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Old 05-29-2014, 11:04 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Device based epub renderers are rather underpowered. You canot expevt arbitrarily complex epub to always render well in them. The trick I use for these cases is to convert to mobi and then convert the mobi to epub, which almost always dumbs down the markup enough.

Since MOBI is html 3.2 you will lose any advanced formatting in the html.
I wonder whether the key word here is 'arbitrarily', and whether it might not be a good idea to use the trick you describe before the file is released. After all, I suspect that most of us use a 'device based epub renderer'.

Failing that, perhaps it might be a good idea to let people who use a device based epub renderer know of the trick before they download the file.
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