I'd like to build a "recipe" for
Kobo-ising O'Reilly books. The basics so far will be:
- Replace O'Reilly's core.css file with a stripped down version
- Remove a bunch of headings from the TOC when processing "Cookbook" style books
- Shrink & rotate images as required to get them to fit into the Kobo screen in portrait aspect
The current ePub to ePub conversion works, but leaves a stylesheet that is far too complex. The Kobo takes tens of seconds to switch between chapters. In addition, all images are simply scaled down to fit: diagrams lose information due to being squeezed to fit landscape-style in the portrait page of the Kobo.
Is this something I should be trying within Calibre, or should I just stick to writing my own stand-alone filter to do the Kobo-isation?