Comments on: EPub from Word: A Third Option

By: walt

walt — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:17:11 +0000

John: Sending me the Kindle/mobi versions probably wouldn’t help. What you described is pretty much what I saw in Calibre’s own reader–except that the main text wasn’t that readable in the HTML version. (Best guess: The typefaces aren’t embedded, and Calibre’s e-reader view doesn’t use partial-pixel enhancement…and I have Berkeley Book, but you don’t, so in your case the HTML version uses something that’s more readable. That may be more complicated than necessary.)

The contents-page corruption is exactly what I saw in the RTF-to-ePub version.

The bullet symbol used in the book is a chevron, so it’s not surprising that it sometimes converts to something other than a bullet.

Thanks!

By: John

John — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:10:28 +0000

Happy to send you the Kindle (mobi) versions if you are interested.

By: John

John — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:09:11 +0000

While not quite what you were looking for, I used Calibre to convert your epubs to my Kindle format.

Table of contents. Fine in the HTML version. Corrupted in the RTF version (odd “graph-definition>” inserts. Odd wrapping in the PDF version.

Bullets. Only RTF showed normal bullets, but wrapped a bit off. Other versions used a different symbol, both quite readable.

Cover missing in the PDF version.

Main text seemed quite readable in all cases, though I only clicked through about 15-20 pages/locations.

Hope that is of some use to you.