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Originally Posted by PoP
"The Tool" can apparently assuredly remove topaz drm, but the Calibre plugin then converts the file to HTLMZ and does not preserve the AZW1 format.
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At the time, it was deemed rather pointless for the plugin to preserve a drm-free version of the original topaz format. Only Kindle devices could render them (and they could never be converted into other formats without the mess that resulted from the conversion to HTMLZ).
The plugin never even made an attempt to convert the topaz format itself. It wasn't at all feasible. It only used the underlying (and usually quite terrible and unformatted) original (sometimes OCRed) text that was only included to make it possible for the Kindle search function to still work.
I had several of them at one time. Most of them rendered quite beautifully on Kindles. You just couldn't really do anything with them other than read them.