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donB006 · 04-02-2012, 12:18 AM

I have been experimenting with a program for making pdfs from ebooks. The program is called pisa or xhtml2pdf. The html output from the calibre conversion to htmlz can be used as input to this program.

I am interested in this program because the output does not have the chopped text at page breaks like the QPrinter program used by calibre. The QPrinter is made to image a web page or an html ebook exactly as the page appears in a browser and so the html ebook is not reformatted for printing and causes the text to be chopped at page breaks.

I have used xhtml2pdf to make a pdf from the htmlz format made by calibre when I used the "tag" choice for the internal CSS. This is almost usable already for reading a pdf in my Kindle DXG. I need to experiment more on resizing the fonts to my preference either using calibre or the xhtml2pdf especially to produce pdfs suited for reading on my Iriver Story HD. Remember there are a lot of options to put on the command line if the defaults for xhtml2pdf are not perfect.

I like to read well made pdf files in my ereaders especially when the ereaders have poor support for epub or mobi files concerning fonts, margins, layout, etc.

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04-02-2012, 12:18 AM	#4
donB006 Connoisseur Posts: 86 Karma: 186294 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: Kindle k3G 3.4.2; DXG 2.5.8; DXG 3.1; Iriver Story HD	converting to pdf I have been experimenting with a program for making pdfs from ebooks. The program is called pisa or xhtml2pdf. The html output from the calibre conversion to htmlz can be used as input to this program. I am interested in this program because the output does not have the chopped text at page breaks like the QPrinter program used by calibre. The QPrinter is made to image a web page or an html ebook exactly as the page appears in a browser and so the html ebook is not reformatted for printing and causes the text to be chopped at page breaks. I have used xhtml2pdf to make a pdf from the htmlz format made by calibre when I used the "tag" choice for the internal CSS. This is almost usable already for reading a pdf in my Kindle DXG. I need to experiment more on resizing the fonts to my preference either using calibre or the xhtml2pdf especially to produce pdfs suited for reading on my Iriver Story HD. Remember there are a lot of options to put on the command line if the defaults for xhtml2pdf are not perfect. I like to read well made pdf files in my ereaders especially when the ereaders have poor support for epub or mobi files concerning fonts, margins, layout, etc. .