Interesting Characters in ePub Conversion

So does anybody ever get the following style characters at seemingly random times: â€�? I am working in CS4 and will break the various chapters of books up, and to the best of my knowledge, have all the formatting correct prior to converting into ePub. However, at weird chapters the above occurs in lieu of quotes, dashes or other similar punctuation. It seems random (one book of 7 chapters had it is Chap 3, while a book of 31 chaps has it in 2, 9, 13, 14, 21 and 22). Thanks!

It has happened to me often, and despite trying very hard I haven't been able to track the reason why. Copying the text to a brand new document and exporting the epub from there has always worked to fix it though.

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I have included (.m4v) videos in my Pages document and then converted to EPUB. These show up fine when I load the epub directly to the iPad.
However when I try and upload to the Apple iBookstore I am told the videos are in .mov format which the iBookstore doesn't want.
Sure enough when I look at the epub files (in Sigil) the videos are all described as .mov. Even editing the files in Sigil then has no effect.
Anyone know why Pages to Epub conversion puts the videos back into ".mov" format rather than leave them as ".m4v"? The videos were created in iMovie and exported as iphone .m4v files.

This is what Pages User Guides says:
Pages accepts any QuickTime or iTunes file type, including the following:
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AAC
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I am having an issue with one chapter of a book that I am converting to epub, all other chapters convert fine. Files are being imported from a Word file into InDesign, formatted and converted to .epub. Here is the issue I am having"
The Hebrews used this practice as well in centuries to come. They worshipped at “high places” prior to the construction of the Temple. The Temple itself was erected on a high mountain in its region.
is showing up like this in the epub file:
The Hebrews used this practice as well in centuries to come. They worshipped at â€œhigh placesâ€� prior to the construction of the Temple. The Temple itself was erected on a high mountain in its region.
notice the symbols instead of quotes. That is happening for every quotation or apostrophe in the chapter.

Unless you've encountered a bug in InDesign, if the characters show up the same on the screen, they should be exporting the same.
It does seem likely you've encountered a bug, but I think it's a lot more likely the bug is in the EPUB export code, which is new and rather fragile, to the point where it's been completely rewritten for CS5.5, I seem to recall hearing.
But OK, let's do some tests.
For one thing, highlight the characters in question in InDesign and check the Info panel -- are they the same unicode value?
Next, let's find hte smallest reproducible test case that causes this.
So, working with a copy of your document/book, first try combining two chapters into a single INDD file and seeing if you can reproduce the problem.
If not, next make a book with only two INDD files and make the problem happen.
Then delete as much as you can of the surrounding text until you can still make the problem happen.
Then report back.
If you can share such a file, we can probably figure it out.
As noted above, the EPUB export code is fragile. That's because Adobe used it as an example of how components of InDesign can be written in JavaScript rather than in C++, as a guide for how to extend InDesign. One advantage of that is the epub javascript source code is available (in the indesign sdk), so if we're feeling sufficiently enthusiastic, we can inspect the source code, modify it add instrumentation to tell us what is going on, and perhaps even fix the problem in there.
I'm not that enthusiastic, but I'll willing to at least look at it if all else fails. I gather you've got a deadline?

Pages to Epub Conversion Problem

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Does iBooks Author convert to ePub ?
Or is this ePub format not required when using iBooks Author?

Hello Niki,
It's all seems a bit confusing doesn't it? Here's my explanation ... Historically, to add a book to the Apple iBookstore, the file needed to be in epub format and pass a valadition check. So, we all learned how to do that. Now, Apple has added a new format, .ibook. To make books in this format all you do is create a book using iBook Author. There is no need to convert ibooks made in iBooks Author into epub. They meet Apple's specifications. In fact, ibook is a type of epub.
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Clear as mud?
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Missing characters after PDF conversion CS 6

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I've moved your question to the InDesign forum.
What version of InDesign? What computer platform? Which PDF preset was used for creating the PDF file?
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Arabic Character set conversion-help needed

We have our main database running in 10g (Solaris o/s) & planning to move these to RAC 11g.
One of our old oracle DB(8.0.5)/solaris, which is not used till recently need to upgrade to 10g Rel2.
I know Supported direct upgrade 8.0.6/8.1.7/9i -> 10g
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OR
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please advice
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(1) At source db 8.0.5 (solaris)
PARAMETER VALUE
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NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-YY
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
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NLS_SORT BINARY
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PARAMETER VALUE
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CALENDAR GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT DD-MON-RRRR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_CHARACTERSET AR8ISO8859P6
NLS_SORT BINARY
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Parameter Value
CSSCAN Version v2.1
Instance Name MIG1
Database Version 10.2.0.1.0
Scan type Full database
Scan CHAR data? YES
Database character set AR8ISO8859P6
FROMCHAR AR8ISO8859P6
TOCHAR AR8ISO8859P6
Scan NCHAR data? NO
Array fetch buffer size 100000
Number of processes 2
Capture convertible data? YES
[Scan Summary]
Some character type data in the data dictionary are not convertible to the new
haracter set Some character type application data are not convertible to the new characters
[Data Dictionary Conversion Summary]
Datatype Changeless Convertible Truncation Lossy
VARCHAR2 2,235,403 0 0 *1,492*
CHAR 1,097 0 0 0
LONG 155,188 0 0 6
CLOB 24,643 0 0 0
VARRAY 21,352 0 0 0
Total 2,437,683 0 0 1,498
Total in percentage 99.939% 0.000% 0.000% 0.061%
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[Application Data Conversion Summary]
Datatype Changeless Convertible Truncation Lossy
VARCHAR2 16,986,594 0 0 *1,240,383*
CHAR 164,114 0 0 0
LONG 7 0 0 0
CLOB 1 0 0 0
VARRAY 1,436 0 0 0
Total in percentage 93.256% 0.000% 0.000%
6.744%
[Distribution of Convertible, Truncated and Lossy Data by Table]
USER.TABLE Convertible Truncation Lossy
PROFINAL.BASE_MASTER_DATAS 0 0 *362,003*
PROFINAL.CODE_ALLOW 0 0 *53*
PROFINAL.CODE_ALLOWANCE_TYPES 0 0 *1*
PROFINAL.CODE_BONUS_TYPES 0 0 *2*
PROFINAL.CODE_BRANCHES 0 0 *2*
PROFINAL.CODE_CERTIFICATES 0 0 *94*
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So its replacing initial few characters during the conversion process.
Like this, I am expected to collect possible scenarios and
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Rahul,
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Query on Data Conversion

