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Originally Posted by MagoriaBooks
I've already tried that, Koland. Unfortunately despite following the style guide, the conversion process produced inconsistent output. Do you think (assuming the hick-up can be resolved somehow) their automatic conversion would manage the illustrations alright? Would it not require manual adjustment?
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I suspect most of those who have managed to get the illustrations correct have tweaked the HTML a bit.
One of the most successful methods seems to be:
Save your doc as TXT (or cut/paste into notepad).
Start a brand new doc (this dumps all old coding out of the word doc) and paste in the book from the TXT file. Add minimal styles to accomplish your formatting (indent first line of paragraph, but only a tiny amount, add style for chapter headings, generate your TOC). Add in your images, let them flow with the text (don't try placing on pages). Save to HTML.
From the HTML, do any further formatting you might need. When I create mobi by hand, I go thru and dump all the font change info (other than bold/italic), double check the labels, add the html code for new page before chapter changes (and I let mobicreator add the table of contents and cover page, as well as set the metadata, so none of that is in the HTML file).
Depending on your images, you may need to consider resizing them before adding to your document.
Also, since they are (presumably) insets into the original page format and not part of the book (since there is quite a bit of text with each), I'd probably consider using the illustrations in the original locations, but moving all the accompanying text into an end note (which Kindle handles well, even if it would not be there in a Kindle sample). That solves the problem of the text just being jumbled up into the middle of the story.