After more than a decade of digitizing and processing everything: trade, academic and education books, preservation archive content; in English, Spanish, French, German, Arabic, Malay, Thai and a few other languages, you start to think you have seen it all.
We have had enough "One chapter" books for these not to be considered a rarity, but just last week we got our first ONE PARAGRAPH book. Yep! No kidding. 485KB - one paragraph, one book. Forget about test cases, we didn't even think it was needed (and hopefully wont be needed again).
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The next version of AZARDI is due out shortly - this week hopefully. The "big thing" is this version will have a Reference mode. In Reference mode AZARDI will give an ePub Wedge Report (Pass/Fail) by component, plus a detailed printable HTML report for audit, or wallpaper or whatever. So now you can validate ePubs right on your desktop while you are making them, and then continue to read the file.
This is a more transparent report than epubCheck insofar as it tells you what is being checked. It is also a little educational. It has no bias to devices or usage (eg. We don't care if the files are too big for ADE or Sony devices, but the file detail report can be used for device applicability assessment).
The tests AZARDI will run and report are listed below. These tests are for ePub in this version, Daisy is still a way off - if ever. Any comments on the check points are most welcome.
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