Thread: On repairing defective apnx files.
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Old 11-05-2019, 11:11 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by KevinH View Post
Yes, the "bad" ones definitely look bad and the "fix" ones look much better. I am surprised as to why this happens as in older mobi 6 and mokbi 7 internally links are filepos info (file offsets) and in newer mobi8 they encode a base 32 file offset into a character based "id-like" equivalent. Both file offsets should be quite precise and not lead to what you are seeing.

Is it just moving in the wrong direction to get the exact link text? Are the "bad" and "fix" targets in any way close together?

That is very strange.

KevinH
Hence my theory that the publisher generated EPUBs have faulty page-map or pageList. Whatever automated tools they use must have been developed on plain books without much in the way of internal links and didn't get tested on books that do. Maybe they should contract with DoItSu to supply a generalized version of his sigil plugin.

I don't think the problem is with the conversion to KF. The bad apnx is from gabage in, garbage out.

I don't have a way to get the commercial EPUBs, so I can't investigate further. (No account at EPUB retailer, library, etc. and unwillingness to have anything to do with Adobe.)
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