Hey, kids:
This is a quickie. I am pulling my hair out about a client and his book. We did his book, a fiction/memoir type thing, and provided them to the client for review. My first hint that things were going askew were somewhat typical emails "can't download the file," "can't view the file," etc. Typical, "didn't bother to read the freaking instructions" stuff.
But then, he said it was being blocked from publishing at NookPress. Said it was failing intake. :chinscratch: I put it through both our own ePUBcheck here, and did it again online at the IDPF to takea screenshot and send to him. THEN, he says it's failing at SW, too, for the "premium catalog." :smack: (That's a migraine, not a headslap, just soo's ya know.)
Finally, I email the poor guy at SW with whom I've been chatting lately. He says "well, you could HARDLY expect it to pass, could you?" NOW, I'm worried. I ask him to send it to me, and he does--and I have NO idea where the hell this file came from. It's full of classes, styles, and a stylesheet that bear NO resemblance to what we do. I don't mean, hey, it's off a little; I mean, hey, it's off a BLOODY LOT.
The CSS is a disaster. Looks like that single-line, unreadable stuff that you can see in Pages output. ("We don't need no stinking returns and indented lines!") The internal file names are all changed. The NCX shows the screwed up internal filenames coupled to the original NCX titles (chapter titles).
There's NOTHING in the OPF or NCX or anything else that makes me say, "oh! It's <insert book-making software here>." Nothing.
The only hint I have is, all the Style classes start with .cs, followed by what appear to be random jumbles of letters/numbers. The font COLOR is declared for everything, and set in pts.
Has anyone seen this, in their travels? When cleaning something up? Wolfie? You're a determined cleaner, have you seen these classes before? *Everything* starts with .cs .
The client keeps INSISTING that this is the file that he downloaded from us, firstly, and worse, our bloody credit line is on the copyright page, for all to see. And before you think I'm being a drama queen, the book is literally unreadable. Each chapter displays part of the first section, breaks off mid-sentence, and then, the remainder of the text for that XHTML file disappears. To the naked eye, some of the "chapters" have half a paragraph.
Before I go bald--anyone got a clue?
Hitch
This is a quickie. I am pulling my hair out about a client and his book. We did his book, a fiction/memoir type thing, and provided them to the client for review. My first hint that things were going askew were somewhat typical emails "can't download the file," "can't view the file," etc. Typical, "didn't bother to read the freaking instructions" stuff.
But then, he said it was being blocked from publishing at NookPress. Said it was failing intake. :chinscratch: I put it through both our own ePUBcheck here, and did it again online at the IDPF to takea screenshot and send to him. THEN, he says it's failing at SW, too, for the "premium catalog." :smack: (That's a migraine, not a headslap, just soo's ya know.)
Finally, I email the poor guy at SW with whom I've been chatting lately. He says "well, you could HARDLY expect it to pass, could you?" NOW, I'm worried. I ask him to send it to me, and he does--and I have NO idea where the hell this file came from. It's full of classes, styles, and a stylesheet that bear NO resemblance to what we do. I don't mean, hey, it's off a little; I mean, hey, it's off a BLOODY LOT.
The CSS is a disaster. Looks like that single-line, unreadable stuff that you can see in Pages output. ("We don't need no stinking returns and indented lines!") The internal file names are all changed. The NCX shows the screwed up internal filenames coupled to the original NCX titles (chapter titles).
There's NOTHING in the OPF or NCX or anything else that makes me say, "oh! It's <insert book-making software here>." Nothing.
The only hint I have is, all the Style classes start with .cs, followed by what appear to be random jumbles of letters/numbers. The font COLOR is declared for everything, and set in pts.
Has anyone seen this, in their travels? When cleaning something up? Wolfie? You're a determined cleaner, have you seen these classes before? *Everything* starts with .cs .
The client keeps INSISTING that this is the file that he downloaded from us, firstly, and worse, our bloody credit line is on the copyright page, for all to see. And before you think I'm being a drama queen, the book is literally unreadable. Each chapter displays part of the first section, breaks off mid-sentence, and then, the remainder of the text for that XHTML file disappears. To the naked eye, some of the "chapters" have half a paragraph.
Before I go bald--anyone got a clue?
Hitch