Re: [docbook-apps] EPUB3: how to use base.dir ?

[Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com>]

On 24 Apr 2013, at 05:17, Carlos Araya <carlos.araya@gmail.com> wrote:

> Bob,
> 
> The latest snapshot, downloaded tonight I get the same validation error. 
> 
> epub-check:
>      [java] ERROR: docbook-howto.epub: Length of the first filename in archive must be 8, but was 13


It sounds like something has gone wrong with the zip file creation.

The first filename in the zip file is required to be called "mimetype" and it must contain the characters "application/epub+zip". I don't think that's changed between epub 2 to epub 3.

Chris