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JSWolf · 03-21-2012, 02:08 PM

The meatgrinder is as bad as it's made out to be. It produces awful code. And some of the time, that awful code prevents readers from changing thing like margins, line spacing, fonts, colors, font sizes and more. So while the ePub from the meatgrinder may look OK with publisher settings on, it may not really be OK.

As has been said many times on MR...

JUST BECAUSE IT PASSES EPUBCHECK/FLIGHTCREW DOES NOT MEAN IT'S GOING TO WORK AS EXPECTED.

Then going into the ePub to fix the problem(s) may not be so easy because the code is so poor. So yes, the meatgrinder is atrocious.

03-21-2012, 02:08 PM	#21
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 79,800 Karma: 146391129 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	The meatgrinder is as bad as it's made out to be. It produces awful code. And some of the time, that awful code prevents readers from changing thing like margins, line spacing, fonts, colors, font sizes and more. So while the ePub from the meatgrinder may look OK with publisher settings on, it may not really be OK. As has been said many times on MR... JUST BECAUSE IT PASSES EPUBCHECK/FLIGHTCREW DOES NOT MEAN IT'S GOING TO WORK AS EXPECTED. Then going into the ePub to fix the problem(s) may not be so easy because the code is so poor. So yes, the meatgrinder is atrocious. Last edited by JSWolf; 03-21-2012 at 02:10 PM.