[davidfor]

Originally Posted by M4R5

It does irritate me when people spend two seconds on a subject and think they know everything. If you had the full books, and flicked in to the end of the first chapter, you'd see that from that point onwards, all the pictures are missing.

Firstly, I didn't spend two seconds on it. I spent an hour or two looking at it. And I have spent a lot more time over the last year or so on converting books to be read on my Kobo devices.

As I said, I couldn't see any real differences in the formatting of the original and converted versions. There was a little extra space between some sections. I think most of those are, as PeterT suggested, differences in how the files within epubs are handled. They always have a page break at the start of each file. There might have been some extra file splitting that could be adjusted with the appropriate options.

As to missing pictures, your original post didn't say they were only missing after chapter one. It is very unfortunate that the previews didn't show this. Though the DSLR preview does have two chapters and the pictures seem to be there. Unfortunately, I am not gong to spend money on books I have no interest in to try to sort this out.

But you've missed the whole point of the post anyway. I didn't say the conversions were unreadable, I said they weren't accurate and I gave a number of differences, such as line spacing.

Unfortunately, conversions aren't perfect. And especially not for books like these with a lot of formatting. And there are differences in how the different formats specify things that are not necessarily directly translatable. Plus there are a lot of options that will fiddle with things like line spacing. That means that you may need to do multiple conversions with different options to get the best version.

And just to pick the problems you mentioned in the first post:

Extra spaces between lines

I only saw extra spaces between sections such as before a picture or the text attached to the picture. And some of these might have been caused by the need to keep the picture on the same page as the text.

Missing spaces between lines

I didn't see any.

Wrong justification

There definitely were no justification problems

Wrong indentation

Anything that was indented in the original was indented after the conversion. The exact amount might have changed but wasn't noticeable.

Missing pictures

All pictures were there in the preview.

Here is a summary of this thread so far:

OP: "Books don't quite convert right. Some formatting is different"
Reply: "When I convert books only some formatting is different. This is great."
OP: "Please never reply to one of my posts again"

And then I explained that I'd deliberately broken the formatting in my post to look like a typical Kindle > ePub conversion. And you didn't really get that either.

I did read that and I did understand that. But, as I said the conversion of the previews for both previews was actually quite good. I didn't see any of the problems you tried to show with the post.

My post was not intended to say that you were not seeing problems. Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce them. Maybe if I had the full books I could. Maybe it is a problem further into the books or a problem caused by the size of them. I can't tell from here and you didn't actually say. A report like yours and a response like mine isn't uncommon. One of the ideas is to discuss what is going on and try to improve it. The improvements might be suggesting changes in the conversion options chosen, recommendations on how to fix things after the conversion or feedback to the developers to improve things.