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Originally Posted by JeffOYB
Any way to get Calibre to convert EPUB to something Kindle can use in a way that doesn't shrink the display size of the images?
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Hi:
This would be easier if there were one thread for your issues, and we stuck to it.
It's
not Calibre.
It's the inherent differences between ePUB and MOBI. You're asking Calibre to make up for the lack of mobi-centric coding in your ePUB. The two formats are
NOT the same, despite their similarities, and
how they handle images is significantly different. Not to mention the
millions of KF7 devices out there, that handle images in yet
another different way.
Calibre is a very nice tool for
DIY, for-yourself/your own personal library-only conversion.
It is NOT a formatting tool. Kovid himself would tell you that, if you ask him, and you are asking it to do things for which it is not suited and not capable.
It's like your assertion that "anchors worked!" Anchors
don't work, as it happens, outside of the iOS environment, and they most
certainly don't work in MOBI. There are
thousands of factors that go into making a commercial-quality eBook. Knowing what works in one environment, versus the other, and knowing how to do those things, is just part of it.
I'm not trying to snark you here, but just running a file through the sausage-making machine
isn't going to fix those things. Calibre's software is, in many ways, a substitute for knowledge--knowing how to code HTML, the differences between ePUB and MOBI, etc.--but it can only compensate for that lack of knowledge
up to a point. Like ALL software, with Calibre, it's GIGO.
There's no magic button, in Calibre, as far as I know, that's going to write media-queries for you to solve your image problem. As I don't use it, I suppose it's possible that someone who does will jump in here and say, "oh, yeah, you can do X," but I doubt it. The coding that addresses image-display issues, in MOBI, will make an ePUB commercially unusable, as it would cause that ePUB to fail ePUBcheck, which I believe I mentioned about 5-6 posts ago. I would be quite, quite surprised to see Calibre have some automagic function that writes media queries FOR you.
Sorry, but...that's pretty much how it is.
Hitch