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Ticallion · 08-12-2010, 04:17 AM

I have around 85 customized LRF ebooks I made through BookDesigner, with TOCs and such I'd like kept intact. I noticed that doing a straight LRF to EPUB through Calibre always produced problems, like chapter links going to wrong pages and such (any way to fix this?). The only way I've been able to keep the links working perfectly was to do LRF to MOBI to EPUB. Problem with that is paragraph spacing - either you get spaces between all or none at all when you convert from LRF.

I also have the books in HTML which were output with Bookdesigner, so they could be used as a source too. But the problem with that is I seem to have to run them through Word to set all the chapter headers to a style so Calibre recognizes page breaks. Then to make that worse, the chapter links can't jump back to the TOC like the LRFs do, unless I were to manually create hyperlinks which is incredibly tedious.

So I'm wondering what the best option would be to get all of these custom made books into EPUB while keeping the original formatting and chapter links working properly? I'm doing so because sooner or later I'll be getting a new reader, and LRF will be useless then. What would be really nice would be if BookDesigner simply had an EPUB output. I find Sigil a bit of a pain to use having to always mess around with stylesheet codes and all.

08-12-2010, 04:17 AM	#1
Ticallion Connoisseur Posts: 61 Karma: 12 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Kindle PW	Best way to go about this? I have around 85 customized LRF ebooks I made through BookDesigner, with TOCs and such I'd like kept intact. I noticed that doing a straight LRF to EPUB through Calibre always produced problems, like chapter links going to wrong pages and such (any way to fix this?). The only way I've been able to keep the links working perfectly was to do LRF to MOBI to EPUB. Problem with that is paragraph spacing - either you get spaces between all or none at all when you convert from LRF. I also have the books in HTML which were output with Bookdesigner, so they could be used as a source too. But the problem with that is I seem to have to run them through Word to set all the chapter headers to a style so Calibre recognizes page breaks. Then to make that worse, the chapter links can't jump back to the TOC like the LRFs do, unless I were to manually create hyperlinks which is incredibly tedious. So I'm wondering what the best option would be to get all of these custom made books into EPUB while keeping the original formatting and chapter links working properly? I'm doing so because sooner or later I'll be getting a new reader, and LRF will be useless then. What would be really nice would be if BookDesigner simply had an EPUB output. I find Sigil a bit of a pain to use having to always mess around with stylesheet codes and all.