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DairyKnight · 09-21-2009, 03:18 AM

Hi all, I'm working on a tool to generate mobipocket files on Mac. (I know
mobiperl could do that... but there're reasons I'll need my own...)

As I go through the mobi files, I found that between the raw html files and the images, there's always a 2 bytes padding with 0, anyone knows why? Or I can simply specify 'first img record' to be 2?

Second thing is that I found in every mobi file there's a trailing record starting with 'FLIS', anyone knows what it is?

Thanks in advance.

09-21-2009, 03:18 AM	#1
DairyKnight Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 2600 Join Date: Oct 2008 Device: PRS-505	Trailing & Padding of Mobi Pocket files Hi all, I'm working on a tool to generate mobipocket files on Mac. (I know mobiperl could do that... but there're reasons I'll need my own...) As I go through the mobi files, I found that between the raw html files and the images, there's always a 2 bytes padding with 0, anyone knows why? Or I can simply specify 'first img record' to be 2? Second thing is that I found in every mobi file there's a trailing record starting with 'FLIS', anyone knows what it is? Thanks in advance.