Has anyone had any problems with things appearing fine on the Calibre preview and then not so much fine on the reader? I was having difficulties with 'liberated' ereader files missing punctuation, and I tried converting to ePud first, tried telling it this was a book designer HTML, tried utf-8 and cp-2505 and every other code suggested, and finally I thought I had it working. But while it looked fine in Calibre on preview, there were still errors on the reader.
I am on a Mac and did not have access to Book Designer, but someone finally suggested I check the file in another epub viewer. So I opened up one of my ebooks in Stanza, exported it as RTF from there, opened it back up in Neo Office and it looked fine. I wanted to take out the extra paragraph marks and could not do that in Neo office because its find and replace would not let me search for invisible characters. So I opened it up in Pages and used that to get rid of the double paragraph breaks. Then I went to export, and there was no HTML option, so I exported it (again) as RTF, went back (again) to Neo Office, saved it as HTML etc. Then went back to Calibre, deleted the original book, imported my new HTML file as the book, converted that to LRF and put it on the Sony (for some reason my Sony reads RTF fonts as tiny, so Kovid suggested I only use HTML). Put it on my reader and everything looks good, but I want to get through reading one book like this to make extra-sure everything is fine before I spend more time converting things as this process is quite labour-intensive
Has anyone else encountered this 'fine in Calibre viewer and not fine on reader' problem before? Does anyone know why saving it from Stanza instead of Calibre is making such a difference? And do any Mac users have any tips for streamlining my conversion process a little bit? If this process really will give me decent books, it will be fine to do one-offs this way once I have my backlog converted, I suppose. But my backlog is about 40 exisiting books right now and this will take me some time to convert if I have to do such a labor-intensive process...