RE: An ePub editor

Good on yer, Lee!

I spent years as a manager of software QA departments for a few software development houses. You've bitten off a large chunk with this one, but you seem to know what you're doing.

Gary Showalter

www.garyshowalter.com
http://garysduckinn.blogspot.com/


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Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:59:16 -0600
Subject: [ebook-community] An ePub editor


















 



  


    
      
      
      For slightly over the past year I've been working on a program that can 

be used to compile all the parts of an ePub file. I've finally gotten to 

the point where I'm willing to let other people see what I have created. 

On Oct 7, 2011 I registered the project "ePubEditor" with 

SourceForge.net, and uploaded all my code there 

(http://epubeditor.sourceforge.net/).



ePubEditor allows a person to create a new electronic publication, then 

add HTML, JPEG, and other OEB "core" media type files to the ePub's 

manifest. Once "manifested," these files can be added to the reading 

order of the publication (the content, or "spine") where the content can 

be reordered. Metadata such as author identities and subject matter 

identifiers can be added, and the compiled document can be saved as an ePub.



ePubEditor includes some minimal editing functions, such as the ability 

to globally replace one HTML element with another, or insert new HTML 

elements. It also can trigger a "clean" function, that runs XSL 

transformation scripts against the entire publication content; the XSL 

files themselves are named after the publication publishers, and can be 

added and edited by the user. ePubEditor can build an HTML Table of 

Contents according to user-specified HTML elements, and can generate an 

ePub 2.x .ncx file based upon an HTML Table of Contents.



ePubEditor can generate a report of all styles used in a publication, 

excluding those set in the ursers own CSS file, and can also invoke the 

epubchecker program to check the ePub before it is generated.



From the Manifest view large HTML files can be split into multiple 

parts, and external editors can be invoked to edit any file in the 

manifest.



ePubEditor is a Java "Swing" application, which means you must have the 

Java Runtime Environment version 1.5 or greater installed on your 

computer before it will run. It is officially classified as "pre-alpha" 

on the SourceForge web site, but that classification is probably 

generous. It /will/ run, but there is no guarantee that it will not 

crash. At the time of this writing, it is totally undocumented.



Everyone is welcome to download and try the program. I will try to be 

responsive to questions so long as they are asked in a public forum such 

as this one. Feel free to enter bugs and RFEs at the SourceForge web 

site. I would welcome any help with the project, especially someone who 

might be willing to write some documentation.





    
     

    
    






   		 	   		  

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