pandoc 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 19.10.

Turns out I had to use "-t epub" instead of "-t epub3" :

pandoc -f html -t epub -o output.epub input.html

Thank you.

Le mercredi 22 avril 2020 17:58:39 UTC+2, John MacFarlane a écrit :
>
>
> What pandoc version are you running on the linux box? 
> This works fine for me. 
>
>
> Heck Lennon <frdt...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org <javascript:>> writes: 
>
> > Since I had a Linux host available, I went around that issue with 
> Windows 
> > and shell expansion. 
> > 
> > pandoc -f html -t epub3 -o output.epub input.html 
> > 
> > 
> > pandoc ran successfully (no error message), but the EPUB can't be opened 
> in 
> > a Windows GUI application that supports EPUB files ("Error loading 
> > file.epub"). Likewise, I can't open the file after changing its 
> extension 
> > from EPUB to ZIP. 
> > 
> > Here's the input files (HTML + PNGs): 
> > 
> > https://we.tl/t-5EeGXML1rb 
> > 
> > Do I need extra options in the command line? 
> > 
> > Le mercredi 22 avril 2020 11:55:49 UTC+2, Heck Lennon a écrit : 
> >> 
> >> Thanks everyone for the infos! 
> >> 
> >> Le mercredi 22 avril 2020 01:25:21 UTC+2, Kolen Cheung a écrit : 
> >>> 
> >>> A side note, since your goal is to convert from PDF to ePub, you 
> probably 
> >>> will have better results using other tools. Eg I know it can be 
> converted 
> >>> to docx, and then from docx to ePub. There may he tool that can help 
> you 
> >>> convert that directly too. Essentially for the tools you choose, you’d 
> want 
> >>> to choose one preserving most information. And since pandoc focuses 
> many on 
> >>> the structure of the document, much other information would be lost. 
> The 
> >>> choice of tool also depends on which ones you’re comfortable with, Eg 
> the 
> >>> PDF to docx I mentioned probably can be done by Adobe Acrobat and MS 
> Word. 
> >>> But they are proprietary and difficult to run from the command line. 
> >>> 
> >>> In your case, since you have a tool preconverted them to html already, 
> >>> html to ePub can be done better by some other engines (since the 2 are 
> >>> closely related.) may be you can try Calibre which also have a cli. 
> >> 
> >> 
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