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llasram · 01-18-2009, 10:34 PM

Early adopters,

Kovid has just released calibre version 0.4.129, which integrates at beta quality my support for generating Mobipocket format books. This feature is currently accessible from your favorite command-line shell via the expected ‘oeb2mobi’ and ‘any2mobi’ with the usual options (plus a few new ones).

Benefits and/or failings over other Mobipocket-generation tools:

Full markup conversion. Normalizes all input into Mobipocket-specific, pure-formatting markup for as faithful rendering in Mobipocket readers as possible.
Standards-compliant input over proprietary extensions. No support for Mobipocket-custom tags in input, but will generate Mobipocket-specific output for corresponding OPS and OPF features such as page breaks and non-linear content (e.g., footnotes).
SVG rasterization. Here for the first time, but soon to appear in other format converters near you, full rasterization of SVG vector graphics. Tell all your friends – SVG is now safe and fun for the whole family of e-book readers!
In-content TOC generation. Ensures that generated books have a TOC, whether they want one or not. Uses standard metadata TOC (OPF 2.0 NCX etc.) if an in-content TOC is not provided by the source.

Try it out now, and post your bug reports to the calibre trac!

01-18-2009, 10:34 PM	#1
llasram Reticulator of Tharn Posts: 618 Karma: 400000 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: EST Device: Sony PRS-505	Mobipocket output Early adopters, Kovid has just released calibre version 0.4.129, which integrates at beta quality my support for generating Mobipocket format books. This feature is currently accessible from your favorite command-line shell via the expected ‘oeb2mobi’ and ‘any2mobi’ with the usual options (plus a few new ones). Benefits and/or failings over other Mobipocket-generation tools: Full markup conversion. Normalizes all input into Mobipocket-specific, pure-formatting markup for as faithful rendering in Mobipocket readers as possible. Standards-compliant input over proprietary extensions. No support for Mobipocket-custom tags in input, but will generate Mobipocket-specific output for corresponding OPS and OPF features such as page breaks and non-linear content (e.g., footnotes). SVG rasterization. Here for the first time, but soon to appear in other format converters near you, full rasterization of SVG vector graphics. Tell all your friends – SVG is now safe and fun for the whole family of e-book readers! In-content TOC generation. Ensures that generated books have a TOC, whether they want one or not. Uses standard metadata TOC (OPF 2.0 NCX etc.) if an in-content TOC is not provided by the source. Try it out now, and post your bug reports to the calibre trac!