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Agama · 10-21-2018, 11:55 AM

@JSWolf: Thanks for the suggestion. KindleUnpack certainly gives a cleaner result and the post-extraction tidyup is minimal but it does take a lot longer than calibre conversion and is more manual.

If I was retired and had the time then I would definitely use unpacking but right now the pragmatic approach is conversion: calibre gets the job done quickly and the final displayed results are just as good as the unpack method.

Filename tidyup is simple enough as I have a small epub post-processor plugin which can do this, (as well as applying a set of predefined regexes).

The stylesheet rem unit is subtly different to em and should be able to be left as it is, provided that the ePub 2 spec implements it. A blanket change of rem to em could mess up the rendering.

10-21-2018, 11:55 AM	#12
Agama Guru Posts: 776 Karma: 2751519 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: UK Device: PW2, Nexus7	@JSWolf: Thanks for the suggestion. KindleUnpack certainly gives a cleaner result and the post-extraction tidyup is minimal but it does take a lot longer than calibre conversion and is more manual. If I was retired and had the time then I would definitely use unpacking but right now the pragmatic approach is conversion: calibre gets the job done quickly and the final displayed results are just as good as the unpack method. Filename tidyup is simple enough as I have a small epub post-processor plugin which can do this, (as well as applying a set of predefined regexes). The stylesheet rem unit is subtly different to em and should be able to be left as it is, provided that the ePub 2 spec implements it. A blanket change of rem to em could mess up the rendering. Last edited by Agama; 10-21-2018 at 12:05 PM.