03-13-2013, 10:03 AM | #1 |
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Word to html or Mobi
Is there any method or plugin that would take a Word document and convert to CLEAN html or Mobi formats?! Or maybe that would clean up inputted Word html in general? I'm used to creating mobi books manually but I have a client who has a ton of books she's created in Word and she's wanting to convert them to Kindle format. When I save Word to html it is horrid so I'm looking for a way to get it cleaned up.
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Normally if in Word you save to "Web Page (filtered) the HTML that is generated is not bad. It is when you use the other HTML option that you get really bad HTML.
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03-13-2013, 03:45 PM | #4 |
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Why not look at Toxaris's Word macro for clean HTML code?
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For straight forward documents I save as RTF and convert it with Calibre, I save as filtered HTML if I have tables, endnotes, web links etc. Make sure your friend has used Word to do the formatting - basically no manual tabbing for horizontal spacing and no extra lines for vertical spacing etc - instead use Word's style features. The HTML that you get from any word processor is never going to be as compact as HTML that you craft by hand, no matter how you convert it. The Open Office Writer2Epub path could be an option - but you will have to install OOo for Mac. BR |
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Actually jackibar would have to
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Now the work is truly done and and jackibar can send his/her client the bill ^o) BR Last edited by BetterRed; 03-14-2013 at 02:00 AM. |
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