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GrannyGrump · 11-06-2012, 10:07 PM

I am throwing this question out into cyberspace, with little hope, as it looks like the IMP format has been mostly abandoned.

A few titles in the library that I want are only in IMP format. So I tried this converter, but with mixed results.

I "installed" IMP GUI Converter v 1.36 as instructed --- mscott161 stated that all that is required is the ConvertIMPGUI executable and the ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib DLL. I launched the GUI and loaded a book into it. I CAN get the text extraction, but the HTML tool on the menu is grayed out / disabled.

The text extraction pulled out the text well enough, but apparently cannot deal with unicode characters. Lots of question marks/null glyphs for curly quotes, mdashes, diacritics, etc. I don't know if the HTML extraction would have better results, because it is disabled and not usable.

Any suggestions how to get the HTML extraction working?

11-06-2012, 10:07 PM	#67
GrannyGrump Obsessively Dedicated... Posts: 3,200 Karma: 34977896 Join Date: May 2011 Location: JAPAN (US expatriate) Device: Sony PRS-T2, ADE on PC	NO HTML EXTRACTION AVAILABLE I am throwing this question out into cyberspace, with little hope, as it looks like the IMP format has been mostly abandoned. A few titles in the library that I want are only in IMP format. So I tried this converter, but with mixed results. I "installed" IMP GUI Converter v 1.36 as instructed --- mscott161 stated that all that is required is the ConvertIMPGUI executable and the ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib DLL. I launched the GUI and loaded a book into it. I CAN get the text extraction, but the HTML tool on the menu is grayed out / disabled. The text extraction pulled out the text well enough, but apparently cannot deal with unicode characters. Lots of question marks/null glyphs for curly quotes, mdashes, diacritics, etc. I don't know if the HTML extraction would have better results, because it is disabled and not usable. Any suggestions how to get the HTML extraction working? Last edited by GrannyGrump; 11-06-2012 at 10:15 PM.