Removing blank pages and page breaks added in a converted Epub

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Poltem

No! This manuscript was entirely created in MS Word, from A to Z, with my fingers on keyboard. Then, the docx file was converted to Epub with Calibre. It was never saved in PDF.
I used, though, a modified copy of the docx file in Indesign, to generate a print book.

Make a copy of your Word file. Remove every single bit of formatting from it so you basically have a text file loaded into Word. Then fix the formatting using styles. So not do anything to format the book that isn't done with a style. And remember, when you use the same formatting multiple time, use the same style for each instance. The mess your eBook is in now will take you a lot longer to fix then to start the formatting over with Word and do it correctly with styles.

Not only is your HTML a horror, so is your CSS. Starting over is the easiest solution. You have too many things wrong in the CSS that once you clean up the HTML, you still have a lot of work to do with the CSS.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Poltem

No! <snip>

I used, though, a modified copy of the docx file in Indesign, to generate a print book.

Perchance you converted "…a modified copy of the docx file…"

ABC 6x9.INDD looks very much like an InDesign page layout file name, 6x9 being the paper size in inches.

And the 171 text_nn letter spacing spans suggest DTP typesetting has been used. It's the sort of thing a DTP program does at the click of a button. But, you'd need the mindset of a medieval monk to do all that finicky font character spacing in Word, with styles or in line

BR

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Perchance you converted "…a modified copy of the docx file…"

ABC 6x9.INDD looks very much like an InDesign page layout file name, 6x9 being the paper size in inches.

And the 171 text_nn letter spacing spans suggest DTP typesetting has been used. It's the sort of thing a DTP program does at the click of a button. But, you'd need the mindset of a medieval monk to do all that finicky font character spacing in Word, with styles or in line

BR

In the CSS is a lot of negative character spacing. So there is no way this is purely from a Word document.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

In the CSS is a lot of negative character spacing. So there is no way this is purely from a Word document.

Jon,

When calibre converts a DOCX with Condensed font scaling you get negative text-scaling in the EPUB style-sheet. But… that would need two monks.

BR

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Jon,

When calibre converts a DOCX with Condensed font scaling you get negative text-scaling in the EPUB style-sheet. But… that would need two monks.

BR

This is an eBook, why wouls you need condensed font scaling especially when it doesn't work in a lot of cases such as some older versions of RMSDK.

[deback]

If I had the entire ePub file, I could fix the formatting, and it probably wouldn't take very long. I would use Regex to fix and/or delete most of the bad coding.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by deback

If I had the entire ePub file, I could fix the formatting, and it probably wouldn't take very long. I would use Regex to fix and/or delete most of the bad coding.

But it needs to be done by the OP and the best way for the OP to do it is to remove all the formatting from the Word document and add them back in correctly using styles. And no fiddling with character positions.

[deback]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

But it needs to be done by the OP and the best way for the OP to do it is to remove all the formatting from the Word document and add them back in correctly using styles. And no fiddling with character positions.

Why does it need to be done by the OP?

I simply offered to fix the entire file for him or her. I can easily fix the ePub file.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

But it needs to be done by the OP and the best way for the OP to do it is to remove all the formatting from the Word document and add them back in correctly using styles. And no fiddling with character positions.

Why does it need to be done by the OP? Looking at the stylesheet and the small sample of the html, it should not take that long and the OP can take a look at the original and the modified to see what was done.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Why does it need to be done by the OP? Looking at the stylesheet and the small sample of the html, it should not take that long and the OP can take a look at the original and the modified to see what was done.

So the OP can learn how to do it in Word with styles. If someone else cleans up the ePub, they can be compared. But that doesn't help for the next time. Would you rather do it for the OP and the OP come back asking for more help or would you rather the OP redo it and not have to come back asking for the same help?

By redoing it, the OP can come back asking for help how to redo it and can get help and learn how to do it for other eBooks as well as this one.

If it was me, I'd like to learn what to do.

[Poltem]

Hello guys!
Happy New Year to all of you and your families.
I wish you all a wonderful new year 202 and 1.
I heard your advice and I rebuilt the whole thing because I need to learn it ASAP. I must have made some mistakes somewhere, but I must tell you that I have just been 2 or 3 weeks into Calibre, an incredible software.
99% of my problems are gone, but 2 little new ones appeared. I'll try to resolve them by myself, and I'll get back to you.
Thank you again for your time and kind assistance in this matter, and I get back to you tomorrow.