Horrible Result

[smaragdus]

Hello,

I tried to save a single page (this article) using 'Save Page' command and the result was horrible, I would say that the generated EPUB file is unusable.

Screens:

For me such EPUB files are unreadable.

I am using Save as eBook version 1.3.5 with Cent Browser (Chromium-based) version 4.1.7.182 on Windows 8.

I hope that this extension is still in development and and new releases would fix such issues.

Regards

[alexadam]

I tried to save the article with the latest firefox and it doesn't even work - it freezes the extension. This is clearly a bug. But there are some problem with that web page too, you can see the HTML validator log here: https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unz.com%2Farticle%2Fagainst-mishima%2F

If you find more pages that don't work as expected, please post the links here. I'll try to create some tests and then do a major release with more updates

Thank you!

[smaragdus]

@alexadam

Thanks for your quick response. If it happens that I come across pages which cause problems I will let you know posting the links here,

Regards

[Verfallsdatum]

Hi, I'm also having this problem but with the scientificamerican.com website (article example here)

the output file is not great...

Cosmic String Gravitational Waves Could Solve Antimatter Mystery - Scientific American (3).zip

thank you!

[alexadam]

@Verfallsdatum the SA page is full of html errors & a 'fatal' error that stopped the validator :) https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scientificamerican.com%2Farticle%2Fcosmic-string-gravitational-waves-could-solve-antimatter-mystery%2F

I did some updates and I prepare a new release. In the next version you won't see that garbage html in the output ebook, but some error code/message.

I use a simple html parser that cannot handle errors and I'm still working on a method to fix this. The problem is, even if I 'force' the output of the ebook (for ex. just copy paste the html without parsing it) most ebook readers won't open it and throw an error... because they cannot read it - so the solution is to find and fix the error before. Any ideas are welcome!

ps. I investigated more and it seems that the error comes from a link in the social share box. A quick fix is to create a custom style that hides it, like this:

url regex:
scientificamerican\.com\/article\/

css:
.article-grid__share {
display: none;
}
.share-box {
display: none;
}

[Verfallsdatum]

Ah yes indeed, removing all the elements that contain errors does fix this issue. Thank you!