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Old 01-24-2013, 12:48 AM   #1
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Textbook conversion issues

I just converted an anatomy kindle book to pdf. For some reason the conversion ended up creating 2 pages for each page. The book is an atlas, so the pages just have a title and then a picture. The conversion resulted in one page with just the title and then a second page of just the picture.

Anyone know what settings I need to tweak to get them onto one page?

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Old 01-24-2013, 12:53 AM   #2
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There are no settings. If the picture size is larger than the page size, the picture will be placed on its own page to maximize available space for the picture.
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Hi Kovid,

Would he be able to use --custom-size or --paper-size command line options to ebook-convert for pdf output to try and grow the output page so that it is big enough, or is that not what those are for?

I have a similar problem and thought about trying these out to see if they helped.

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Old 01-24-2013, 07:50 PM   #4
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Ill try tweaking some things and see if it works. I also just noticed that the last 1/4 of the textbook is completely blank w/ titles but no pictures . I have a feeling this has to do with the error message I got at 67% ---"The script on this page appears to have a problem." It asked whether I wanted to continue and I said yes.

--any idea on how to fix this?
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Old 01-24-2013, 10:34 PM   #5
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@KevinH: You could increase the page size a lot and eventually its bound to fit.

@mohsy: That error indicates there is too much stuff in the book. I suggest converting it to epub, splitting the single long html file into several smaller ones and then converting that.
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