NAME

       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"

[OPTIONS]

       --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-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 dont
              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.

       --verbose
              Produce more verbose output, useful for debugging.

       --version
              show program's version number and exit

AUTHOR

       Kovid Goyal

COPYRIGHT

       Kovid Goyal