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Anne-Marie Concepcion

March 22, 2011 at 4:30 am #59027

Anne-Marie Concepcion

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Working from the complete epub file, you would need to:

Unzip it (extract the contents) into individual files

Remove the XHTML files and jpg/gif images representing the content you don't want to include

Edit the content.opf file and the toc.ncx file to remove all references to the deleted content

Possibly edit the XHTML file(s) containing links to missing content, such as an HTML TOC, if you included one… removing the links (though you could keep the text intact so people could see what they're missing)

Rezip the file, converting it back to an EPUB

Validate the EPUB again

In many cases it'd be easier to just create a new, sample-size INDD file and export to EPUB, especially if you have a lot of cross-references, footnotes, an index, etc.

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