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Old 04-27-2010, 06:11 AM   #1
mike_bike_kite
Digitally confused
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learning to convert docs

I'm a bit new at this and have been trying to convert a few pdf books to epub to read in FBReader on my old Nokia N800. The pdf looks fine on my computer and on my N800 but I wanted to learn to convert using Calibre. I know regexp's etc but I don't understand these XPATH lines and can't see how they apply to non html files.

Problems I'm having:
  • Partial lines seem to get treated as a new paragraph so I get this
    Quote:

    the passengers rushed to view the cosmic visitor that had fallen from

    the sky. But it was impossible to examine the burning hot meteorite

    in any detail. Later, when the meteorite cooled, it was trenched
  • Chapters aren't recognised - obviously I need to enter some kind of format but I'm not sure what. Chapters Look like this:
    Quote:
    7. This is the new chapter
  • I tried copying an image from the web and pasting it into Calibre on the meta info page. It showed the image here but didn't seem to display the image later. Perhaps I'm missing something?
  • I'm using defaults for both input and output devices - is this a good idea for a non ereader device like an N800? it has a wide screen 800*600 ( I think).
Thanks for any advice or useful links

Mike
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