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Old 02-20-2008, 10:41 AM   #151
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I did flag this back in post #120, guys...
You are right you did, somehow when reading through the thread, I saw that post but it didn't click at the time. I apologize for missing it. (not that I am removing my thanks to JSWOLF for slapping me in the head to make it stick as well...)

Thanks for pointing out what was happening and how to fix it. I am about half way through my 'repair' now.

I like the way that Acrobat Pro (8 at least) outputs the HTML. I just wish BD handled the conversion of it better.... It mangles the images and looses the TOC at least for me it does..


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Old 02-20-2008, 11:12 AM   #153
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When BD imports a PDF, it loses the attributes and graphics. I cannot say how it handles the paragraphs as I don't use it to convert PDF.

Acrobat 8 did a pretty good job with the paragraphs, but still it id mangle at least a few spots. So check for them and you will see.

But the good news is next time we'll get an HTML file as well and can deal with that a lot easier.
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I will keep an eye out for that JSWolf, thanks...

The one thing that drives me insane and I don't know if it is in the conversion, the original or in BD is FULL JUSTIFICATION.

I hate when I am reading along and all of a sudden half the words are miles apart. For me it just destroys any rhythm I have reading through the book. How can I get BD to left justify without destroying all the other formatting? I tried highlighting the section that bothered me first and then selecting FORMAT->Other Formatting-> Left Justify and it looks OK in BD but when the LRF is made it is still Full Justified.

Same goes for line spacing, err, page spacing.. well anyway, I want a page to look like this

title



Sub title



Text info

and in BD is does, however in the LRF it is all run together

Title
Sub Title
Text info

I have tried CRLF's and BR's and nothing seems to work in the final LRF. any suggestions?

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Old 02-20-2008, 12:16 PM   #155
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How can I get BD to left justify without destroying all the other formatting?
Not sure if you can - if you take a look at "Make Sony Reader File"/styles/"paragraph"/align, it looks as if that's all it allows...
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Old 02-20-2008, 12:21 PM   #156
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Not sure if you can - if you take a look at "Make Sony Reader File"/styles/"paragraph"/align, it looks as if that's all it allows...
It is possible for IMP file output to edit the HTML0 file and add CSS statements to the body element to set left justify. I am not sure about other outputs. It depends on the device driver in use.

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I will keep an eye out for that JSWolf, thanks...

The one thing that drives me insane and I don't know if it is in the conversion, the original or in BD is FULL JUSTIFICATION.

I hate when I am reading along and all of a sudden half the words are miles apart. For me it just destroys any rhythm I have reading through the book. How can I get BD to left justify without destroying all the other formatting? I tried highlighting the section that bothered me first and then selecting FORMAT->Other Formatting-> Left Justify and it looks OK in BD but when the LRF is made it is still Full Justified.

Same goes for line spacing, err, page spacing.. well anyway, I want a page to look like this

title



Sub title



Text info

and in BD is does, however in the LRF it is all run together

Title
Sub Title
Text info

I have tried CRLF's and BR's and nothing seems to work in the final LRF. any suggestions?

-John
You can only get full justification. But what I found works in most cases is to cases is to change the word spacing. I use 12 and it works very well. Wordspacing is found in the make Sony dialog. Also, when I want spacing I cannot get with returns, I use a blank graphic that I size as appropriate.
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I still have not received an email. Is anyone else just not getting an email? Or has anyone else resolved this issue?
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I will keep an eye out for that JSWolf, thanks...

The one thing that drives me insane and I don't know if it is in the conversion, the original or in BD is FULL JUSTIFICATION.
That's a BD annoyance. To fix it, you have to edit the HTML source after you have used BD, and remove all "align=justify" statements.

See HarryT's Book Designer tutorial, stickied elsewhere on MobileRead, for details.
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I got two email messages from TOR as I signed up twice.
I got another, as they resent it fixed to display the graphic properly in GMail. Looks like someone was paying attention...
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But the good news is next time we'll get an HTML file as well and can deal with that a lot easier.
Per an email from Patrick Neilsen-Hayden at Tor:

> Hi, Dennis. As I wrote to someone else just yesterday: In fact, the
> plan was to offer both PDF and HTML, and the HTML version got dropped
> at the last minute for technical reasons that have now been fixed.
> Subsequent releases will be available in both PDF and HTML, and we're
> actually looking into MobiPocket, among other formats. Anyone who
> wants a copy of MISTBORN in HTML need only ask.
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I would ask for the HTML, but I've already done the conversion.
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Per an email from Patrick Neilsen-Hayden at Tor:

> Hi, Dennis. As I wrote to someone else just yesterday: In fact, the
> plan was to offer both PDF and HTML, and the HTML version got dropped
> at the last minute for technical reasons that have now been fixed.
> Subsequent releases will be available in both PDF and HTML, and we're
> actually looking into MobiPocket, among other formats. Anyone who
> wants a copy of MISTBORN in HTML need only ask.
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um, ask who? and how? I am only about half way through the conversion and I would start over to get a clean beginning...

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