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Anonymous
October 10, 2012
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Epub output contains unsupported attributes - cannot be uploaded to Google

  • October 10, 2012
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Hi all,

my Epub files that are generated with RH10 cannot be uploaded to Google because of problems in the OPF file. Particularly it contains the property "scripted" for all htm files and this is not accepted during upload.

I downloaded the current version of Epubcheck and have activated that option in the Epub SSL. However, this check does not reveal any problems.Actually it does not do anything, no log is produced and no error/success message displayd.

1. How is this Epubcheck intended to work, I thought it should detect such problems?

2. I can of course manually remove properties in the OPF that cause problems. Has anybody found a solution to permanently correct the internal templates that Robohelp uses to build the Epub output?

Robert

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    Willam van Weelden
    Willam van Weelden
    Inspiring
    October 10, 2012

    Hi,

    Which method do you use to create the ePub? The new SSL or the 'old school' ePub script which is also provided with RoboHelp 10? The SSL creates ePub 3.0, while the script creates ePub 2.1.

    Greet,

    Willam

    Anonymous
    October 10, 2012

    Hi, the SSL and I have activated the option to use the Epubchecker which

    I have downloaded.

    Robert

    Willam van Weelden
    Willam van Weelden
    Inspiring
    October 10, 2012

    My bad, I read your initial post a little too hastily.

    The epubcheck tool checks against the specification but it is possible that Google (books/play?) does not support those specs yet. ePub 3 is still a work in progress.

    Does your ePub also include DHTML effects such as dropdowns? I think it does according to the scripting reference. As far as I could find, Google does not support ePub with JavaScript: <http://www.bisg.org/what-we-do-16-152-epub-3-support-grid.php> http://www.bisg.org/what-we-do-16-152-epub-3-support-grid.php What happens if you exlude such content using condional tags?

    As for epubcheck not doing anything at all, I’ve never used it offline. Do you get any errors when you validate the ePub using the online validator? <http://validator.idpf.org/> http://validator.idpf.org/

    Greet,

    Willam

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