Questions tagged [epubcheck]
EpubCheck is a tool to validate EPUB files.
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The mimetype file has an extra field of length n error, while generating an ebook from command line
I'm using command line in linux to generate an ebook from a directory. I use these commands to generate:
First I add mimetype in the epub.
zip -0 mp.epub mimetype
Next I add META-INF/ and OEBPS/ ...
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Why does EPUBCheck report warnings and errors for ISO8601 date-time string?
While working on a PHP script that builds EPUB 3.0.1 content from external data, I encountered a situation where EPUBCheck complains about a valid ISO8601 date-time string in two places in the ...
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EpubCheck in Calibre gives errors with epub:type and aside
I get these two errors:
ERROR(RSC-005): Error while parsing file 'attribute "epub:type" not allowed here;
ERROR(RSC-005): Error while parsing file 'element "aside" not allowed anywhere;
How can I ...
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What tag use is expected in an ePub toc.xhtml?
I asked a similar question at What do I need my (ePub) toc.ncx to have?, but thought to create a different question about what to do for a toc.xhtml file.
The error I am getting when I try to ...
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What do I need my (ePub) toc.ncx to have?
I am trying to figure out an appropriate toc.ncx that EpubCheck will recognize as correct.
Right now I have:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ncx version="2005-1" xmlns="http://www....
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ePub validator is giving me errors. How can I address these reported errors?
I am working a "Christmas tree packet" version of a kind of (version 3.0) ePub I am working on, and I would like help understanding the results. This ePub includes images, and is available from https:/...
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CSS error in EPUB
Epubcheck reports an error for a paragraph like:
<!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/...
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The mimetype file has an extra field of length n. The use of the extra field feature of the ZIP format is not permitted for the mimetype file
I am using the C# library DotNetZip (Ionic.Zip and Ionic.Zlib) to generate an ebook from a directory. Directory looks like this:
BookName
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|___content/
| images/
| css/
| (html ...
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How can we validate an ePub3 file in Windows 8 system [duplicate]
We have validate an ePub files in the epubcheck-3.0.1 version in windows 8.1 system, and we received below error message in the epub files. could you please help for us?
ERROR: 9088098774672.epub: ...
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Can an ePub 2.0 contain multiple .opf files?
I've received an ePub with the following structure:
Abstract Container:
META-INF/
container.xml
varience.txt
OEBPS/
content.opf
Great Expectations.opf
cover.html
chapters/
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epubcheck error: mimetype entry missing or not the first in archive
I have an ePub that returns "mimetype entry missing or not the first in archive" error in epubcheck, even though the mimetype file is correctly placed.
How to fix that?
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How to run EpubCheck on Windows?
How to run EpubCheck on Windows and verify ePub erros without uploading to validator.idpf.org?
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