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Old 12-28-2010, 08:02 PM   #9
Gdzhlpr
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Device: Nook Color
Nook converting pdf to html to epub formatting template

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Originally Posted by eping View Post
You can try ePub Maker.
Import from Word, and support tables
I came here looking for a fix on my conversion issues. your margin suggestions gave me an idea. and crossing myself I think I have finally fixed and have a solution (for me) anyways.

I use ABBYY FineReader corporate and have set the options as follows:
Open PDF
Save as HTML
Formatted Text in dropdown

OPTIONS SAVE TAB
HTML TAB
Keep line breakes
keep headers and footers
generate a table of contents checked
automatically create files based on headings

after typing up a wordpad doc with all of my settings I learned I can auto save in ABBYY but not in calibre so time was not wasted. Here are my settings I changed for Calibre: in the preference tab
Preference Defaults

SENDING BOOKS TO DEVICES:

My Files/Books/{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index} - {title} - {authors}

Above line is how to send books to the device in calibre per the mobiread forums.
I added tags so the new line is

My Files/Books/{author_sort}/{series}/{series_index} - {title} - {authors} - {tags}

COMMON OPTIONS
look & Feel
utf-8

Structure Detection
Preprocess input file to possibly improve structure detection

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Force use of auto-generated Table of Contents is checked

To bad Calibre doesnt let you save these settings too. However I did see a plugin tab where I can create and save a template so that may actually be a possiblility.

I also discovered the ABBYY hot folder: nifty little folder I can drop pdf files into and it will automatically perform the above formatting. keep in mind there will be no spell check so count on some errors. I just hope it all works as set up and I don't jinks this process by bragging here. If I searched a little more I may have found this information. One thing I still may change is the min font size on the output file in calibre. I may set it at 10 or 12 since the reason for the NOOKCOLOR in the first place is print size

good luck, and happy formatting I will post back with any additional changes
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