Mobi2IMP 9.4 with new Windows GUI & UTF-8

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by tompe

Sometime when I am sufficiently bored...

... and now answering JSWolf's posts (and mine) in the Fictionwise ebookwise forum's somehow doesn't smack of wandering...

[tompe]

Originally Posted by nrapallo

... and now answering JSWolf's posts (and mine) in the Fictionwise ebookwise forum's somehow doesn't smack of wandering...

I read using search so I often do not notice the forum...

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by tompe

I read using search so I often do not notice the forum...

good (quick) cover....

[askyn]

Thank you for all your work on this program !!

Im pretty new to using the 1150 reader and even newer to using all the great utilities here on the forums ( which are a FANTASTIC source of help and information !! )

My question / suggestion is, is there a option / way to have mobi2imp delete the exploded directory after the book has been created in imp format?

Just wondering, I like to keep my directories clean etc and now i have to go in and manually delete the directory with the images and html etc.

EDIT: Also, is there a way to have the created book have the same name / title etc as the input file?

IE - input is called wilson, paul - the history

but when the imp is created ive noticed it pulls the title / auther form inside and a lot of times the file name can be drastically different

IE - output is calle Paul Wilson - The History

etc

Thank you again =)

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by askyn

Thank you for all your work on this program !!

Im pretty new to using the 1150 reader and even newer to using all the great utilities here on the forums ( which are a FANTASTIC source of help and information !! )

Thanks! Most of these utilities have only recently (approx. 6+ months) been available, so you haven't missed that much...

Question / suggestion is, is there a option / way to have mobi2imp delete the exploded directory after the book has been created in imp format?

No, it's not an option from within Mobi2IMP. The history to this is that not too long ago, nobody ever had access to the html within a .prc ebook. Now we do and that html is required to create the ebook, so it's exploded to do that.

Also, it was left exploded, as a convenience, for those that would then spend a lot of time tweaking the look of the .imp ebook to THEIR preferred standards. I guess you have to be an avid ebook creator to appreciate this "convenience".

It also forms a forced "backup" of sorts which most people won't do on their own.

And the real reason, this is not in Mobi2IMP, no place to put that option on the GUI screens (add David Letterman, Top 10 list cheer, now!)

Just wondering, I like to keep my directories clean etc and now i have to go in and manually delete the directory with the images and html etc.

Thank you again =)

You win some and you ...

[askyn]

Originally Posted by nrapallo

And the real reason, this is not in Mobi2IMP, no place to put that option on the GUI screens (add David Letterman, Top 10 list cheer, now!)

You win some and you ...

ROFL np =)

Its easy enough to clean up the directories etc thank you.

also, it was VERY bad of me and this is a perfect example of why I shouldnt do it in the future.

While you were typing a reply to me, I actually added another question to my other posting rofl !! sorry

Ill reprint it here just so it isnt missed etc.


EDIT: Also, is there a way to have the created book have the same name / title etc as the input file?

IE - input is called wilson, paul - the history

but when the imp is created ive noticed it pulls the title / auther form inside and a lot of times the file name can be drastically different

IE - output is calle Paul Wilson - The History

etc

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by askyn

EDIT: Also, is there a way to have the created book have the same name / title etc as the input file?

IE - input is called wilson, paul - the history

but when the imp is created ive noticed it pulls the title / auther form inside and a lot of times the file name can be drastically different

IE - output is calle Paul Wilson - The History

etc

Thank you again =)

Yes, that renaming thing is by design, as usually for storage purposes the filename is changed/shorten/obscured so the original creator's choice is used.

Where that too yields wacky results, just override that field in the GUI screen i.e. Title/Author/Category. Then, for the next conversion, just reinsert the word "Extracted".

[askyn]

Thank you again.

Best praise I can say is I hope to be able to help someone as you have helped me with my questions =)

[Rolnikov]

Hi Nick - thanks immensely for creating this software. My Rocket eBook is all of a sudden the most useful item in the house!

I am getting one odd thing happening with it - when I import a new .rb file from Mobi2Imp into the Rocket Librarian, it overwrites the previous one. The librarian regards them as being the same book, even though they have different titles.

It's easy to get around, by using the Rocket Librarian on the exploded html your program creates to create the .rb, but I'm wondering if there's a setting I could change to fix it.

[Roberts324]

Hi Nick,

I am in the process of converting the Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, 8e édition (1932), using Book Designer, exporting to Mobipocket Format, then using Mobi2Imp to convert to IMP format.

However, I have a problem ith the "running headers" that Mobi2Imp creates (they are one of two reasons, to begin with, why I use Mobi2Imp rather than creating the IMP file from BD, the other being a smaller resulting size for the IMP file):

Mobi2Imp apparently does not accept accented letters, with the result that this header:

Dictionnaire (8e édition - 1932) Académie Française

is replaced by

Dictionnaire (8e ?tion - 1932) Acad?e Fran?se

Is there anything I could do to correct that behaviour?

