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" <> 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:]
>> 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
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>> "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together"
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