Hi all,
I'm working on learning Calibre to get some documents onto my iPod touch. So far I'm quite impressed with Calibre and what it brings to organizing and managing eBooks - but I'm having a little trouble I'm not sure how to handle.
I did download the demo html zip file and ran it thru the conversion and everything looked great.
I took a file that I have that is a pdf - if I have calibre convert it to epub, it converts fine - but as everyone knows - looses the TOC. So in my desire to maintain a TOC (since the books I have that I want to keep with me are reference books, it's kind of important to me
) I obtained, installed, and used pdftohtml, having it create a "complex" html document
ie: pdftohtml -c mypdfile.pdf
Which generates a html file for each page, all of the images are in their separate files (for this particular pdf, they are .png) and there is a index page.
I loaded the index page into calibre and asked it to convert - after a brief period the epub book was ready - it converted, TOC worked, etc. - but I found that on the pages, the images were no longer in their proper location.
I looked at the source code of a given page, and I have a feeling its due to how the pdftohtml generated it - see here a sample of the code:
Code:
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<DIV style="position:absolute;top:1079;left:108"><nobr><span class="ft0">8</span></nobr></DIV>
<DIV style="position:absolute;top:107;left:181"><nobr><span class="ft15">3. Click on your server's disclosure triangle in the table on the left and click on</span></nobr></DIV>
<DIV style="position:absolute;top:128;left:194"><nobr><span class="ft28">the Open Directory service to view its status. Click on the Settings button in</span></nobr></DIV>
<DIV style="position:absolute;top:150;left:194"><nobr><span class="ft29">the toolbar.</span></nobr></DIV>
<DIV style="position:absolute;top:489;left:181"><nobr><span class="ft39">4. Click on the "Change" button to open the Service Configuration Assistant.</span></nobr></DIV>
<DIV style="position:absolute;top:741;left:181"><nobr><span class="ft51">5. Choose to create an "Open Directory Master" and provide a username and</span></nobr></DIV>
<DIV style="position:absolute;top:762;left:194"><nobr><span class="ft56">password to administer the new domain.</span></nobr></DIV>
<DIV style="position:absolute;top:1036;left:181"><nobr><span class="ft70">6. In the third pane (Master Domain Info), you will be prompted for a Kerberos</span></nobr></DIV>
<DIV style="position:absolute;top:1057;left:194"><nobr><span class="ft82">Realm name and search base. The Kerberos realm name is arbitrary, but is</span></nobr></DIV>
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as one can see, the divs are set with specific positions, and I'm guessing this is what is causing the problem.
if I convert without the -c, I don't get the pics.
Any suggestions on how to better convert my pdfs to html prior to importing so that I can somewhat keep formatting, and more importantly keep my TOC, I'd be more then willing to try.
I should note, I'm using OSX.
