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@ 2010-11-09 07:46 am UTC
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jumpuphigh: Pigeon with text "jumpuphigh" (pigeon)

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?


[personal profile] jumpuphigh
2010-12-13 07:46 pm UTC (link)
It doesn't but the epub directly created through AO3 doesn't have the dragon in it either so if that is the cause, what we see as a reader doesn't change but something in the code originally created is broken.

Correction: It doesn't show when I view the original in ADE but it does with calibre. But the converted one doesn't have the dragons in the calibre viewer either.

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elf: Quote: She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain (Fond of Books)

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?


[personal profile] elf
2010-12-13 09:11 pm UTC (link)
Can you take apart the HTML and see what the differences are? (I am css-clueless; If I had both versions, I could list the differences but not understand them.)

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jumpuphigh: Pigeon with text "jumpuphigh" (pigeon)

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?


[personal profile] jumpuphigh
2010-12-13 09:16 pm UTC (link)
I have not a clue how to do that.

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elf: Quote: She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain (Fond of Books)

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?


[personal profile] elf
2010-12-13 09:39 pm UTC (link)
Epubs are zip files in funny packaging!

Rename booktitle.epub to booktitle.zip, unzip, and look at structure.

Some of the MR crowd hand-codes their ebooks. I have no idea how; every time I've tried to edit something in the unzipped version and then rezip, the resulting epub doesn't work. I don't know enough xml/css to have any idea what I'm doing wrong.

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jumpuphigh: Pigeon with text "jumpuphigh" (pigeon)

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?


[personal profile] jumpuphigh
2010-12-13 10:27 pm UTC (link)
The AO3 has the following CSS code?/commands? which the calibre file does not have:

calibre6 {
height: auto;
width: auto
}

Also, cool!

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elf: Quote: She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain (Fond of Books)

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?


[personal profile] elf
2010-12-13 10:37 pm UTC (link)
That shouldn't be it at all; something inside the HTML is probably different.

And is waycool, and why epub is likely to be the dominant ebook format eventually: because really, anyone can make them with a text editor. (And code knowledge. Not even lots of code knowledge, just a bit more than I have.) And because if they're not DRM'd, anyone who knows CSS and a tiny bit of XML can fix them if they're broken.

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jumpuphigh: Pigeon with text "jumpuphigh" (pigeon)

Re: AO3 bug with epub files?


[personal profile] jumpuphigh
2010-12-13 10:47 pm UTC (link)
Why don't I email you the zipped files and you can take a look? That is the only difference I found but I'm not experienced here at all.

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Re: AO3 bug with epub files?


[personal profile] elf
2010-12-13 10:49 pm UTC (link)
Sure! elf @ dreamwidth.org works; I'll see if I notice any differences.

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