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Old 06-06-2012, 09:59 AM   #7
forceps
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Calibre is great, but there is still room for improvement, the conversion speed should be one of them.

I did several txt to mobi conversion recently. Since the output is mobi, the mobi output plugin is used, and so does the SVGRasterizer, which takes rather long time to run. While running, SVGRasterize called Stylizer, which apparently go through every line of the temporary XHTML file. Those time are completely wasted because there is no svg image involved in a text file.

I also notice the speed decreases more rapidly than the growth of the size of text file. Similar speed problem happened before when use BeautifulSoup to parse large html file.
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