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Originally Posted by kiwidude
So i guess what I could do is write a plugin that a bit like book conversions will run in the background on your ePub books to apply various transformations. It would work on your selected books, and give you a very simple dialog of checkboxes of stuff you want it to do with select none and all buttons. Then I would make sure each of those functions is coded to work independently. Then if it is deemed appropriate in future this whole plugin could just become an item on the tweak submenu. And the existing tweak dialog could offer similar functionality reusing that part of the code.
Then it will be up to Quality Check as to how many of these things it offers "Check" functions for. It may only be a subset, the two plugins can grow independently.
How does that sound for a plan?
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Sounds like a good plan to me. If you're willing to take on the initial effort of creation that's great, as I don't envision myself having much time the next few weeks to jump on this one. However if you've put the basic framework in place I can look into tying other 'safe' pieces of the conversion engine into the plugin.
@JackieW, part of the thinking behind this is to address a feature request that you opened a while back, your 'epub conversion lite' idea:
http://oldbugs.calibre-ebook.com/ticket/8252
The idea is to be able to automatically do any individual function that Calibre's conversion pipeline allows while avoiding doing a 'full' conversion. This isn't really possible with any other ebook formats, but since epub is zipped OEB and OEB is Calibre's intermediate format for all conversions it's an option in this case.