calibre

CSS stripped in Mobi-to-Mobi conversion

Bug #1157345 reported by Sanders Kleinfeld on 2013-03-19

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	calibre	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When I do a Mobi-to-Mobi conversion via Calibre v0.9.23 on Mac OS X, all the CSS embedded in the source Mobi file appears to be stripped out of the output Mobi file. Can the source CSS be preserved in the output Mobi?

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote on 2013-03-20: Re: calibre bug 1157345

You need to convert to azw3.

status invalid

Changed in calibre:
status:	New → Invalid

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Sanders Kleinfeld (sanders-t) wrote on 2013-03-20:

mobis.zip Edit (3.7 MiB, application/zip)

Hi Kovid,

I did try converting to azw3 as well, and I experienced the same error. I'm attaching a .zip of two files to this ticket: original.mobi is my original Mobi file (a KF8 file produced from EPUB with KindleGen 2.7), and converted.azw3 is the azw3 file output by converting the original Mobi Calibre. All the KF8 styling is gone in the azw3 file--perhaps because I'm using an amzn-kf8 @media querly?

Let me know if I can provide any more information that would be of help.

Thanks,
Sanders

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote on 2013-03-20:

I'll take a detailed look later, but note that you cannot put @ rules
like @font-face inside a @media rule. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/media.html#at-media-rule

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote on 2013-03-20:

The problem was indeed the @media rule (calibre supports specifying the
media via the <html> link tag, but not inside the css itself). I've added
support for @media rules in the css.

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Kovid Goyal (kovid) wrote on 2013-03-20: Fixed in lp:calibre

Fixed in branch lp:calibre. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every Friday.

status fixreleased