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Originally Posted by pfisterfarm
Is there a good way to convert pdfs or Word documents to Mobipocket? I've tried a bunch of things and they all throw the formatting out the window. It's not that complex... a cover image and then the text. I just want it to maintain line and page breaks. Everything I've tried seems to extract just the text. Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!
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Well, Mobipocket Creator does an 'adequate' job, but BookDesigner will at least let you re-insert chapter breaks. And why in heck would you want to keep line and page breaks when every time you select a different font size (or font in those devices which allow multiple fonts) you're going to get all your formatting thrown out the window?
Derek
P.S. The four pictures are:
#1 My normal font size in Constantia
#2 Same font "size" but changed to Verdana
#3 Verdana font again but upped by one font size
#4 Now same size but changed to GaramondNo8
Notice how the text flow changes to fit the new font family/size. This is why hard-coded line and page breaks are not a 'good thing' under Mobi.
P.P.S. The ebook, "Fledgling" is by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee, but Francis Turner and Chris Dolley have taken - with M&L's permission - the weekly chapter posts of the (very) rough draft and bundled them into .mobi files. Unfortunately, I've not yet taken this ebook apart and re-formatted it to show the proper author names.