Calibre purple text?

[ddandb]

When I convert a RTF to EBUP using Calibre the text is black when I view it with the Calibre viewer. (and that's what I want)
When I convert an RTF to MOBI the text always turns out purple.

Any idea what is going on here and how to fix it?
I'm using Microsoft Word to export the RTF text.

[itimpi]

Just for interest how are you viewing the mobi file? Since a kindle is not a color device it would seem to be difficult to see the text is purple

[ddandb]

Originally Posted by itimpi

Just for interest how are you viewing the mobi file? Since a kindle is not a color device it would seem to be difficult to see the text is purple

With Calibre.

[itimpi]

Originally Posted by ddandb

With Calibre.

The Calibre viewer is really only an ePub viewer. When you ask it to view a mobi file, then under the covers it first runs a mobi->ePub conversion. As a result the Calibre viewer should not be taken as indicative of how the file would look on a real Kindle. You should use the Kindle Previewer program from Amazon if you want an accurate indication of how the mobi file would look on a Kindle.

Having said that, it does not really explain why you are getting purple text in your particular case. There must be something in the rtf file that is triggering it. Have you tried rtf->ePub->mobi to see if you get the same results?

Another possibility might be to save the file as HTML from Word using the option to save the file as "Web Page (filtered)". You could then check if that displays correctly using a browser, and if it does add the HTML file to Calibre and convert that. If not, then examining the HTML should help identify the cause. Since mobi is internally based on HTML that route is less likely to introduce conversion artifacts.

Of course whether you want to be bothered depends on what you want the mobi for in the first place? That was not mentioned.