amalthia: (Farscape)
Amalthia ([personal profile] amalthia) wrote in [community profile] fanfic_ebooks2009-02-09 11:00 pm

Mobi conversions for Calibre

I've been testing Calibre's mobi conversion of html files to mobi and so far it's far more stable than previous versions.

Here are some codes I use to make my life easier.

These are added to the css style overrides.

p {
text-indent: 1em;
margin: 0;
}

These are the margins I set...

Left 1pt
Right 1pt
Top 0pt
Bottom 0pt

source profile Browser
Destination profile cybook

I haven't had much chance to figure out the difference between the different profiles. So if someone knows the answer please don't be afraid to let us know. :)

My html source file starts off with Times New Roman size 12 font. I use regular

tags for paragraphs and very basic html codes for bolded and italicized text.

EDIT: For anyone that is using < br > tags you may need to add < div > right after your body tag and < /div > at the end of your html document. Otherwise, when converting to Mobi or Epub the program treats break tags like paragraph tags.