http://www.mobileread.com/forums Need to convert into a specific e-book format not mentioned above? Discuss it and its tools here en Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:23:55 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.mobileread.com/feeds/images/mr/misc/logo.gif http://www.mobileread.com/forums http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61140&goto=newpost Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:25:36 GMT I'm sure this has been covered before, but I'm not sure what search terms I'd use to dig it up.

Scans of books made by Google, Microsoft, and others seem to be in multiple layers per page, with at least 2 layers that I can see-- one of mostly just text (and other areas of black) and one of mostly just every other color. Done, I assume, to make OCRing easier. When you open a PDF file, you can often see the background layer appear before the text/black is overlaid on it. Which is fine, when you are just viewing it as a PDF.

But how do you convert that to other formats and have it look correct? I have a series of public-domain booklets that I gathered together several months ago from various archives (some on Google, some the Internet archives, etc.) They work as PDFs on my Sony Reader, but page changes are slooooooow. So I wanted to convert them all to EPUBs (for myself and to share.) Calibre failed utterly in converting them correctly. I have a full retail copy of an ancient version of Acrobat (version 5) which allows full editing of PDFs, but-- on this old version, at least, when I export the pages they are exporting as their individual layers, with the "black" layer garbled and useless.

Anyone have a solution? These are the files:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/okec99 ]]> Other formats ardeegee http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61140 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59856&goto=newpost Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:48:00 GMT Two files have recently landed on my desktop, which is where I download everything to, but I don't know what they're for. I googled them and found that they are something to do with ebooks. What am I supposed to do with them?

I suspect it's an epub thing, but this doesn't help much when I don't know how to play with them. :smack:

Any help appreciated. I'm not much of a techie. :thanks: ]]> Other formats BookCat http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59856 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59478&goto=newpost Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:41:54 GMT Hey guys , i have a few pdb files that i bought thinking they would open on adobe , i dont have an handheld devices or readers though now ive realised i need these. i have no money atm so cant buy any either , does anyone know how to covert to pdf or html etc? they're quite important on my course atm. ]]> Other formats Pr0tract0r http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59478 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58736&goto=newpost Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:40:13 GMT I use OpenOffice as my primary document creator. It allows me to save as doc., pdf., pdb. and other formats. My problem is that the pdb.format displays Esperanto characters as ???. Does anyone know a way to have these display correctly? Thanks, Pensaro1. :blink: I use OpenOffice as my primary document creator. It allows me to save as doc., pdf., pdb. and other formats. My problem is that the pdb.format displays Esperanto characters as ???. Does anyone know a way to have these display correctly? Thanks, Pensaro1. :blink: ]]> Other formats pensaro1 http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58736