Sentences with phrase «epub zip archive»

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EPUB is delivered as one ZIP file that's an archive of the organizational and content files for the book.

Because EPUB is mostly ZIP and XHTML, there's little reason not to distribute documentation bundles as EPUB archives rather than as simple.

When ready for distribution, this directory structure is bundled together into a ZIP - format file, with a few special requirements discussed in Bundling your EPUB file as a ZIP archive.

Next, add the mimetype file and build the epub + zip archive yourself.

Users with EPUB readers benefit from the additional metadata and automatic table of contents, but those without can simply treat the EPUB archive as a normal ZIP file and view the XHTML contents in a browser.

You'll see how to include it using common ZIP arguments in Bundling your EPUB file as a ZIP archive.

The good news, however, is that EPUB is a simple, modular format and the constituent components of an EPUB publication can be hand - authored and hand - tweaked using simple text editors and other widely available tools that support HTML, XML and / or ZIP archives.

NOTE — What makes EPUB different from a website in a ZIP file To be more specific, and get only a bit more technical, an EPUB publication differs from an arbitrary website put into a ZIP archive in the following ways:

As conformant ZIP archives, EPUB Publications can be unzipped by many software programs, simplifying both their production and consumption.

The EPUB Publication's resources are bundled for distribution in a ZIP - based archive with the file extension.

It's telling the ereader that, in fact, this is an ePub file wrapped inside a ZIP archive.

This is actually a much simpler process than you might think: an ePub file is just a carefully constructed ZIP archive with a different extension (the last three or four letters at the end of the file name).