Thread: How to do centering
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Old 02-28-2010, 08:30 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by sjohnson717 View Post
Let's look at a use scenario: I have 200+ books in RTF format. When reading the book on Kindle I find a typo. Because I'm anal, I want to fix the typo. I'd like to go into Calibre, open the source file, change the typos, save, and rebuild the epub output.

Today I have to open in Word, save the RTF, then save as HTML, then manually add the HTM to calibre which converts it to a Zip file, and then convert to ePub or Mobi.

I'd be willing to use another source file format (such as HTML) but I still have the Zip problem.

If I convert the RTF file, I don't get centering. If I convert to HTML, I get centering but now I have added a file management problem with a source file, plus a couple of interim files (HTM and ZIP), before I get to an output file.
Seems like the best solution is to convert the RTF to ePub, clean up the ePub and then convert the ePub to Mobipocket. Then if you do find any errors, you can go into the ePub and fix them very easily and convert once again back to Mobipocket. It's all quite easily done with Calibre.
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