testing epubveri and epubsana in their threads here for the last three months. I never said where they came from, so here it is. epublift came first. I started it before either of...
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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?...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleHaving 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...
View ArticleRunning official EPUBCheck in Browser
Im a developer, and running EPUBCheck in the browser is something Ive 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...
View ArticleTable 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...
View ArticleProblem 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...
View ArticleFree 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....
View Articleepubsana 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...
View ArticleJust 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...
View ArticleAvoid 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...
View ArticleRemoving 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...
View ArticlePossible 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...
View ArticleInability 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...
View ArticleUsing 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...
View ArticleHow 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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