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trial conversion.
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I just ran it through without any editing. To make a real book I would add meta data and redo the TOC. The links all work in the book but mobipocket will fail to recognize it as a toc. Metadata means fixing the title, author, genre, description of the book. Dale |
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Did you want the chapters to start on new pages? If so this is not happening. There is no paginate on MobiPocket. They paginate on the fly which is why they can't tell you how many pages are in the book. They only provide a progress bar based on the file size (I believe). Thus they have some problems with pagination if you jump around and then backup. This is a result of giving the user full control of the font sizes. The TOC depends on tags to generate and it is usually best just to let it do it. It all depends on what you want the book to look like. There is also an issue with the cover page. It needs special treatment to appear on the library page on a pc. So far none of the other mobipocket devices support images on the library listing but the pc does so it is likely the rest will get them at some point. It is best to select the coverpage image separately in creator. Thus it should be missing from the html. The best bet is to remove the cover image and toc from the html and let the creator program build them. Then add the meta data and you are done. When I tried the result on my Palm (A Garmin device) it would display the images but when I tapped down it would reverse the image (black for white) and then a second tap would move to the next page. I am not sure what is causing this but it is likely a mobipocket bug. I'll try this on my Windows Mobile device and see what happens. Dale Last edited by DaleDe; 09-19-2007 at 01:32 PM. Reason: added cover page discussion. |
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According to their own Mobipocket Creator documentation, there is a page-break tag <mbpagebreak/>
Hope this helps. Derek Quote:
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Can i just make a geeky comment? I know I'm being an html snob, but the html produced by BookDesigner is truly truly horrible. It breaks just about all of the rules for writing valid html (no paragraph tags! no heading tags!).
I don't think this is entirely an issue of snobbery. Future ebook formats will be based on xhtml and while i suspect they will need to work with non-valid xhtml it's got to be an advantage to start with a properly marked-up reference source text as the basis. OK flame me now. |
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<mbp:pagebreak/> [quote:DaleDe]The TOC depends on tags to generate and it is usually best just to let it do it. It all depends on what you want the book to look like[/quote] You would need to go through and replace Code:
<A name=Page_15></A></DIV><HR> <SPAN id=title><A name=BdToc_2> <DIV align=center><FONT color=#001950><B>CHAPTER 2</B></FONT></DIV> </A> </SPAN> Code:
<h3>....</h3> Last edited by andym; 09-19-2007 at 03:44 PM. |
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Quick Question re: reformatting txt files
I've got a *bunch* of .txt files which have - for some silly reason - *SHORT* lines, maybe 40-45 characters before hitting a hard line-break. Is there a simple executable or a Word 2002 script which will take out all the excess line-breaks within a paragraph. Most of these files have two line-breaks between paragraphs.
I have, on my system Atlantis Word Processor and Word 2002 if anyone has a script for one of those. Derek |
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can be used to do this task. This is very common for many text files. The program is called e-Book Tidy. Dale Last edited by DaleDe; 09-19-2007 at 04:38 PM. Reason: clarification |
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I hope it's helpful (I'm conscious that the end result is you may decide that producing prc versions is too much hassle!). I've done a quick reformat of your file - so that it should be possible to generate a TOC automatically. Hopefully someone can run it through Mobipocket Creator to see what results it produces. I have found one weirdness, which is that at least on a PDA with Windows Mobile MBP will only display gifs in html. I don't think this is a problem with prc files. In the v3 version I replaced some of the pngs with gifs. Last edited by andym; 09-19-2007 at 05:23 PM. |
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Have a look at the tutorial here. Last edited by andym; 09-19-2007 at 05:31 PM. |
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