12-31-2008, 05:40 PM | #1 |
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Converting pdf or Word to mobi with formatting
Is there a good way to convert pdfs or Word documents to Mobipocket? I've tried a bunch of things and they all throw the formatting out the window. It's not that complex... a cover image and then the text. I just want it to maintain line and page breaks. Everything I've tried seems to extract just the text. Am I doing something wrong?
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12-31-2008, 06:19 PM | #2 | |
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Derek P.S. The four pictures are: #1 My normal font size in Constantia #2 Same font "size" but changed to Verdana #3 Verdana font again but upped by one font size #4 Now same size but changed to GaramondNo8 Notice how the text flow changes to fit the new font family/size. This is why hard-coded line and page breaks are not a 'good thing' under Mobi. P.P.S. The ebook, "Fledgling" is by Steve Miller and Sharon Lee, but Francis Turner and Chris Dolley have taken - with M&L's permission - the weekly chapter posts of the (very) rough draft and bundled them into .mobi files. Unfortunately, I've not yet taken this ebook apart and re-formatted it to show the proper author names. Last edited by delphidb96; 12-31-2008 at 06:39 PM. Reason: added pics |
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12-31-2008, 11:49 PM | #3 | |
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Can you not open Word or RTF in BookDesigner if Word isn't installed? I'm using Open Office 3.0 and I had a hard time finding something it would even open. Any version of Word I save the file in, it gave a series of very similar dialogs, mostly along the lines of "check your MS Word installation" (it even said this when I wasn't opening Word files, like a PDF). The only thing I could open was HTML. It didn't do too bad a job, with a little work, but things like italicizing was gone. Is there a newer version than 4.0? As for formatting, I wasn't wanting to stick strictly to the input file, but I wanted things like: - the cover scan - a page break before each chapter (I found an option in BookDesigner that seem to almost do that, but it missed them at seemingly random intervals, so I had to go through and add them in manually) - a page break putting title pages, etc. on their own pages Thanks! |
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01-01-2009, 12:15 AM | #4 |
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Yes. Install the the latest update version on top of 4.0, see Wiki: Book Designer.
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01-01-2009, 11:50 AM | #5 |
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OK, that's what I had installed... thanks!
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