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Originally Posted by ficbot
I downloaded (among others) the Roger Rabbit book, and sampled the first chapter, Super-fun story, abysmal formatting. Periods where no periods should be, and at least three font sizes which change at random intervals. Is there any Calibre setting I can tweak to reconvert the book and at least fix the font size changes?
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I bought 36 books and most of them are previously out of print books. Out of them maybe 8 were formatted correctly, had chapters properly marked and had a workable TOC. I spent the last two days working on them in Calibre. Thank goodness for Calibre's heuristic processing and search and replace feature's that saved me some work on some of them. The really bad ones I had to use the rtf version in Word to fix them up and get them ereader friendly. One thing I noticed was the variety of quotations used in one book curly, straight and then some even switched from double quote to UK type quotes then back again.
You could try Calibre's search and replace and if it's font tags causing this you can remove those by using a regular expression like <font([^>]+)> and then the second search & replace would just be </font> and both replace boxes leave blank.
This is what I did with several of the ones I bought. There might be another way but I am no Calibre expert.
I haven't even began looking at the free ones I grabbed yet or had time to read anything I bought or snagged for free because I have been too busy fixing poorly formatted books I paid for.
I guess from now on I will have to look at the samples more carefully before purchasing specially with indie authors. The ones I bought only one of them did not need so much work.