Tue May 06, 2014 6:09 pm Post
Fri May 09, 2014 3:55 am Post
Fri May 09, 2014 4:12 pm Post
MimeticMouton wrote:It looks like you've got some images in your compiling documents that have invalid characters in their names, which is causing a problem during the conversion (and will cause a problem for the EPUB when you try to open it, too, though it doesn't give a warning during compile). There's a bug in 1.7.0.5, maybe in a few earlier betas too, where images included in imported Word documents ended up with invalid names, and an earlier bug, since fixed in the public betas I believe, where linked images would revert to an invalid name when the project was closed and reopened.
You can edit the image names in your project by right-clicking the image and choosing "Edit Image", then giving it a new name. In 1.7.0.5 your new name should stick, but let us know if you have a case where it doesn't.
Mon May 12, 2014 8:58 pm Post
Mon May 12, 2014 9:03 pm Post
MimeticMouton wrote:Hm, no, I really meant that if you had images inserted inline in your text documents, you'd want to check the image names on those. It sounds like that's not the problem, if you've only got a cover image. If you compile to EPUB and then run a validation on that (in Sigil or via EPUB Validator), do you get any warnings or errors?
Mon May 12, 2014 9:24 pm Post
Mon May 12, 2014 9:33 pm Post
MimeticMouton wrote:Glad you're enjoying the custom meta-data!
Okay, so the warning report you're seeing is specifically created by KindleGen during the conversion process from EPUB--basically, Scrivener creates an EPUB in your Temp folder and then feeds it to KindleGen to create the .mobi at the location you chose; the temp EPUB file is then deleted. Could you try recreating the process by compiling to EPUB from Scrivener, and then opening that EPUB file in Kindle Previewer? Previewer will convert it to .mobi via its own copy of KindleGen and will give you the option of viewing the full log of any errors and warnings, so we can see if that hits the same problem and offers any more specifics.
Fri May 16, 2014 6:23 pm Post
MimeticMouton wrote:Thanks for this. Do you happen to have a sample project that produces the error, maybe a stripped-down version of your main project? I'd really like to get to the bottom of it, but the KindleGen warning alone isn't much to go on.
Fri May 16, 2014 6:57 pm Post
MimeticMouton wrote:Thanks for this. Do you happen to have a sample project that produces the error, maybe a stripped-down version of your main project? I'd really like to get to the bottom of it, but the KindleGen warning alone isn't much to go on.
Fri May 16, 2014 9:05 pm Post
Fri May 16, 2014 9:17 pm Post
MimeticMouton wrote:The problem is probably with a setting in a particular file in combination with the whole...e.g. there's a bug where images in documents before a page break (anywhere before a page break) do not compile correctly to epub/mobi, though images *after* the final page break are fine, and any images used both before and after will be fine (since the last one is fine, and they all link to the same exported image file on compile). So any individual file in this case is fine, and if there aren't page breaks set they're fine, and if all the images happen to occur after the page break, they're fine...
Mainly I was hoping to get a sample project that I could poke at with a stick for a while to figure out which pieces are playing badly together.
Fri May 16, 2014 9:23 pm Post
Fri May 16, 2014 9:25 pm Post
MimeticMouton wrote:Dropbox wouldn't be an issue. I don't know that the images are actually involved in this case either--that was my original supposition just based on it being a media error and the characters in the filename, which looked like the old bug I mentioned in that earlier post. My example just now about the images and page breaks was just by way of demonstrating how all the different pieces work together to trigger a bug, not because I thought it was the problem you're seeing.
Well, if it comes up again, we'll see if we can find any common factors to narrow the field.
Sat May 17, 2014 7:32 am Post
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