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Originally Posted by Midnight
dwanthny - Thank you for the info. What I am doing now is just making the conversion in version 5.14 where it works properly, then importing the finished lrf into the newest version. Unfortunately, I can't just use the older version since it does not recognize the PRS-600. I may give the debug a try as I am very interested in what it is doing to the file that is different than in earlier versions.
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That seems like a workable solution. If I recall correctly when calibre evolved from 0.5.14 to 0.6.? the conversion processes were all changed to a plug-in system. This allowed maximum flexibility going forward. The down side to this is the amount of hours needed to refine a plug-in to the ability of the original LRF conversion wasn't deemed worth it since the world was headed away from the LRF format.
There were countless threads and discussions covering this back then. On top of the small decline in quality of the conversion to LRF there was no easy way to convert LRF files to other formats. After many months of not having the time to write a way to convert LRF Kovid found himself stuck at a airport and wrote the main conversion code (in a few hours) from LRF to html so you could change to any format. Afterwards there were a few refinements in the code and then LRF was put to rest.
It is possible to
easily run from source and take a closer look at the LRF plugin. Maybe with a little (a lot) of effort you could be the savior of all of the LRF devotees. If you can refine the conversion I'm sure many folks would welcome the update.
Personally I use larger fonts to avoid reading glasses and full justification looks horrible when using larger fonts, especially on a reader that doesn't support hyphenation. When all I used was LRF I also used a hack that changed LRF viewing from full justification to left justification.
Because I'm OK with left justification I convert everything to epub for future compatibility. This allows me to fine tune any hitch in my outputted book by opening the epub in Sigil and doing simple find/replace or css tweaks to make the book the way I want it.