RE: [dita] EPUB for DITA 1.2 Spec

["Dick Hamilton" <rlhamilton@frii.com>]

That's right, just the mimetype file needs to be uncompressed

Last time I did one manually, I used the following two step sequence:

zip -0Xq epubfilename.epub mimetype
zip -qXr9D epubfilename.epub *

I forget exactly what the zip arguments do, but these do work.

This assumes you're in the directory that contains mimetype and the
OEBPS and META-INF directories (and nothing else:).

Dick
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 4:27 PM
> To: Dick Hamilton; dita
> Subject: Re: [dita] EPUB for DITA 1.2 Spec
> 
> 
> It's possible I misread the spec, but I understood it to be 
> saying that
> *nothing* in the EPUB package could be compressed.
> 
> You're saying it's only the mimetype file?
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> E.
> 
> On 8/11/10 5:25 PM, "Dick Hamilton" <rlhamilton@frii.com> wrote:
> 
> > Eliot,
> > 
> > Great news. It's impressive that you can process such a 
> large document.
> > 
> > When you have a copy posted, I'd like to try it out.
> > 
> > I am a bit confused about your comment about ZIP 
> compression. An epub
> > file is itself a zip file, and the only uncompressed part is the
> > mimetype file, so I'm not sure what you mean about epub not 
> allowing zip
> > compression.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > Dick Hamilton
> > ---------------------------------
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> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Eliot Kimber [mailto:ekimber@reallysi.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 4:01 PM
> >> To: dita
> >> Subject: [dita] EPUB for DITA 1.2 Spec
> >> 
> >> 
> >> I have successfully produced an EPUB from the current source
> >> of the 1.2 spec
> >> and loaded it on my iPad and iPhone (and of course can view
> >> it in Adobe
> >> Digital Editions. The complete spec comes in at about 64Meg
> >> (EPUB doesn't
> >> allow Zip compression, go figure).
> >> 
> >> This is using the new EPUB Toolkit plugin that I have almost
> >> 100% working.
> >> 
> >> I will be packing the plugin properly here over the next few days.
> >> 
> >> I can post the EPUB somewhere if that's appropriate, but I
> >> realize that it
> >> has no official provenance at the moment.
> >> 
> >> But I was pleased that I was able to process a pretty large doc.
> >> 
> >> The resulting EPUB passes all epubcheck validation checks
> >> except for missing
> >> resources because there are a number of unresolved links
> >> (which is probably
> >> a result of bugs in my processor related to key-based links).
> >> 
> >> It would be nice if we had a cover graphic for this beasty--is that
> >> something we can do? Does OASIS specify some sort of official
> >> cover layout?
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> 
> >> Eliot
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Eliot Kimber
> >> Senior Solutions Architect
> >> "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together"
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> >> www.rsuitecms.com
> >> 
> >> 
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