ebook-polish - ebook-polish
ebook-polish [options] input_file [output_file]
Polishing books is all about putting the shine of perfection onto your carefully
crafted e-books.
Polishing tries to minimize the changes to the internal code of your e-book.
Unlike conversion, it does not flatten CSS, rename files, change font sizes,
adjust margins, etc. Every action performs only the minimum set of changes
needed for the desired effect.
You should use this tool as the last step in your e-book creation process.
Note that polishing only works on files in the AZW3 or EPUB formats.
Whenever you pass arguments to
ebook-polish that have spaces in them,
enclose the arguments in quotation marks. For example: "/some path/with
spaces"
- --add-soft-hyphens, -H
- Add soft hyphens to all words in the book. This allows the
book to be rendered better when the text is justified, in readers that do
not support hyphenation.
- --compress-images, -i
- Losslessly compress images in the book, to reduce the
filesize, without affecting image quality.
- --cover, -c
- Path to a cover image. Changes the cover specified in the
e-book. If no cover is present, or the cover is not properly identified,
inserts a new cover.
- --embed-fonts, -e
- Embed all fonts that are referenced in the document and are
not already embedded. This will scan your computer for the fonts, and if
they are found, they will be embedded into the document. Please ensure
that you have the proper license for embedding the fonts used in this
document.
- --help, -h
- show this help message and exit
- --jacket, -j
- Insert a "book jacket" page at the
start of the book that contains all the book metadata such as title, tags,
authors, series, comments, etc. Any previous book jacket will be
replaced.
- --opf, -o
- Path to an OPF file. The metadata in the book is updated
from the OPF file.
- --remove-jacket
- Remove a previous inserted book jacket page.
- --remove-soft-hyphens
- Remove soft hyphens from all text in the book.
- --remove-unused-css, -u
- Remove all unused CSS rules from stylesheets and
<style> tags. Some books created from production templates can have
a large number of extra CSS rules that don 't match any actual
content. These extra rules can slow down readers that need to parse them
all.
- --smarten-punctuation, -p
- Convert plain text dashes, ellipsis, quotes, multiple
hyphens, etc. into their typographically correct equivalents. Note that
the algorithm can sometimes generate incorrect results, especially when
single quotes at the start of contractions are involved.
- --subset-fonts, -f
- Subsetting fonts means reducing an embedded font to contain
only the characters used from that font in the book. This greatly reduces
the size of the font files (halving the font file sizes is common). For
example, if the book uses a specific font for headers, then subsetting
will reduce that font to contain only the characters present in the actual
headers in the book. Or if the book embeds the bold and italic versions of
a font, but bold and italic text is relatively rare, or absent altogether,
then the bold and italic fonts can either be reduced to only a few
characters or completely removed. The only downside to subsetting fonts is
that if, at a later date you decide to add more text to your books, the
newly added text might not be covered by the subset font.
- --upgrade-book, -U
- رقِّ
البِنى
الداخلية
للكتاب إن
أمكن. مثلاً
ترقية كتب EPUB 2
إلى EPUB 3.
- --verbose
- Produce more verbose output, useful for debugging.
- --version
- show program's version number and exit
Kovid Goyal
Kovid Goyal