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Old 05-02-2012, 09:24 AM   #376
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You might want to try the mobi files with KF8 components with Kindle for Android on your Android phone/device. It works fine so far as I know.
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Old 05-02-2012, 09:32 AM   #377
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I have an iPhone, not an Android The mobi file with both KF7, KF8 and kindlegen source file works fine on my iPhone. Just the KF8 only file which has download issues. So perhaps the iPhone Kindle app does not have KF8 support.

Will try this evening on my Kindle Touch 3G to download the KF8 only file to check if it works. My parcel awaits me at home
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Old 05-02-2012, 02:27 PM   #378
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I was surprised because the KF8 file I have put on my Kindle Touch 3G cannot be read. I have called Amazon and after some checking they told me the new KF8 format is designed for bigger screens, and the Touch cannot read them.

So I'll have to take either the KF7 version or the combined KF7/KF8 one, if I manage to make the kindlegensrc thing to work

Edit: in fact after some testing it seems the touch really does support KF8. It is good because some ePub format requires this, and without this I have a bad formatting.

BUT... I cannot upload a AZW3 file to my personal documents on Amazon, it refuses the extension, it accepts just mobi or AZW... AND... Calibre cannot send AZW3 files to the Kindle, it does not recon it as a valid format...

AND... if I rename the AZW3 file to AZW then the Kindle does not recon it anymore...

SO... I have two choices : either put AZW3 the manual way, through drag'n drop in the Kindle...

OR... keep the mobi file which includes both KF7 and KF8 format, but then without the kindlegen script... and so I have to find out an easy way, such as a wrapper for OS X, to do this I don't want to have to use command line each time

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Old 05-30-2012, 12:41 AM   #379
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I was surprised because the KF8 file I have put on my Kindle Touch 3G cannot be read. I have called Amazon and after some checking they told me the new KF8 format is designed for bigger screens, and the Touch cannot read them.
It is true that Kindle Touch does not support fixed-layout KF8 correctly. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, that's probably what they were referring to. Reflowable KF8 works fine of course.
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Old 05-30-2012, 02:43 AM   #380
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AND... Calibre cannot send AZW3 files to the Kindle, it does not recon it as a valid format...
I think that the very latest calibre now knows about and uses the .azw3 file name extension.
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Old 06-03-2012, 09:21 AM   #381
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I've found a problem with the current MobiUnpack. A Mobipocket link is usually given in the source as something like

<a filepos=0000005027 >

I've come across some that also have an id attribute like this

<a id="When" filepos=0004135413 >

MobiUnpack is correctly converting the first into an href <a href="#filepos5027" > and inserting an anchor links <a id="filepos5027" />

Unfortunately, for the second form, although an anchor link is successfully inserted, the original mobipocket link isn't converted into an href.

I'm looking into this now myself, but if anyone has any ideas for a fix, I'd be glad to hear them!
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Old 06-03-2012, 09:44 AM   #382
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I'm guessing it's some of my shoddy regex work at lines 70-73 of mobi_html.py.
I'm not entirely certain of Python's default lazy/greedy settings for it's regex engine, but it seems to me that something similar to (line 71):
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link_pattern = re.compile(r'''<a(.*?)filepos=['"]{0,1}0*(\d+)['"]{0,1}(.*?)>''', re.IGNORECASE)
and consequently (line 73):
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srctext = link_pattern.sub(r'''<a\1href="#filepos\2"\3>''', srctext)
might do the trick (unless that id attribute itself needs additional massaging, that is).
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Or blow it up... my regex-fu is not mighty.

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Old 06-03-2012, 09:44 AM   #383
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Ah - it seems to be the regular expression in mobi_html.py that's the problem. It didn't consider that there might be anything other than white space there.

That's a pretty simple fix, and shouldn't break anything. Just two lines need changing in mobi_html.py

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link_pattern = re.compile(r'''<a([^>]*?)filepos=['"]{0,1}0*(\d+)['"]{0,1}([^>]*?)>''', re.IGNORECASE)
srctext = link_pattern.sub(r'''<a\1href="#filepos\2"\3>''', srctext)
I'm just testing it now, and if I get time I'll upload a fixed version later today. Perhaps even wrapped in a new version of the AppleScript too!
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Old 06-03-2012, 09:46 AM   #384
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It seems we agree, although I've been a little more cautious in my search pattern, making sure I don't search outside the <a ...> tag.
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It seems we agree, although I've been a little more cautious in my search pattern, making sure I don't search outside the <a ...> tag.
I defer most heartily. The more cautious the better.
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I've updated the python script to v0.51, and I've also updated the AppleScript wrapper to run the latest version, always with splitting and raw output turned on.

The latest version and AppleScript wrapper can now be found in the 5th post in this thread, here.
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Old 06-20-2012, 08:01 PM   #387
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Bug report!

I just used Mobi_Unpack 0.51 to unpack a Mobipocket file and the HTML file I got back is all one line. There needs to be line endings at the different lines.
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The MobiUnpack tries to massage the original mobi6 mobi code code as little as possible (other than replacing or updating the links). If the original source did not use proper line endings then the html file produced by MobiUnpack will not have proper line endings. Remember line endings (carriage returns, line feeds or some combination) are ignored in html and so some html preprocessing programs will actually remove them to save space.

You can use any regular expressions to add line ends or you choice after every closing </div> or </p> or almost wherever you like.

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I just used Mobi_Unpack 0.51 to unpack a Mobipocket file and the HTML file I got back is all one line. There needs to be line endings at the different lines.
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I would prefer if Mobi_Unpack put in the line endings where they should be even if the original file was garbage.

Though after unpacking a Mobi file, I think it's probably easier to convert to ePub, clean it up, make the changes and convert back.
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I would prefer if Mobi_Unpack put in the line endings where they should be even if the original file was garbage.
There is no place where line endings "should be" in HTML. The spec specifically doesn't require them.
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