Having problem with a book format

danwdoo · 11-16-2010, 01:33 PM

Hello,
I'm having problems with a book being too wide to fit on the screen of my eReader (Sony 505). The book is Seaborn, and is available as a free download from here:

http://www.saltwaterwitch.com/freeseaborn.php

The version I am downloading is the html one. Even in Calibre, after converting to EPUB, the text is too wide for Calibre's built in viewer (unless I expand the width a large amount). Is the a problem with the book itself, or is it a setting/issue with Calibre?

Thanks!

kovidgoyal · 11-16-2010, 01:34 PM

use the linearize tables conversion option

danwdoo · 11-16-2010, 01:52 PM

Thanks for the quick response!
I tried the setting, reconverted the book, but it did not make a difference on the eReader, or in the Calibre viewer. The text is still too wide.

janvanmaar · 11-16-2010, 02:13 PM

I have just tried and get the html correctly converted to mobi. You can try html->mobi->epub...

danwdoo · 11-16-2010, 02:26 PM

I tried html -> mobi -> epub and sure enough it seems to have worked perfectly. I'll have to remember that trick in the future!

Thanks!

DoctorOhh · 11-16-2010, 11:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by danwdoo

I'm having problems with a book being too wide to fit on the screen of my eReader (Sony 505).

@Kovid - The creator of this book set two <div> tags

1. <div style="width:650px;">

2. <div style="width:700px;">

Since this is wider then the PRS-505 and most other ereaders the resultant conversion to epub set a width wider then the screen. In thousands of books this is the first one I ran into like this. Since it is literally 1 in 1000s it may not be worth the effort but is there some way to limit or remove all "too wide" width attributes? This was not a table.

It seems like the limits of mobi causes these tags to be ignored or removed in a conversion to mobi.

kovidgoyal · 11-17-2010, 11:03 AM

It's certainly possible to remove width settings on tags (or at least reduce them to the screen width of the output profile). Open a ticket for it with a sample and I will get to it when I have the time.

ldolse · 11-17-2010, 10:35 PM

Odds are that this is because an online pdftohtml utility was used, I've seen a few that create more accurate output than what Calibre's current pdftohtml can do, but they use a lot of hardcoded divs like these to maintain the original layouts more precisely (unfortunately simultaneously killing reflow)

Some examples:
http://convertpdftohtml.net/
http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf...l/default.aspx

kovidgoyal · 11-18-2010, 12:27 PM

Yeah I've seen that (actually calibre's pdftohtml can do that as well, it doesn't, because I am interested in reflowing PDFs not making reproducing them in HTML). All those online converters probably use the same pdftohtml from poppler that calibre does.

11-16-2010, 01:33 PM	#1
danwdoo Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 2584958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Texas Device: Kindle PW2	Having problem with a book format Hello, I'm having problems with a book being too wide to fit on the screen of my eReader (Sony 505). The book is Seaborn, and is available as a free download from here: http://www.saltwaterwitch.com/freeseaborn.php The version I am downloading is the html one. Even in Calibre, after converting to EPUB, the text is too wide for Calibre's built in viewer (unless I expand the width a large amount). Is the a problem with the book itself, or is it a setting/issue with Calibre? Thanks!

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11-16-2010, 01:34 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	use the linearize tables conversion option

11-16-2010, 01:52 PM	#3
danwdoo Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 2584958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Texas Device: Kindle PW2	Thanks for the quick response! I tried the setting, reconverted the book, but it did not make a difference on the eReader, or in the Calibre viewer. The text is still too wide.

11-16-2010, 02:13 PM	#4
janvanmaar Addict Posts: 219 Karma: 404 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Kindle 3G, Samsung SIII	I have just tried and get the html correctly converted to mobi. You can try html->mobi->epub...

11-16-2010, 02:26 PM	#5
danwdoo Groupie Posts: 168 Karma: 2584958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Texas Device: Kindle PW2	I tried html -> mobi -> epub and sure enough it seems to have worked perfectly. I'll have to remember that trick in the future! Thanks!

11-17-2010, 11:03 AM	#7
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	It's certainly possible to remove width settings on tags (or at least reduce them to the screen width of the output profile). Open a ticket for it with a sample and I will get to it when I have the time.

11-17-2010, 10:35 PM	#8
ldolse Wizard Posts: 1,337 Karma: 123457 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Malaysia Device: PRS-650, iPhone	Odds are that this is because an online pdftohtml utility was used, I've seen a few that create more accurate output than what Calibre's current pdftohtml can do, but they use a lot of hardcoded divs like these to maintain the original layouts more precisely (unfortunately simultaneously killing reflow) Some examples: http://convertpdftohtml.net/ http://www.pdfonline.com/convert-pdf...l/default.aspx

11-18-2010, 12:27 PM	#9
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,609 Karma: 28549044 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Yeah I've seen that (actually calibre's pdftohtml can do that as well, it doesn't, because I am interested in reflowing PDFs not making reproducing them in HTML). All those online converters probably use the same pdftohtml from poppler that calibre does.