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MrTanquery · 12-17-2012, 11:23 PM

It's a simple question but there are hours and hours of mind numbing work on the line for me if I can't solve it. I'm getting extra "<p>" tags (HTML paragraph tags) when I convert from pdf to AZW3. I'm sure the extra p tags would be there in the other formats too, it seems to be something in how Calibre is written to handle converting pdf formatting to HTML.

Is there a way to modify Calibre to only use p tags when there is an actual paragraph? Simple line wrapping should be handled automatically by the reader, as per usual.

As a matter of interest, Adobe Acrobat pro handles this properly when you ask it to save a pdf as an HTML file. Which is to say it only uses paragraph tags when there is an actual paragraph, and lets the reader handle line wrapping in between paragraphs...

Your help is greatly appreciated!
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12-17-2012, 11:23 PM	#1
MrTanquery Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Extra "<p>" tags when converting to AZW3 from pdf It's a simple question but there are hours and hours of mind numbing work on the line for me if I can't solve it. I'm getting extra "<p>" tags (HTML paragraph tags) when I convert from pdf to AZW3. I'm sure the extra p tags would be there in the other formats too, it seems to be something in how Calibre is written to handle converting pdf formatting to HTML. Is there a way to modify Calibre to only use p tags when there is an actual paragraph? Simple line wrapping should be handled automatically by the reader, as per usual. As a matter of interest, Adobe Acrobat pro handles this properly when you ask it to save a pdf as an HTML file. Which is to say it only uses paragraph tags when there is an actual paragraph, and lets the reader handle line wrapping in between paragraphs... Your help is greatly appreciated! C Last edited by MrTanquery; 12-17-2012 at 11:25 PM.