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Thanks for sharing. My humble feedback would be that the website and README would be much more helpful however if they showed pictures of sample output. That's the main thing we want to see :-)

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The repo _does_ include a sample book, but you're right, some screenshots would be nice. I actually created the tool to handle all of my wife's books but I avoided linking to them from the project because I don't want it to look like a promotional tool/grab. But if anyone is interested in seeing books "in the wild" that have been created with this tool I'm happy to send you links.

Your example repo appears to contain some weird characters for me:

https://puu.sh/waX9G/3d54abf030.png

https://puu.sh/waXy2/7106b4768d.png

This is on Chrome Stable, Windows. Looking in the Github rendered.

That's to do with Github not displaying PDFs very well, but if you download it you can view it fine. Also, that PDF is the Adobe Pre-Flight verification of the 5x8 template.

The sample book can be created by cloning the repo and running the container. (http://chrisanthropic.github.io/Open-Publisher-Documentation...)

If you want to see examples, I formatted everything here: https://www.amazon.com/Tristan-J.-Tarwater/e/B004WS3P3A/

Ah, excellent! Indeed it did work.

I wonder what causes Github to mess up on just the verification messages, probably something to do with the character set.

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