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Originally Posted by VydorScope
As I am a software developer by trade I decide to take a couple fast minutes to look in to all the complaints about conversions.
I pulled 2 epub's off Smashwords and looked at the source in NotePad++ and I do not see what the problem is. Looks like Smashwords uses Open Office + TidyHTML to do its work and the files look clean and simple. The CSS was basic and would have been easy to change if I wanted to.
So then I opened one of my .doc files, saved it as .rtf and converted to epub with Calibre. Calibre did not do as good of a job as Smashwords does. I do not know if that is a artifact of the rtf step in between, or something else, but Calibre was much more verbose then needed. A million times better then if I had saved the file to HTML via MS-Word, but not as good as Smashwords does.
So I guess, I am still not seeing the problem. Ah well...
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Well, quality of conversion will depends of lots of stuff. Quality of the source, how close are the format converted from and converted to, quality of the software...
I don't mind conversion if there are good enough not to be spotted at first glance.
But, the editor is payed to do its job, and code quality is part of the job... Just converting without doing some minimal quality check feels cheap.