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We are trying to build a generic tool which could help the conversion process in data migration.
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So its replacing initial few characters during the conversion process.
Like this, I am expected to collect possible scenarios and
develop a generic tool, which can cover some possible conversion conditions.
Can you please help me with such scenarios, which you may have come across in project needs.
Thank you.
Meenakshi

The easiest would be to create a mapping table which holds the legacy value and the SAP value
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You also need to think about error handling, what happens if no mapping value can be found, how would it be reported back to the user, etc.
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Add / Save paragraph and characters styles in PDF

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Illegal characters in SOAP message

Hi
I consistently get the following in the server log (I'm using JAX-WS 2.1):
Couldn't create SOAP message due to exception: XML reader error: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
com.sun.xml.ws.protocol.soap.MessageCreationException: Couldn't create SOAP message due to exception: XML reader error: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.SOAPBindingCodec.decode(SOAPBindingCodec.java:292)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.decodePacket(HttpAdapter.java:276)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.access$500(HttpAdapter.java:93)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter$HttpToolkit.handle(HttpAdapter.java:432)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.handle(HttpAdapter.java:244)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.ServletAdapter.handle(ServletAdapter.java:135)
at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.JAXWSServlet.doPost(JAXWSServlet.java:176)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:738)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:831)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.servletService(ApplicationFilterChain.java:411)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:317)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:198)
Caused by: com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderException: XML reader error: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.wrapException(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:267)
at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.next(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:95)
at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.nextContent(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:110)
at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.nextElementContent(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:100)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.StreamSOAPCodec.decode(StreamSOAPCodec.java:174)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.StreamSOAPCodec.decode(StreamSOAPCodec.java:296)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.StreamSOAPCodec.decode(StreamSOAPCodec.java:128)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.SOAPBindingCodec.decode(SOAPBindingCodec.java:287)
... 52 more
Is there any way to avoid having to parse illegal characters in the HTTP SOAP request? E.g. by stripping off BOM (byte order mark) characters prior to conversion to SOAP?
Help much appreciated,
Lance

Hi lance,
Hi
I consistently get the following in the server log (I'm using JAX-WS 2.1):
Couldn't create SOAP message due to exception: XML reader error: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
com.sun.xml.ws.protocol.soap.MessageCreationException: Couldn't create SOAP message due to exception: XML reader error: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.SOAPBindingCodec.decode(SOAPBindingCodec.java:292)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.decodePacket(HttpAdapter.java:276)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.access$500(HttpAdapter.java:93)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter$HttpToolkit.handle(HttpAdapter.java:432)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.HttpAdapter.handle(HttpAdapter.java:244)
at com.sun.xml.ws.transport.http.servlet.ServletAdapter.handle(ServletAdapter.java:135)
at com.sun.enterprise.webservice.JAXWSServlet.doPost(JAXWSServlet.java:176)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:738)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:831)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.servletService(ApplicationFilterChain.java:411)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:317)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:198)
Caused by: com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderException: XML reader error: javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException: ParseError at [row,col]:[1,1]
Message: Content is not allowed in prolog.
at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.wrapException(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:267)
at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.next(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:95)
at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.nextContent(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:110)
at com.sun.xml.ws.streaming.XMLStreamReaderUtil.nextElementContent(XMLStreamReaderUtil.java:100)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.StreamSOAPCodec.decode(StreamSOAPCodec.java:174)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.StreamSOAPCodec.decode(StreamSOAPCodec.java:296)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.StreamSOAPCodec.decode(StreamSOAPCodec.java:128)
at com.sun.xml.ws.encoding.SOAPBindingCodec.decode(SOAPBindingCodec.java:287)
... 52 more
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seems trivial !!
the same msg comes up for various issues related to SOAP requests...
Is there any way to avoid having to parse illegal characters in the HTTP SOAP request? E.g. by stripping off BOM (byte order mark) characters prior to conversion to SOAP?
Not sure if there is ?
You have to ensure no illegal characters exists in the SOAP request (Rather than looking for a work around) ; )
Help much appreciated,
Lance

Preserve "exactly" line spacing in epub output.

In my Pages document, there are many inline equations (from Mathtype). I like having the line spacing set to "exactly" so the line spacing remains constant, even between lines with equations that 'overlap' the lines around it.
Is there a way to preserve this option when I export my Pages document to Epub? Right now, the line spacing is single-spaced in the Epub output.

In my Pages document, there are many inline equations (from Mathtype). I like having the line spacing set to "exactly" so the line spacing remains constant, even between lines with equations that 'overlap' the lines around it. Is there a way to preserve this option when I export my Pages document to Epub? Right now, the line spacing is single-spaced in the Epub output.
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/hh
http://www.idpf.org/doclibrary/epub/OPS_2.0.1draft.htm
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