02-26-2018, 08:00 PM | #1 |
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Help with Calibre editor
ebooks that are converted from .txt or .pdf files have way too many line breaks, which often make it very unpleasant to read those files.
Removing ALL linebreaks causes everything to be bunched up without any visual separations. That makes an ebook imo difficult to read. In large files, removing line breaks selectively to have a visually pleasing separation of paragraphs takes forever. Is there any way that the Calibre editor can get back to the original layout by removing the extra linebreaks, without also removing the ones between the original paragraphs? Q1: Can this be done during the conversion from TXT o PDF to epub? If yes, please explain how, or refer to an article where explained. Q2: I have a number of files that I did convert to epub and have deleted the source txt file. If Q1 is answered positively, I guess I could convert those back to TXT and then again to epub with the fix. If that is not possible, can this be fixed in the Calibre EPUB editor without having to waste days of my time on manually fixing a single book? TIA |
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02-27-2018, 02:35 AM | #3 | |
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02-28-2018, 05:51 AM | #4 |
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In addition for PDF:
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03-02-2018, 11:37 AM | #5 | |
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That is pretty much my experience. I did figure out the heuristic processing , and am experimenting with the 'search/replace" function during conversion. Is there a way to use regular expressions in the editor as well? I have tried that, doesn't seem to work. |
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Yes, in the search zone select Regex instead of Normal of Function.
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03-24-2018, 09:22 AM | #8 | |
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It's commercial-ware but fairly cheap, and there's a time-limited trial version you can download from their website. (NB: I have no connection to Aiseesoft, but I was impressed enough that I bought a copy after playing around with the trial version. I'm still impressed.) Last edited by Phssthpok; 03-24-2018 at 09:26 AM. |
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03-30-2018, 10:32 AM | #9 |
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Thank you. I'll look into that.
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04-02-2018, 05:45 PM | #10 |
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Hi, also struggling with this. I signed in to this forum today. The first post I noticed was yours G2B, funny I had the same problem
Right now I'm into the "Heuristic Processing" backward and forward... Trying to get the conversion notice the "Chapters" and centered headlines etc. Did you test the "PDF-to-ePUB converter"? |
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Now I'm trying with advanced settings... |
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04-06-2018, 09:39 AM | #12 |
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No, I did not. I downloaded it, but have not needed it so far. The majority of what I do is cleaning up files that already have been converted to PDF without concern for readability, meaning I'm starting with EPUB format.
I do use the heuristic processing first; the rest is mostly working in the editor with regular expressions to filter out the remaining garbage. |
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