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kovidgoyal · 09-25-2008, 12:16 PM

you need to write a plugin that has a method convert that accepts an OPF file. It should take the list of html files specified in the <manifest> of the OPF file in the order specified by the <spine> (note that calibre has classes to deal with OPF files) and create a .MOBI file from that list of HTML files.

Since MOBI supports a proprietary superset of HTML 3.2 you're going to have to do a lot of conversion of the HTML, or you can just call mobigen.

The problem with that is that mobigen is not available on OS X.

09-25-2008, 12:16 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,839 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	you need to write a plugin that has a method convert that accepts an OPF file. It should take the list of html files specified in the <manifest> of the OPF file in the order specified by the <spine> (note that calibre has classes to deal with OPF files) and create a .MOBI file from that list of HTML files. Since MOBI supports a proprietary superset of HTML 3.2 you're going to have to do a lot of conversion of the HTML, or you can just call mobigen. The problem with that is that mobigen is not available on OS X.