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Old 06-25-2010, 02:34 PM   #2200
nook.life
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
Run your recipe with this:
Code:
ebook-convert explosm.recipe explosm --test -vv > explosm.txt
Then use FireFox to look at the results. You'll see why you have margin problems. You've got your main image in a table, and you're putting other images above it (to the left once you've rotated your device). You don't want that iphone app image or the two black/white images. Look at the images directory in the explosm folder created with the above and look at the page source. I'd strip the extra images and remove the table.
Ok, so I am pretty new at this and really do not know much about coding, so it took me about an hour just to figure out where on earth to enter the ebook-convert command (first i placed it in the code, then tried to place it somewhere in the settings, then spent forever trying to figure out how to locate the calibre command line until I realized you simply just had to start cmd). However, I still cant get it to work as I keep getting a "ValueError: Failed to find builtin recipe:explosm". I then realized I probably had to be in the right folder, but neither the calibre library nor the calibre2\resources program folder worked.

Sorry for asking, i know it's a stupid question, and I feel really lame I'm just having a hard time grasping how all this works, I've never dealt with code or even the cmd in my life (figuring out that I needed to use cd command to go into folders also took a while...). Thanks for all the help.
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