Thanks, R.

[nrapallo]

Originally Posted by Roberts324

Hi Nick,

I am in the process of converting the Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française, 8e édition (1932), using Book Designer, exporting to Mobipocket Format, then using Mobi2Imp to convert to IMP format.

However, I have a problem ith the "running headers" that Mobi2Imp creates (they are one of two reasons, to begin with, why I use Mobi2Imp rather than creating the IMP file from BD, the other being a smaller resulting size for the IMP file):

Mobi2Imp apparently does not accept accented letters, with the result that this header:

Dictionnaire (8e édition - 1932) Académie Française

is replaced by

Dictionnaire (8e ?tion - 1932) Acad?e Fran?se

Is there anything I could do to correct that behaviour?

Thanks, R.

Robert:

It looks like you already got the header working in your French dictionary. The literal accented characters need to be replaced with their html codes for same, i.e.

Dictionnaire - 8e édition - 1932 Académie Française

then properly displays

Dictionnaire - 8e édition - 1932 Académie Française

In future, if you want to create a .imp directly from your .html with running headers, just add these lines:
In <head> ... </head> section:

<style type="text/css">
 header {display:none; display:oeb-page-head}
</style>

and just after the <body> tag:

<header>
<table border="0" width="100%">
<tr>
<td align="left"><small>Dictionnaire - 8e &eacute;dition - 1932</small></td>
<td align="right"><small>Acad&eacute;mie Fran&ccedil;aise</small></td>
</tr>
</table>
<hr>
</header>

Hope this helps others as well.

[nrapallo]

Just fixed but not yet added to a full release:

Version 9.4c
(19 March 2009)

- NEW: Now implemented extradata MobiPerl processing for multibyteoverlap coded ebooks.
- FIX: Now helps retain ill-formed links. When trying to find a "home" for a filepos link, Mobi2IMP will be aggressive, despite bad placement, and scan forward up to 256 chars away from specified filepos location.
- NEW: Now better handles image (aspect-ratio) resizing and allows for the simultaneous sequential conversion to EBW1150 .imp and REB1200 .imp.
- NEW: Now can build a non-Sony .epub when the OEBFF (.oeb) GUI option is selected. Will cause the simultaneous creation of the .oeb ebook, but that .oeb can be deleted if the 'debug info' is selected (bug: not yet working).
- NEW: Allows the proper (functional) conversion of Feedbooks.com news feeds despite some quirks. Now can download RSS/news feeds in mobipocket format and convert them directly into .imp.
- NEW: Allows the proper (functional) conversion of Calibre news feeds despite some quirks. Now can download RSS/news feeds in mobipocket format and convert them directly into .imp.
- FIX: Now strip/blank out nulls and characters below ASCII 32, except chars 9 to 15. Also, remap some such chars to their HTML code equivalents. Now allows the converion of the MobileRead.com Mobipocket Download Guide as well as the Feedbooks.com Kindle Download guide into .imp.
- NEW: Now prints a summary of the .imp ebook/metadata info when done.

Fixed for now in Mobi2IMP.exe dos only (see Mobi2IMP-9.4c-dos.zip in post#1 above).

p.s. I will no longer change the GUI installer for minor bug fixes that do not change to GUI options screen. Instead, I will update only the Mobi2IMP.exe in the 'Mobi2IMP/bin' directory. Unzip the highest version number followed by a letter in post#1 above into the 'Mobi2IMP/bin' home directory overwriting the old .exe. At the next release, these files will be deleted!

[nrapallo]

Just fixed but not yet added to a full release:

Version 9.4d (2 April 2009)

- FIX: Tweaked the image resizing to allow one line of text below the image i.e. a "caption".
- FIX: Allows proper handling of null (0) content EXTH data.

Fixed for now in Mobi2IMP.exe dos only (see Mobi2IMP-9.4d-dos.zip in post#1 above).

[nrapallo]

Just fixed but not yet added to a full release:

Version 9.4e (11 August 2009)

- NEW: Now converts Mobipocket-specific tags like <div height="0em"> and <div width="0em"> to
<div style="margin-top:0em"> and <div style="text-indent:0em">.
Works for all tags like "<div " except "<img ". Thanks to Nate the great for the inspiration!
- FIX: Allows proper <p>, <div>, <ul>, <li> closing tags now. Thanks to Jellby for the tip!
- FIX: Re-tweaked the image resizing to better allow one line of text below the image i.e. a "caption".
- FIX: Now properly uses lowercase tags instead of depreciated UPPERCASE tags.

Fixed for now in Mobi2IMP-gui.exe and Mobi2IMP.exe only (see Mobi2IMP-9.4e.zip in post#1 above).

[Roberts324]

Good work again, Nick, though I may use your nice software less and less: I have converted my eeePC 900 to an ebook reader, tweaked it with eeeRotate and miscellaneous readers, and I find the result is better than even the Ebookwise device, that I only use now for downloaded .imp texts...