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DOCX conversion failure

Please bear with me. I'm a newbie with Calibre, and hope I can get an answer for this. First the background: 27 inch iMac with 2.93 GHz Core i7 quad core processor, 20 GB RAM, MacOS 10.6.8, Calibre...

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which ADE version do I need ?

I changed my laptop as the old one died so I don't have ADE anymore on my laptop. I had a lot of books to read so it's a long time that I bought a book. I've seen one that I'd like to buy but I guess...

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AZW3 to DOCX Conversion fine except for some Graphics

I'm working with my brothers book of cartoons. The conversion of text is fine, as is the cover, but the remainder of the pages containing graphics is cut off on the right hand side. Everything looks...

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Pdf to Epub conversion question

I have an e-book in pdf format (alas). When I try to convert it to EPUB, every line becomes a separate paragraph, which makes it impossible to read on my tablet. I know pdfs are hard to convert but any...

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Calibre Back End Integration

Good Morning, I am looking into using Calibre for our company to automate the conversion of PDFs to ePUB. Is this something that would be possible to integrate with our system in order so that Calibre...

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Pdf to Epub errors

I am beyond frustrated. I am trying to upload an ebook for into Ingramspark. The file has to be epub. When I converted the file and it did a check it sent me alllll of these errors. I am so not very...

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Calibre freezes when preparing bulk conversion

So I have been trying to convert my 8000 books from OPF format to EPUB, but everytime after they get queued for conversion Calibre goes unresponsive. Is there a easier way to do this bulk conversion?...

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Question re: AZW3 covers on Kindle Fire...

Hello fellow ebookers, I've been tinkering with calibre conversions for my first time today and I've come across a question. I'm not certain whether this should go here or in the Kindle forum but here...

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Strange first line in Mobi file - everything else fine

Hi all, My source document is created in OpenOffice as an ODT file. I then convert in Calibre to a Mobi. I've used style sheets throughout. The first page is a dedication page, so that particular style...

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automatic TOC generation

Hi, I've been using Calibre to convert pdf files to htmlz. Almost all the time, it generates a section called document outline at the bottom of the document, that accurately lists the sections of the...

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Reserved words in Calibre??

hi, just found something strange so I had to ask are there reserved words in Calibre, something we can't use/should avoid in XHTML and CSS ??? for now I have positive answer on "chapter" - if a CSS...

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Internal Links broken in Epub to DOCX conversion

The new Word Doc conversion really is wonderful — most of the formatting works beautifully, and what doesn't is pretty easily fixed. There's one thing that doesn't work —*none of the internal links...

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Level 2 headings without page breaks?

To convert HTML to ePub I use ebook-convert source.htm target.epub --epub-inline-toc --level1-toc //h:h1 --level2-toc //h:h2 --language en This works fine, but while I want heading levels 2 to show up...

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Can't convert a large file

I want to convert a kindle book that I bought to pdf so that I can use another app to handwrite notes on it. I used the DeDRM plugin and I was able to convert it up to 67% where it stops. I was...

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Manga Conversion

Hi, I have recently started using calibre for my ebooks and manga. I am trying to convert my manga (.cbc format) to an ebook format (either .mobi or .epub). I have done the following: 1. Convert my...

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Can I choose between different default cover designs?

When I convert files (e.g. from HTML to EPUB), I gladly accept Calibre's offer to generate default covers. Calibre seems to choose randomly from a set of different cover designs (some of which I like...

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Indentation for numbered/bulletted paragraphs

I'm converting from docx, and both my numbered paragraphs and bulleted paragraphs are getting indented by quite a bit. Ideally, the numbers and bullets would be flush left, in line with all the other...

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convert downloaded website to .mobi?

How can I take a website and make a .mobi file for each of its monthly posts? I downloaded the site with sitesucker and the file size is 4gigs so that's obviously too big for one .mobi. The downloaded...

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Converting HTML, -> .epub works, -> mobi, bad format.

I'm not sure this belongs here, but if not please direct me to the proper place. I am creating a .html file, listing books in a database. The HTML displays correctly in Firefox, and Calibre's...

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Bad conversion of foreign quotes

I used Calibre to convert a .txt file to .epub, and it mangled all of the german-style quotation marks. »Nein« became ťNeinŤ everywhere. It looks like I can do a search and replace in the html files to...

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