Mobiperl Mobiperl - Perl tools for handling MobiPocket files

[tompe]

Originally Posted by mateo

I have a problem with html2mobi. the created mobi file has all of my text centered, but the original html file (checked with firefox and internet explorer) does not have the text centered. I think maybe it is because certain sections (such as chapter headings) are centered using this:

<p align="center">

could it be that html2mobi doesn't handle that tag, yet? if i replace all of those instances with the <center> tag, would that fix my problem?

Well, html2mobi does not do anything with the html concerning that so I would suspect that the html code is broken and the mobiPocket reader and firefox renders the broken code differently. If you give a short example is is possible to say more.

[mateo]

hmm, not sure what to show you... Well, here's one part.

<p align="center">C&nbsp;H&nbsp;A&nbsp;P&nbsp;T&nbsp;E&nbsp;R&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;O&nbsp;N&nbsp;E<br>

<img src="ornament.png"><br>
<font size="+2">A Mandate of Salt</font><br>
<br>
</p><font size="+2">O</font>NCE I STOOD on the bank of a rice paddy in rural Sichuan Province, and a lean and aging Chinese peasant, wearing a faded forty-year-old blue jacket issued by the Mao government in the early years of the Revolution, stood knee deep in water and apropos of absolutely nothing shouted defiantly at me, “We Chinese invented many things!”<br>

Now, according to the rules of html the part in between <p> and </p> should be centered, the other text should not. But it is. Not in firefox, but on the kindle it is (indeed, the entire book is centered). i don't know about mobipocket reader, i don't have that.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by mateo

hmm, not sure what to show you... Well, here's one part.

<p align="center">C&nbsp;H&nbsp;A&nbsp;P&nbsp;T&nbsp;E&nbsp;R&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;O&nbsp;N&nbsp;E<br>

<img src="ornament.png"><br>
<font size="+2">A Mandate of Salt</font><br>
<br>
</p><font size="+2">O</font>NCE I STOOD on the bank of a rice paddy in rural Sichuan Province, and a lean and aging Chinese peasant, wearing a faded forty-year-old blue jacket issued by the Mao government in the early years of the Revolution, stood knee deep in water and apropos of absolutely nothing shouted defiantly at me, “We Chinese invented many things!”<br>

Now, according to the rules of html the part in between <p> and </p> should be centered, the other text should not. But it is. Not in firefox, but on the kindle it is (indeed, the entire book is centered). i don't know about mobipocket reader, i don't have that.

This is not correct html. You have text outside <p></p>. And I assume <br> is not allowed in recent html. The centered text probably occur because the render ignores the </p> tag and assumed that the text belongs to the paragraph.

[tompe]

There are some flags to html2mobi which might fix this. Test --fixhtmlbr or --fixhtml.

[mateo]

fixhtml makes everything left aligned, even the parts that are supposed to be centered. which i guess is preferrable to everything being center aligned. but i think i'll try some find and replace find. if what you are saying is that </p> is being ignored because it is on the same line as a new paragraph that's not supposed to be inside the p tag, i might be able to fix this.

[mateo]

putting a new line after the </p> tag does not fix the problem. going to try some other things.

i bet i know what's going on. the kindle is assuming that everything is center aligned because the text outside of the <p> never explicitly declares it's alignment.

[tompe]

Originally Posted by mateo

fixhtml makes everything left aligned, even the parts that are supposed to be centered. which i guess is preferrable to everything being center aligned. but i think i'll try some find and replace find. if what you are saying is that </p> is being ignored because it is on the same line as a new paragraph that's not supposed to be inside the p tag, i might be able to fix this.

No, I am saying that maybe the parser is simple so it looks for the next <p> to see were the paragraph ends. The error is the that body text is not inside <p> </p>.

[mateo]

right, came to the same conclusion myself. going to try inserting <p> in the body (if that can be done with find/replace. if not, i'll simply replace the existing <p> with <center> tags instead. that should fix the problem once and for all.

[JSWolf]

How does the Mobipocket file look in Mobipocket Reader for Windows?

[nrapallo]

tompe:

I added your recent mobi2html UTF-8 improvements to my mobi2imp.pl; thank-you very much!

I did notice that there was no access to 'longtitle' yet in mobi2html, even though mobi2mobi and mobils have it. Also, I like what you did in mobi2mobi/mobi2ls to retrieve record_0.

I had an issue with the (old) 'mobi2htmi' base code in mobi2imp that a .prc failed to have an id==0 record and hence was not parsed properly. I just replaced it with your improvements in mobi2mobi/mobi2ls and it works now.

Again, thanks for the great support you have provided here!

[tompe]

Originally Posted by nrapallo

I did notice that there was no access to 'longtitle' yet in mobi2html, even though mobi2mobi and mobils have it.

How do you want to use this? The longtitle could not be added to the html code so I do not see how to use it.

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by tompe

How do you want to use this? The longtitle could not be added to the html code so I do not see how to use it.

Just as further info printed to STDERR, I guess.

[nrapallo]

tompe:

I need you advice and help understanding what this poster's solution could be trying to display images on his Cybook based on this post.

He is responding to my request for max. image size to display .cbz/.cbr comic books on the Cybook, in particular.

Just a note, I use your 'opf2mobi' to convert .html with images of default size 520 x 640 (in a .opf) to .prc as output from my PDFRead 1.8.1 conversion software.

I think the images are being limited in size somehow and result in a large white border (wasted space!).

Any inights/solutions you may have?

[tompe]

Originally Posted by nrapallo

tompe:

I need you advice and help understanding what this poster's solution could be trying to display images on his Cybook based on this post.

He is responding to my request for max. image size to display .cbz/.cbr comic books on the Cybook, in particular.

Just a note, I use your 'opf2mobi' to convert .html with images of default size 520 x 640 (in a .opf) to .prc as output from my PDFRead 1.8.1 conversion software.

I think the images are being limit$rescale_large_imagesed in size somehow and result in a large white border (wasted space!).

Any inights/solutions you may have?

Due to a bug in the Cybook the images are rescaled. I will remove the rescaling when there is an official fix for this bug from Bookeen. To avoid rescaling set $rescale_large_images in Util.pm to 0.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by tompe

Due to a bug in the Cybook the images are rescaled. I will remove the rescaling when there is an official fix for this bug from Bookeen. To avoid rescaling set $rescale_large_images in Util.pm to 0.

Burt for those of us using your software so we can do a conversion from Mobipocket format or not using a Gen3, the rescaling is not needed. Can you make an option to not rescale?