Epub2 being made instead of Epub3

[retiredbiker]

I decided I should update myself a bit and start making epubs version 3 instead of 2. Using version 2.2.1 on Pop_os.

So I went into "Preferences->General Settings->Basics->Create New or Empty Epubs as:" and set the preference to Version 3.

Then (a couple of days later after several restarts) I used the ODT Import plugin to import a novel, and behold, I get a version 2 epub, with it's book.ncx and no nav document.

Any advice on what I'm doing wrong? TIA!

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by retiredbiker

Then (a couple of days later after several restarts) I used the ODT Import plugin to import a novel, and behold, I get a version 2 epub, with it's book.ncx and no nav document.

Any advice on what I'm doing wrong? TIA!

Did you check to see if the ODT Import plugin supports epub3, or if it takes extra configuration to generate epub3s with the ODT Import plugin? I'm pretty sure it's the latter.

Sigil has no control over what version of epub an import plugin gives it. If given an epub3, Sigil opens the epub3. If given an epub2 Sigil opens the epub2.

The Sigil setting only affects what version of empty epub is created when opening Sigil without input. Or using New->Default (Ctrl+n) menu. It doesn't automatically convert all things to epub3 because the default is set to epub3.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by retiredbiker

So I went into "Preferences->General Settings->Basics->Create New or Empty Epubs as:" and set the preference to Version 3.

The ODT plugin has its own .json preferences file. Please open ODTImport.json and change this line:

  "output_format": "epub2",

to:

  "output_format": "epub3",

(If the original line doesn't end with a comma, don't add it.)

You can convert your epub2 book with KevinH's ePub3-itizer plugin.

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

The ODT plugin has its own .json preferences file. Please open ODTImport.json

Ah, this worked, thank you!

(I had found other settings given in the plugin thread in the past, but not this one.)

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

You can convert your epub2 book with KevinH's ePub3-itizer plugin.

Tried that and it works as well, can't tell the difference just looking through the file list and code view. Always great to have two hammers when faced with a lot of nails! Thanks all for the great work.