Horrendous formatting...
Bought a new book the other day, and it seems to be some weird fixed layout which makes it impossible to read...
Every word has it's own set up spans etc...
Maybe some of you regex masters can salvage this, I'm actually thinking converting it to pdf and run it through Finereader...
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}The image is how Calibre shows the ebook. As a epub on my Kobo is shows words sprinkled about on the page. Absolutly worthless.
What monstrous program makes this?
That is a fixed layout ePub. Change the file extention to .kepub.epub and load it on your Forma and it may work.
Converting to PDF won't work.
I think I read somewhere that Kobos expect fixed layout epubs to be named
sometitle.fxl.kepub.epub
Quote jackie_w
I think I read somewhere that Kobos expect fixed layout epubs to be named sometitle.fxl.kepub.epub
Correct.
From the
Kobolabs Epub Spec:
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Connect the device to your computer via USB.
Find the drive on your computer in Finder or Windows Explorer.
Drag your EPUB onto the device. To trigger the Kobo WebKit, change the file extension to “.kepub.epub”. To trigger the Kobo WebKit for a Fixed Layout title, change the extension to “.fxl.kepub.epub”. (If the extension is left unchanged it will render using the Adobe Digital Editions WebKit. This is the default display engine for sideloaded content to enable bookmarking, searching and highlighting.)
Disconnect your device. The file will automatically appear in your library.
Sideloaded EPUBs with the ".fxl.kepub.epub" or ".kepub.epub" will disable bookmarking and note keeping. Thumbnails for covers may not display. Otherwise the reading experience and content display will be identical to how the file would display when loaded through the store. Leaving the extension as ".epub" will enable bookmarking and note keeping and will trigger the ADE display engine.
Yes, as a kepub it's readable on Kobo.
I would like to convert it to a flowable epub, that's why I thought it may be easier to go via pdf and Finereader, but I may try to play around with regex and see what happens.
When I renamed the file to xxx.fxl.kepub.epub it only shows the upper left quadrant of every page. (This was from the kepub-file, maybe it's different from the original epub?)
Quote patrik
Yes, as a kepub it's readable on Kobo.
I would like to convert it to a flowable epub, that's why I thought it may be easier to go via pdf and Finereader, but I may try to play around with regex and see what happens.
Converting a fixed layout epub to reflowable is "fun". Good luck.
Quote patrik
When I renamed the file to xxx.fxl.kepub.epub it only shows the upper left quadrant of every page. (This was from the kepub-file, maybe it's different from the original epub?)
Who in Sweden sells books like this?*
Can you convert it to unicode text and just put some tags around headings?
*I visit relatives in Sweden at least once a year (before Corona) for 5 days or a week.
To keep your sanity, don't try to convert it to reflowable ePub. It's going to be a nightmare at best.
Quote patrik
Yes, as a kepub it's readable on Kobo.
I would like to convert it to a flowable epub, that's why I thought it may be easier to go via pdf and Finereader, but I may try to play around with regex and see what happens.
Lotsa luck. To be as blunt as I can, that's a job that my company will simply decline. It's 10-20x as much work, to "convert" FXL to reflowable, as it would be to make the entire thing from a damn PDF, (not Word, not InDesign) in the first place. It's...it's an horrific amount of work.
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