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PDF to EPUB --> grey background

Hello to all of you, I have a problem converting PDF documents to EPUB files. In earlier times it worked quite well, but in recent days Calibre makes a grey background, what makes the EPUB very hard to...

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multilanguage conversion issue

Hello, I recently completed a book that I am about to sell on amazon that has both english and vietnamese in it. Unfortunately when I try to convert it in calibre into the mobi format, the file ends up...

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Blank Pages Inserted when converting from PDF

Happy to move this post if I've put it in the wrong section Hi All, I've just started using Calibre and it's very very close to being perfect for what I want. But (theres always a but) I have a...

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Kindle Custom font update 5.9.6

Hey Guys, just question regarding converting any type to .mobi since now kindle support custom fonts. what would be the best settings to use to convert files to .mobi. other mobi files i have currently...

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Incorrectly quoted font name

Hello, I'm trying to convert to PDF and I keep getting the same error: KFX conversion error: Incorrectly quoted font name: 'arial I've tried a bunch of different CSS tweaks to either strip the arial...

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Calibre changes HTML markup during convert

Running Calibre 3.13 and when I "Convert books" to EPUB much of my markup changes. Some code I have added to stylesheet.css is removed. And, it completely removed a file (TableOfContents.html) which...

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Why is this azw3 ebook's format so bad?

I thought azw3 was supposed to be a nice format for reading on my Kindle Paperwhite. The formatting is awful. The text is in a narrow column on the right side of the screen. This is an ebook I emailed...

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Calibre format for Spotlight

Can I convert all of my (non-protected) books to a format that my Mac's Spotlight will recognize so that I can look through my books for a string or name? What format(s) would be good for this?

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Calibre Conversion Removes Original Paragraph Styles

When I convert an E-Book to the ePUB format from some other format (Mobi or AZW3, for example), Calibre creates a completely brand new set of paragraph styles, and it also adds a set of Calibre style...

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conversion challenge for badly formatted kindle book

i recently borrowed a book via Kindle unlimited and wanted to engineer a temporary epub version to read with working chapters. ( which I would delete once read) when I got into the converted from mobi...

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Calibre - Vertical Text and Right to Left in Japanese

Hello, I really love Calibre, but i can't get Japanese Vertical Text and "Right to Left" working for Converting Files. After importing an Japanese epub or mobi it even shows right in the Viewer, but...

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PDF to Mobi conversion error

I converted some PDF files to Mobi and it showed a blank page after every page.I also converted some Epub files to Mobi and they were alright.I haven't changed any of the conversion options.My...

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azw4 to epub deformats

Hello, a 400 page book (no epub format available), bought from Amazon deformats to more than 900 pages, hard to read. The index alone is stretched from 20 pages to 30 pages. For a sample page please...

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Text style changed when converting epub to mobi

I have converted a epub into mobi format. But its style got changed when i viewed in calibre ebool viewer. There are paragraphs in epub which are in itallic form i dont want them to convert in plain...

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.docx --> epub - Heading styles not translating to

Help! I'm converting a docx file to epub. Usually I specify • Level 1 ToC (Xpath expression): //h:h1 • Level 2 ToC (Xpath expression): //h:div[@id] and it works great. Suddenly it's not doing that -...

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Password-protected PDF

Where in the PDF-to-MOBI conversion process do I enter the password for my PDF? Conversion fails of course because of this issue: Command Line Error: Incorrect password

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PDF to epub: Does this work for you?

I have tried numerous times to convert from to PDF to Epub, but I get more or less the same results: Print one full line of text -> Print one line about 80% of that size -> Print newline. Repeat....

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Index

Hi! Is it possible to see the extended index in a book? (the titles of the chapters paragraphs) Thanks.

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Error in converting epub to mobi

i am trying to convert an epub to mobi and am getting an error: this is the error log: Convert book 1 of 1 (Witchmark) Conversion options changed from defaults: output_profile: 'generic_eink'...

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Calibre conversion questions

Hi! Sorry for the sort of generic title but I couldn't figure out how to distill my question to be short enough to work for the post title. So, here's my situation. I have ebooks from different stores,...

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