Why is my Kindle formatting weird?
October 3, 2011 10:52 PM Subscribe
Kindle formatting gone wild. I've been working on converting a .PDF to a Kindle File (.mobi) and I'm almost there . . .except for one pesky problem.
The file looks great when I navigate through the book using the links in the table of contents - both paging forwards and back--but when I attempt to read the book start-to-finish, all the text is underlined! (needless to say I did not code it as such!) The source html looks fine in a browser. I am on deadline and at my wit's end. Please hope me!
The file looks great when I navigate through the book using the links in the table of contents - both paging forwards and back--but when I attempt to read the book start-to-finish, all the text is underlined! (needless to say I did not code it as such!) The source html looks fine in a browser. I am on deadline and at my wit's end. Please hope me!
You could try running it through Calibre to clean it up.
posted by conrad53 at 5:54 AM on October 4, 2011
posted by conrad53 at 5:54 AM on October 4, 2011
Don't use Calibre -- it will add nonvalidating junk. Try posting this question to #ePrdctn on Twitter or to Quora. That's where the experts hang out.
posted by libraryhead at 7:09 AM on October 4, 2011
posted by libraryhead at 7:09 AM on October 4, 2011
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Have you tried putting an HTML strict DTD at the top to see if that makes any difference to what a web browser sees?
You could try opening up the code in emacs, which will attempt to show the text as it will be displayed along with the tags: sometimes that helps to track down the error.
A third possibility is that there's some wayward CSS which is causing the underlining. Again, the Kindle (well mobipocket) HTML interpreter is fairly dumb & may well give different results to a full-fat web browser.
posted by pharm at 3:04 AM on October 4, 2011