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Old 04-10-2010, 02:12 AM   #18
lmittell
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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby View Post
You skipped the conversion to PDB.

What we are trying to do is force Calibre to use certain methods that produce the
result we want.

It is important to have Calibre first import using the HTML decoder then create a
PDB formated ebook, then import the PDB file (using the pdb decoder) and then
create the epub, with the Jbook 5-inch output preference set.

It only takes a few minuets.

Luck;
Ken
I must have an inadequate grasp of your suggestions, because I'm going around in a circle (or spiral, perhaps).

The first progression of steps (always using Calibre) per your suggestion was:

mobi ==> pdb ==> epub (formatted for JBL)

The second, per your further suggestion was, starting from the epub derived immediately above:

epub ==> html (via unzipping epub) ==> epub (formatted for JBL)

Both methods produced good epubs, but each file came up a cropper on the JBL, yielding the dread "file too big" error.

Are you saying the last set should have been as follows?

epub ==> html (via unzip) ==> pdb ==> epub

This whole business of converting to an epub, then using it to so circuitously produce another epub seems a little weird, but I'm fine with whatever works.


Cheers,
Larry
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