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Old 09-19-2007, 11:44 AM   #16
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Got it. I will let you know the results.

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I'm attaching Tom Corbett #1 since it does have a ToC and Peter Rabbit does not. It also have varying sizes of illustrations. It is saved as HTML from within Book Designer.
Got it. I will let you know the results.

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trial conversion.

Here are the results.

I just ran it through without any editing. To make a real book I would add meta data and redo the TOC. The links all work in the book but mobipocket will fail to recognize it as a toc.

Metadata means fixing the title, author, genre, description of the book.

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Here are the results.

I just ran it through without any editing. To make a real book I would add meta data and redo the TOC. The links all work in the book but mobipocket will fail to recognize it as a toc.

Metadata means fixing the title, author, genre, description of the book.

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So all you'd need do is redo the ToC, add in the medadata info and paginate right?
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So all you'd need do is redo the ToC, add in the medadata info and paginate right?
I have been studying the results. Did you want the pictures at the end of the chapter to actually be at the start of the chapter? If so then the links are wrong.

Did you want the chapters to start on new pages? If so this is not happening.

There is no paginate on MobiPocket. They paginate on the fly which is why they can't tell you how many pages are in the book. They only provide a progress bar based on the file size (I believe). Thus they have some problems with pagination if you jump around and then backup. This is a result of giving the user full control of the font sizes.

The TOC depends on tags to generate and it is usually best just to let it do it. It all depends on what you want the book to look like.

There is also an issue with the cover page. It needs special treatment to appear on the library page on a pc. So far none of the other mobipocket devices support images on the library listing but the pc does so it is likely the rest will get them at some point. It is best to select the coverpage image separately in creator. Thus it should be missing from the html.

The best bet is to remove the cover image and toc from the html and let the creator program build them. Then add the meta data and you are done. When I tried the result on my Palm (A Garmin device) it would display the images but when I tapped down it would reverse the image (black for white) and then a second tap would move to the next page. I am not sure what is causing this but it is likely a mobipocket bug. I'll try this on my Windows Mobile device and see what happens.

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Old 09-19-2007, 03:24 PM   #21
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According to their own Mobipocket Creator documentation, there is a page-break tag <mbpagebreak/>

Hope this helps.

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I have been studying the results. Did you want the pictures at the end of the chapter to actually be at the start of the chapter? If so then the links are wrong.

Did you want the chapters to start on new pages? If so this is not happening.

There is no paginate on MobiPocket. They paginate on the fly which is why they can't tell you how many pages are in the book. They only provide a progress bar based on the file size (I believe). Thus they have some problems with pagination if you jump around and then backup. This is a result of giving the user full control of the font sizes.

The TOC depends on tags to generate and it is usually best just to let it do it. It all depends on what you want the book to look like.

There is also an issue with the cover page. It needs special treatment to appear on the library page on a pc. So far none of the other mobipocket devices support images on the library listing but the pc does so it is likely the rest will get them at some point. It is best to select the coverpage image separately in creator. Thus it should be missing from the html.

The best bet is to remove the cover image and toc from the html and let the creator program build them. Then add the meta data and you are done. When I tried the result on my Palm (A Garmin device) it would display the images but when I tapped down it would reverse the image (black for white) and then a second tap would move to the next page. I am not sure what is causing this but it is likely a mobipocket bug. I'll try this on my Windows Mobile device and see what happens.

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Can i just make a geeky comment? I know I'm being an html snob, but the html produced by BookDesigner is truly truly horrible. It breaks just about all of the rules for writing valid html (no paragraph tags! no heading tags!).

I don't think this is entirely an issue of snobbery. Future ebook formats will be based on xhtml and while i suspect they will need to work with non-valid xhtml it's got to be an advantage to start with a properly marked-up reference source text as the basis.

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According to their own Mobipocket Creator documentation, there is a page-break tag <mbp:pagebreak/>

Hope this helps.

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In case anyone is confused:-

Code:
<mbp:pagebreak/>
Your version is more fun though.

[quote:DaleDe]The TOC depends on tags to generate and it is usually best just to let it do it. It all depends on what you want the book to look like[/quote]

You would need to go through and replace

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<A name=Page_15></A></DIV><HR>
<SPAN id=title><A name=BdToc_2>
<DIV align=center><FONT color=#001950><B>CHAPTER 2</B></FONT></DIV> </A> 
</SPAN>
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<h3>....</h3>
which should be relatively straightforward with a text editor that supports regular expressions.

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Quick Question re: reformatting txt files

I've got a *bunch* of .txt files which have - for some silly reason - *SHORT* lines, maybe 40-45 characters before hitting a hard line-break. Is there a simple executable or a Word 2002 script which will take out all the excess line-breaks within a paragraph. Most of these files have two line-breaks between paragraphs.

I have, on my system Atlantis Word Processor and Word 2002 if anyone has a script for one of those.

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Can i just make a geeky comment? I know I'm being an html snob, but the html produced by BookDesigner is truly truly horrible. It breaks just about all of the rules for writing valid html (no paragraph tags! no heading tags!).

I don't think this is entirely an issue of snobbery. Future ebook formats will be based on xhtml and while i suspect they will need to work with non-valid xhtml it's got to be an advantage to start with a properly marked-up reference source text as the basis.

OK flame me now.
I believe you are correct. <DIV> is used a lot without a <p> tag which messes with lots of generation programs. I know I fed the results into
ebook publisher and it had to auto add a bunch of <p> tags.

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I've got a *bunch* of .txt files which have - for some silly reason - *SHORT* lines, maybe 40-45 characters before hitting a hard line-break. Is there a simple executable or a Word 2002 script which will take out all the excess line-breaks within a paragraph. Most of these files have two line-breaks between paragraphs.

I have, on my system Atlantis Word Processor and Word 2002 if anyone has a script for one of those.

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http://www.simtel.net/product.php%5B...t_page%5D76296
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According to their own Mobipocket Creator documentation, there is a page-break tag <mbpagebreak/>

Hope this helps.

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Yes, I am aware of the break page tag but you don't want to use it on every page thus I didn't think it applied to pagination. You will likely want to use it for chapter boundaries, hence my question to the original poster about chapters and images.

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I hope it's helpful (I'm conscious that the end result is you may decide that producing prc versions is too much hassle!). I've done a quick reformat of your file - so that it should be possible to generate a TOC automatically. Hopefully someone can run it through Mobipocket Creator to see what results it produces.

I have found one weirdness, which is that at least on a PDA with Windows Mobile MBP will only display gifs in html. I don't think this is a problem with prc files.

In the v3 version I replaced some of the pngs with gifs.
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I've got a *bunch* of .txt files which have - for some silly reason - *SHORT* lines, maybe 40-45 characters before hitting a hard line-break. Is there a simple executable or a Word 2002 script which will take out all the excess line-breaks within a paragraph. Most of these files have two line-breaks between paragraphs.

I have, on my system Atlantis Word Processor and Word 2002 if anyone has a script for one of those.

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You might find it worth getting a text editor (such as e-texteditor that supports regular expressions. These allow you to do very clever search and replace operations - eg select all returns that follow a letter rather than a punctuation mark and delete them (or replace with a space). There's a bit of a learning curve but they offer a very flexible way of dealing with problem texts.

Have a look at the tutorial here.

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Have a look at the tutorial here.
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