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Old 07-08-2010, 01:06 PM   #1
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Calibre cut lines in a converted CHM to MOBI

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I've converted a CHM file to MOBI via calibre, but I've noticed the lines are cut.
Playing around in my Kindle with the font size I can read almost the full line but this is a useless workaround.

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Old 07-08-2010, 11:27 PM   #2
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I've converted a CHM file to MOBI via calibre, but I've noticed the lines are cut.
Playing around in my Kindle with the font size I can read almost the full line but this is a useless workaround.

any suggestion?
Lines are cut? I assume you mean they run off the screen. I think this happens when the html in question uses <pre> tags. I think these tags are used to prevent code examples from wrapping and get converted intact.

You could run the conversion with a directory in debug then go into the html provided there and see what is in the code that is preventing it from wrapping.

Update: You could always convert the tables manually to images and size them to fit your reader.

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yes. That's what I mean.

so, deleting all that "pre" tags will solve thi issue?
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Old 07-09-2010, 05:02 AM   #4
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Convert the pre tags into div tags.
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Convert the pre tags into div tags.
Nice tip.
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Old 07-09-2010, 07:54 AM   #6
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I've replaced every "pre" tag with "div" (and "/pre" with "/div") but this did not solve the issue.

Calibre keeps converting to mobi with the lines running off the screen.

any other tool or workaround?

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I've replaced every "pre" tag with "div" (and "/pre" with "/div") but this did not solve the issue.

Calibre keeps converting to mobi with the lines running off the screen.

any other tool or workaround?
I'm guessing your tables are running off the screen? In theory you could convert the settings from px to % for widths but that's too much for me to talk about.

You could select linearize tables under conversion - look & feel but it'll be ugly.

Good Luck.
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Old 07-09-2010, 10:08 AM   #8
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I think it's not a table issue. The tables look great. It's the normal text that appears running out of the screen.
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Old 07-09-2010, 11:10 AM   #9
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It's not just <pre> any tag with whitespace: pre in the css will be rendered like a <pre>
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Deleted any reference in the code to any occurrence of "pre". Tags, CSS, ...anywhere.

Still getting the "hidden lines" issue.
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there is something in your input file that is specifying non reflowable layout for text.
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Old 07-09-2010, 12:41 PM   #12
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Deleted any reference in the code to any occurrence of "pre". Tags, CSS, ...anywhere.

Still getting the "hidden lines" issue.
I glanced through the epub, and saw lots of very wide tables that are offscreen, even on my widescreen monitor. I looked inside, and it appeared that they were in table data and/or row tags, but without the surrounding table tags. It looks like a tables issue to me, although if you point to a particular non-table bit of text, I'm sure someone will look at it. I'd try linearize tables to make sure that doesn't fix it, and also check to make sure you don't have some malformed html relating to tables.
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CHM & wiki can be some of the most awful code around.
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