I am no longer using this feature at all what so ever, no need to copy me in further.
Hey, give this a try again. I’ve extended the time allowed to generate the ebooks, so it may take a bit, but it shouldn’t timeout and show you that message anymore.
Let me know if you still have any trouble!
Thanks – can you try one more time now?
It worked perfectly :))) ty so much, Matt!
Glad to help! Thank you for your patience with it!!
This works for me, too, thanks for the update! What is the advantage of this export instead of a simple PDF export? What is different when I export to .epub directly?
ePub is a reflowable text format best suited to mobile and small screens, PDF a fixed layout format.
Thanks for the quick reply. Do you know what it will do with pictures? I have the issue that my uploaded pictures are just a bit too big to fit two horizontal ones on one page in a PDF export. It works if I scale down text size by 10 degrees, but this also decreases font size, which is not what I wanted. Would pictures be scaled automatically?
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Does Write.as support PDF export? If so I’m not familiar with it and don’t know how it may handle images.
Oh, you’re right, I just print the blog page from my browser, then write.as has nothing to do with it, of course.
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Here is what I get when I try it.
There is an error with About SFSS — SFSS
I don’t know how to fix it.
Otherwise, the ebook looks great.
I have made my first try with the .epub-add-on. Looks great! Thanks a lot! But I am missing all those photos embedde to my post-articles. Any parameter to be set? I have used: https://write.as/xxx/tag:yyy.epub
Using the “fancy” editor to insert images, not markdown.
Just give https://monz.photos/tag:fotografie.epub a try, please! There are no images to be seen in the eBook. So what is going wrong?
So, I have a custom domain (https://sfss.space). For those who have one, you have to add /.epub to the original domain.
Here’s the result in my case:
https://write.as/science-fiction-short-stories/.epub
Two things:
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There are posts/chapters I want to exclude (archives section for example). I’ll do that by editing the book with Calibre, I think that will do the trick). Or better, Ill create another blog containing only the posts I want.
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I have an error messages on certain pages and I don’t understand why… If someone has an idea on how to solve it, Id be very grateful.
(“error on line 13 at column 34: attribute id redefined - below is the rendering of the page up to the first error”)
Fixed the error by going to line 13 and erasing the html tags
Are you still working on epub export, @matt ?
I found some bugs, that might benefit from your attention. 
In order to reproduce them, download https://write.as/blog/tag:Updates.epub and validate with EPUBCheck.
On my machine it resulted in 41 error messages.
Duplicate elements:
- 3x
RSC-016 Fatal Error while parsing file: Attribute "id" was already specified for element "h2".
Forbidden elements:
- 1x
CSS-001 The "unicode-bidi" property must not be included in an EPUB Style Sheet
Missing elements:
- 1x
OPF-053 Date value "" does not follow recommended syntax as per http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime:zero-length string. - 1x
RSC-005 Error while parsing file: character content of element "dc:date" invalid; must be a string with length at least 1 (actual length was 0) - 1x
RSC-005 Error while parsing file: Element "title" must not be empty.
Remote resources not properly referenced or declared:
- 5x
RSC-006 Remote resource reference is not allowed in this context; resource […] must be located in the EPUB container. - 4x
OPF-014 The property "remote-resources" should be declared in the OPF file.
Broken links:
- 18x
RSC-007 Referenced resource […] could not be found in the EPUB. - 7x
RSC-026 URL […] leaks outside the container (it is not a valid-relative-ocf-URL-with-fragment string)
From my own experiments with pandoc I’ve learned that creating a properly formatted epub has its unique challenges. It might sound trivial, but an epub is not a website. It is a self-contained entity with a peculiar structure and wrapping.
Hope this helps.
Hi @sfsspace, most of the errors that EPUBCheck reports for your EPUB are already mentioned in this post. Some of them are formal and technical details, that @matt should be able to fix quickly.
More interesting is the question, how exported epubs should handle non-text content:
a) Images that are hosted on snap.as should be included by default in the exported epub, especially if they were uploaded from the same user account as the text. I can’t think of a legal or technical reason not to do it.
b) Embedded content from other sources, like Youtube, could be replaced by a placeholder with an external link to the resource. That’s a design decision for Matt.
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