I have just finished updating an old buggy sourceforge project and decided to share code and binaries. More over, I have written a nice post on why I had to update the project and how to use it to convert word to mobi files for kindle but thanks to Windows Live Writer (which crashed :-( ) I lost it all!
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Summary of previous (lost) post
- Kindle (up to 3) doesn’t support word
- I use calibre for file conversions (and ebook management)
- word—> pdf—> mobi process is no good for technical reports with lots of images and diagrams (most of the pictures are displayed at random places)
- word –> rft –>mobi is better but will not work on large files
- word –>chm –>mobi pretty good results
- The old project converted doc to html via office interops, cleared the html using HTMLTidy interop and saved a xhtml. The output was fed to Microsoft Help Compiler and voila the chm file.
- The old project was buggy on a x64 platform (probably the dev had a x86 machine, used x86 interops, and forgot to change the compiler option from “AnyCPU” to x86)
- The old project had an old HTMLTidy reference which I replace for the newer TidyManaged.
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1 comment:
To support Character Encoding other thatn UTF8 locate the comment "'Abot comment: Change this to support other character encodings") in HTMLConvertor->HtmlConvertorBase.vb file
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