Heuristic Processing PDB

pillphil · 07-31-2012, 12:29 AM

I'm having a bit of trouble with this.

I have an ebook (PDB) which is a complete mess, it's all one single line of text, large parts are italiced and large parts are in bold for no good reason. When I convert it to mobi, it stays the same. However when I convert it from pdb to mobi with heuristic processing, it does an amazing job, I couldn't believe it.
Except, it only outputs the first quarter of the book.

Any ideas?

pillphil · 07-31-2012, 12:49 AM

Got it figured out. I converted to epub, then converted epub to mobi with heuristic processing. I still have chapters completely bold or italic, but unless there's an easy way to remove them, it'll do

kovidgoyal · 07-31-2012, 01:42 AM

Use the filter css to remove the font-weight css property.

pillphil · 07-31-2012, 02:08 AM

I'm just after figuring out why it happened and how to get rid of it. The book I'm reading uses these things to denote thoughts <>. So when someone thought something like <I have too much time on my hands> The next lot of text was converted into italics.
I used the tweak function to explode the book and word pad to edit out the unnecessary <i's and <b's.

I've had a look at the css, It might save some searching and deleting if this happens again. I'm not familiar with it though. What would I have to enter to remove the font weight property?

kovidgoyal · 07-31-2012, 02:12 AM

font-weight for bold and font-style for italic

pillphil · 07-31-2012, 02:52 AM

Thanks for that, I was looking in the user style sheet tab of the viewer instead of the filter css.

Finally got it working. Great program by the way.

07-31-2012, 12:29 AM	#1
pillphil Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: kindle 4	Heuristic Processing PDB I'm having a bit of trouble with this. I have an ebook (PDB) which is a complete mess, it's all one single line of text, large parts are italiced and large parts are in bold for no good reason. When I convert it to mobi, it stays the same. However when I convert it from pdb to mobi with heuristic processing, it does an amazing job, I couldn't believe it. Except, it only outputs the first quarter of the book. Any ideas?

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07-31-2012, 12:49 AM	#2
pillphil Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: kindle 4	Got it figured out. I converted to epub, then converted epub to mobi with heuristic processing. I still have chapters completely bold or italic, but unless there's an easy way to remove them, it'll do

07-31-2012, 01:42 AM	#3
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,850 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	Use the filter css to remove the font-weight css property.

07-31-2012, 02:08 AM	#4
pillphil Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: kindle 4	I'm just after figuring out why it happened and how to get rid of it. The book I'm reading uses these things to denote thoughts <>. So when someone thought something like <I have too much time on my hands> The next lot of text was converted into italics. I used the tweak function to explode the book and word pad to edit out the unnecessary <i's and <b's. I've had a look at the css, It might save some searching and deleting if this happens again. I'm not familiar with it though. What would I have to enter to remove the font weight property?

07-31-2012, 02:12 AM	#5
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 43,850 Karma: 22666666 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	font-weight for bold and font-style for italic

07-31-2012, 02:52 AM	#6
pillphil Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: kindle 4	Thanks for that, I was looking in the user style sheet tab of the viewer instead of the filter css. Finally got it working. Great program by the way.

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