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Originally Posted by KevinH
This is not easy to guarantee or even do especially with very different mobi and mobi8 pieces. Also, since the fonts are stored alongside and intermixed with the image files, they must all be know in advance and available when the older mobi is created (even though they come from the KF8 side - like fonts).
If you could guarantee that, then putting together a standalone python script to merge them is just not that hard to do.
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I think I would find such a script useful. I have found it possible to achieve the results I want through official methods, but I could at the very least reduce the file size a bit by removing unnecessary spans and such from the mobi code. Running kindlestrip already makes the result unofficial (and helps far more, of course).
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I'd be interested in splitting the the mobi from the KF8 (if only for personal use). Even if the KF8-only file had to include a one-page, mobi stub saying; "Your device can't read this ebook" message.
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If the python script had an option to choose whether to use the mobi or KF8 source for the images and fonts, it would allow it to work with pairs where one includes more images and fonts than the other (as long as the ones that were shared were first and in the same order). That would allow something like a mobi stub with no images. I'd like to be able to distribute something like that, with the stub including a link to where the mobi version could be downloaded.