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dmorris68 · 11-30-2011, 07:13 PM

Unfortunately, that didn't help much.

I thought it would at first -- I re-saved as HTML choosing the Web filtered option and noticed a different confirmation dialog, so obviously didn't choose that the first time. I opened up in Chrome and looked semi-decent. Not great but I figured there's only so much fidelity to be retained with a plain HTML conversion, and it still might be better than the PDF conversion. So I deleted the old HTML ZIP from calibre and re-imported the new one and fired up a conversion. When it finished and I previewed within Calibre, it still mangled the book's TOC but not so bad I couldn't touch it up in Sigil and if not, no big deal -- I don't use the TOC much anyway. I moved through a few pages and although things were off, it looked like it still might be a better option, although the page length seemed to be too long.

Deleted the old ePub from the NC and transferred the new one. No dice, it was horrible. This is a 223 page book, it came in at something like 681 pages in the ePub. Lines were not wrapped properly (words broken in the middle) and pages would abruptly stop a few lines into a page and continue on the next page. No images imported either, as they did from the PDF.

So back to the drawing board.

I have another idea to try -- total shot in the dark but maybe I get lucky and see an improvement. I'll report back with the results, but welcome further advice.

11-30-2011, 07:13 PM	#4
dmorris68 Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Nook Color	Unfortunately, that didn't help much. I thought it would at first -- I re-saved as HTML choosing the Web filtered option and noticed a different confirmation dialog, so obviously didn't choose that the first time. I opened up in Chrome and looked semi-decent. Not great but I figured there's only so much fidelity to be retained with a plain HTML conversion, and it still might be better than the PDF conversion. So I deleted the old HTML ZIP from calibre and re-imported the new one and fired up a conversion. When it finished and I previewed within Calibre, it still mangled the book's TOC but not so bad I couldn't touch it up in Sigil and if not, no big deal -- I don't use the TOC much anyway. I moved through a few pages and although things were off, it looked like it still might be a better option, although the page length seemed to be too long. Deleted the old ePub from the NC and transferred the new one. No dice, it was horrible. This is a 223 page book, it came in at something like 681 pages in the ePub. Lines were not wrapped properly (words broken in the middle) and pages would abruptly stop a few lines into a page and continue on the next page. No images imported either, as they did from the PDF. So back to the drawing board. I have another idea to try -- total shot in the dark but maybe I get lucky and see an improvement. I'll report back with the results, but welcome further advice.