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Originally Posted by crossi
Audible files would seem to be more complex with more places you could hide watermarks without them being detected. Converting to a straight text file, not HTML, would seem a better bet for removing watermarks. Is there anyplace in a notepad file that a watermark could be hidden without changing the text?
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There is nothing in a plain text file but text. It's probably possible to include binary characters in text and not have it detected by something like Notepad (I haven't actually tried that so I'm not sure) but I doubt that Notepad would save those characters if it was edited.
HTML is also a plain text file and the same should apply to it but I'm not expert on HTML so there might be ways to embed binary information that I'm not aware of. Again, I doubt if Notepad could save it. Some editors might be able to.
An epub isn't just HTML. It's a zip file that can contain HTML and other types of files. Presumably some of those can be binary. Whether Calibre or other conversion tools would carry them across, I don't know.
I will say this though; if this is an important question to you do some serious research before you decide. This just might not be a simple question with a simple answer.
I just did a simple test: I dragged a jpg file (a binary file) into notepad, saved it and then checked it. It was the same size as the original. However, Irfanview, an image display program, can't view it.
Barry