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RE: [docbook-apps] Epub3 - Use of Ant's zip task - ensuring file order follows the rules

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RE: [docbook-apps] Epub3 - Use of Ant's zip task - ensuring file order follows the rules
Tony (and Morten),

 

Thanks for this.  

I can now generate my epub from Ant.

 

 

Regards,

Richard.

 

 

 

 

Richard Kerry

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From: Tony Graham []

Sent: 14 June 2013 11:09

To: DocBook Apps Mailing List ý[]ý

Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Epub3 - Use of Ant's zip task - ensuring file order follows the rules

On Fri, June 14, 2013 11:00 am, Kerry, Richard wrote:

> Does anyone have experience of building epub3 from Docbook using Ant ?

>

> In particular the use of Ant's zip task.

>

> One of the rules for epub3 is that the mimetype file comes first.  It

> appears that this can't be enforced using Ant's zip task.  Does anyone

> know if there is any way of making this work ?  Or do I need to call out

> to an external application ?  (ie infozip's zip.exe.  7-zip doesn't appear

> to do it either).

Zip the mimetype file uncompressed, then add the other files to the Zip

file.  See 
http://inasmuch.as/2010/12/10/ant-for-epub/

Regards,

Tony Graham                                   

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