Mobipocket output

[zelda_pinwheel]

hello ! thank you for this, it's brilliant, and i know a lot of people are going to be really happy to use calibre with their cybooks.

just a little (well, not that little actually) problem i've just noticed. to test, i ran my recipe for Libération asking for mobi output. all seems to be going well, it makes me a mobi file, and the beginning looks fine : the short texts all display correctly. BUT, on SOME articles (not all though), if you follow the link for the full article, none of the special characters are displayed correctly !

i am attaching a sample file of the same recipe in epub (no worries there) and mobi.

in the first section, "La une", we have the excerpt

Obama met fin à une clause anti-avortement [sam., 24 janv. 13:44] Le nouveau président de Etats-Unis multiplie mesures et annonces sur tous les sujets sensibles, en totale rupture avec son prédécesseur George Bush.

note all the accents are properly displayed. if you follow that link, you get this result :

EPUB VERSION (all characters correctly displayed)

Obama met fin à une clause anti-avortement

Barack Obama a autorisé à nouveau vendredi le financement d'organisations pratiquant ou facilitant l'avortement à l'étranger, étendant aux grandes questions de société la remise en cause des politiques de son prédécesseur George W. Bush.
Signe du caractère sensible d'une telle décision, prise trois jours seulement après son investiture, M. Obama a signé le décret hors présence de la presse, à la différence d'autres décrets au grand retentissement signés la veille et ordonnant la fermeture du camp de Guantanamo.

MOBI VERSION (all accented characters missing, and some spaces missing too)

Obama met fin à une clause anti-avortement
BarackObamaa autoris nouveau vendredi le financement d'organisations pratiquant ou facilitant l'avortement l'tranger, tendant aux grandes questions de socit la remise en cause des politiques de son prdcesseur George W. Bush.

Signe du caractre sensible d'une telle dcision, prise trois jours seulement aprs son investiture, M.Obamaa sign le dcret hors prsence de la presse, la diffrence d'autres dcrets au grand retentissement signs la veille et ordonnant la fermeture du camp de Guantanamo.

the really odd thing, is that in some articles the text is correctly displayed.

[acidzebra]

Ha ha ha Calibre is going to dominate the ebook world in that cross-platform open kind of awesome way. Great work, guys.

[sianon]

Calibre is having difficulties converting some Lit files to Mobi, easy work around to convert to epub, then convert from epub to mobi and final output looks very good.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by sianon

Calibre is having difficulties converting some Lit files to Mobi, easy work around to convert to epub, then convert from epub to mobi and final output looks very good.

Please open tickets and attach the LIT files as this should not be happening.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by acidzebra

Ha ha ha Calibre is going to dominate the ebook world in that cross-platform open kind of awesome way. Great work, guys.

That's the plan

[kovidgoyal]

@zelda

Can you open a ticket and also attach your recipe if it's not a builtin one.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

@zelda

Can you open a ticket and also attach your recipe if it's not a builtin one.

it is the built-in one, but i'll open a ticket anyway if you want.

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

it is the built-in one, but i'll open a ticket anyway if you want.

Thanks, helps to keep track of things

[brewt]

Brewt's Contribution to the Plan for World Domination

Attached is a zip file that has in it everything:

Source html's,
mobicreator output,
calibre outout of epub & mobi file


The epub output of calibre = not too bad.

Calibre mobi output:
The html links in the file I had for the toc don't work.
The left-justified text of the body copy is all centered
Despite unckecked "do not add detected chapters to table of contents" the chapters were added, but not differentiation of toc levels.
The "Title" style was split
Sub-tocs partially centered.
cross-reference link (Comment) lost.

ticket 1687 opened.

-bjc

[zelda_pinwheel]

ticket 1688 opened.

[llasram]

Originally Posted by tompe

When I had this problem with MobiPerl it was because I had not set the correct pointers in the MobiHeader.

Do you remember any details? All my test output shows cover in Desktop fine, but hey...

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

ticket 1688 opened.

wow, ticket 1688 was resolved while i was sleeping ! it's like magic. cheers llasram !

[tompe]

Originally Posted by llasram

Do you remember any details? All my test output shows cover in Desktop fine, but hey...

In my case I had not set the offsets at all. I did not know they existed before somebody pointed out that it did not work in the Desktop reader.

[bkilian]

I noticed that any2mobi doesn't support all the functions of any2lrf, like, for instance --baen, and force-page-break-before. Is this by design? The baen html is horrid, and probably needs fixing irrespective of the output format

[kovidgoyal]

Originally Posted by bkilian

I noticed that any2mobi doesn't support all the functions of any2lrf, like, for instance --baen, and force-page-break-before. Is this by design? The baen html is horrid, and probably needs fixing irrespective of the output format

Baen HTML is autodetected. You can use --chapter to force page breaks