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Old 07-15-2009, 06:50 AM   #1
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I'm still messing around comparing the output of Calibre for Mobipocket files to that of Mobipocket Creator, and am about to give up on Creator.

But there does seem to be one small thing which works better with Creator than with Calibre.

In the HTML there is a line
<p>
The text at the end of this line should have a <span class="greyed">grey background</span>.
</p>

and the CSS for class='greyed' is
.greyed { color: black; background-color: #C0C0C0; }

In the prc generated by Mobipocket Creator the background is indeed grey, while in the mobi generated by Calibre it is not.

Is there a colour which will show in mobi's generated by Calibre? Or is my HTML/CSS wrong?

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Old 07-15-2009, 06:55 AM   #2
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You need to look at the HTML in the Mobipocket file created by Mobipocket creator. It will have converted that CSS into some explicit tags. Use those instead with Calibre, and the background should show up. It's not a case of just having specified the colour incorrectly.

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I'm still messing around comparing the output of Calibre for Mobipocket files to that of Mobipocket Creator, and am about to give up on Creator.

But there does seem to be one small thing which works better with Creator than with Calibre.

In the HTML there is a line
<p>
The text at the end of this line should have a <span class="greyed">grey background</span>.
</p>

and the CSS for class='greyed' is
.greyed { color: black; background-color: #C0C0C0; }

In the prc generated by Mobipocket Creator the background is indeed grey, while in the mobi generated by Calibre it is not.

Is there a colour which will show in mobi's generated by Calibre? Or is my HTML/CSS wrong?

Regards, Alex
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Old 07-15-2009, 12:17 PM   #3
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Looks like a bug in the calibre MOBI output routines. Open a ticket for it
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Old 07-15-2009, 07:42 PM   #4
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Looks like a bug in the calibre MOBI output routines. Open a ticket for it
Thanks, Kovid. I'll check out how to do that.

But the plot thickens - please see the post I am about to put up regarding problems generating ePub from the same HTML file.

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