RTF to MOBI - bad formatting of Bullets

GullyOak · 05-31-2020, 01:08 PM

When converting an .rtf file to MOBI (for use on a Kindle Paperwhite), the Calibre program creates bullets that look okay within the MOBI viewer inside Calibre, but when I transfer the MOBI file to the Kindle, there is a line break immediately after every bullet.

The formatting in the .rtf file is as simple as simple can be: I'm using MSWord 2010 and using just the standard bulleted list, nothing weird. (This is happening to me in all of my documents with bullets.)

Any suggestions for fixing this?

Thank you!

Doitsu · 05-31-2020, 01:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GullyOak

Any suggestions for fixing this?

Try the following:

Save your document as a .docx file.
Do an AZW3 conversion.

(If you have a current Kindle model and Kindle Previewer and the KFX output plugin are installed, you can also do a kfx conversion.)

GullyOak · 05-31-2020, 02:14 PM

Thank you for the response!

Quote:

Save your document as a .docx file.

This isn't really an option because I have like 600 files, and a program generates them for me, but only in .rtf.

But I'll try the AZW3 route.

My Paperwhite Kindle is the first Paperwhite model, so it has a few years on it.

GullyOak · 05-31-2020, 02:54 PM

Okay, I tried the AZW3 format and it took care of the annoying line breaks, but now it's messing up the indentation:

--The first major bullet is fine, as are the two sub-bullets underneath it.
--But the fourth and fifth bullets, which are also major bullets and should have the same indentation (and bullet shape) as the first bullet, are now instead being treated as sub-bullets.

GullyOak · 06-01-2020, 11:07 AM

I think I'll go with the .AZW3 format and just put up with the miss-categorized bullets.
(I've since noticed, BTW, that the major-bullets-being-treated-as-sub-bullets issue was also present in the MOBI format when read on the Kindle Paperwhite 1.)

However, should anyone know of a simple setting that will fix the mistreated bullets, I'm all ears...

PeterT · 06-01-2020, 12:06 PM

Remember that calibre does not have a mobi reader; rather it does a quick conversation to Epub and displays the resulting content.

05-31-2020, 01:08 PM	#1
GullyOak Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2020 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	RTF to MOBI - bad formatting of Bullets When converting an .rtf file to MOBI (for use on a Kindle Paperwhite), the Calibre program creates bullets that look okay within the MOBI viewer inside Calibre, but when I transfer the MOBI file to the Kindle, there is a line break immediately after every bullet. The formatting in the .rtf file is as simple as simple can be: I'm using MSWord 2010 and using just the standard bulleted list, nothing weird. (This is happening to me in all of my documents with bullets.) Any suggestions for fixing this? Thank you!

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05-31-2020, 02:54 PM	#4
GullyOak Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2020 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	Okay, I tried the AZW3 format and it took care of the annoying line breaks, but now it's messing up the indentation: --The first major bullet is fine, as are the two sub-bullets underneath it. --But the fourth and fifth bullets, which are also major bullets and should have the same indentation (and bullet shape) as the first bullet, are now instead being treated as sub-bullets.

06-01-2020, 11:07 AM	#5
GullyOak Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2020 Device: Kindle Paperwhite	I think I'll go with the .AZW3 format and just put up with the miss-categorized bullets. (I've since noticed, BTW, that the major-bullets-being-treated-as-sub-bullets issue was also present in the MOBI format when read on the Kindle Paperwhite 1.) However, should anyone know of a simple setting that will fix the mistreated bullets, I'm all ears...

06-01-2020, 12:06 PM	#6
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,511 Karma: 78910202 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	Remember that calibre does not have a mobi reader; rather it does a quick conversation to Epub and displays the resulting content.

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