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If you’re a Mac user, or an iPod or iPad user, you should check out Dan’s web site. If Dan Rodney’s name sounds familiar, that’s because he’s the wonderful guy who gave us the Proper Fractions script for InDesign (now in ver 2.0, I see, and still available as both a free and a paid app). and is a prolific poster to the MobileRead forum.) Durrant runs a publishing company in the U.K.

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In his post, Dan says that these are his updates to the original ePub Zip script that another user, “pdurrant,” created.

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EDIT Feb 15, 2016: Go to the first post in this forum thread and download the latest version of the Zip/Unzip Applescript (one script that does both) that author Paul Durrant has posted: … OR, Mac/Windows users should download the free utility, eCanCrusher, by Rorohiko here: Just go to the EPUB Zip for Mac OS X thread there, and about five messages down you’ll see Dan Rodney’s post that includes a download link for the latest version of the two scripts: ePubUnZip1.0 and ePubZip1.0.3. I don’t want to link to the scripts directly here, since they’re hosted on another site: the MobileRead Forum, a must-follow community forum for anyone creating eBooks. I’ve just learned of a couple free AppleScripts for extracting and rearchiving EPUBs on a Mac that should make Terminal-phobes happy. Since Terminal is free, and she just needed to do a couple simple things with it, and most importantly, it worked … why not just use Terminal? Makes sense. Nothing against UNIX, but why not just use an OS X shareware utility like Springy or BetterZip … two programs that let you edit the contents of zipped files without needing to unzip them first? Liz told us that she’s simply “never had any luck” with those programs the EPUB files she ends up with won’t validate or won’t even open sometimes. I wondered why Liz used Terminal too, to be honest. You can extract and re-archive the component files of an EPUB just like any. On Windows, you don’t need to use a Terminal-like program.

During Liz Castro’s recent InDesign to EPUB webinars ( Part 1 and Part 2) for InDesignSecrets, some of the attendees wondered why she used Terminal (OS X’s command line interface utility program) to do simple things like zip and unzip the EPUB files in order to edit its component CSS and XHTML files.