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Originally Posted by Shohreh
1. Are "Native PDF output" and "Re-flow text" related? I notice they are mutually exclusive, and sometimes are only available in certain modes
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Sorry for the late reply. "Native PDF" means the output consists of the original PDF source and then each page is just a sequence of cropped regions from that source material. To do that at the re-flow level is not practical--too many cropboxes and would overload most readers. The other option is that k2pdfopt simply builds a simple bitmap of each output page, so in that case re-flow works fine. That's why they are mutually exclusive.
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Originally Posted by Shohreh
2. Under the hood, what is "reflow text", really? Does it mean that k2pdfopt will move text blocks leftward + downward, combine them into a single page before turning it from native PDF to a bitmap?
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That's right. k2pdfopt determines word locations and then re-organizes the words on each bitmapped page to fit the page size best. If you use the -sm option, you can get more of an idea of what it is doing.
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Originally Posted by Shohreh
3. Would I have more chance converting a PDF into EPUB if I first run it through k2optpdf before opening its simplified output into Calibre and export as EPUB?
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These are my (dated)
comments on epub conversion.
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Originally Posted by Shohreh
Is there a way to really remove the cropped data so it's gone in the output PDF?
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You started a
thread on hard trimming PDFs not long ago.