Thread: Import Failed? Can't convert JPG PDFs?
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Old 08-08-2008, 11:49 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by Tef61 View Post
Anyone? Are there even any references for just getting a plain image flattened PDF to convert with Mobipocket Creator?
What's in the PDF?

When you give Mobi Creator a PDF as input, it attempts to open it and extract the text and images, and generates an HTML file that it uses to build the Mobi book (a Mobipocket book is essentially encapsulated HTML).

It works fairly well for normal PDFs with text and illustrations, as long as the PDFs are single column without a lot of fancy formatting. For technical reasons, images in a Mobi book can't be larger than 64K in size, but Creator will attempt to resize things to fit.

If the PDF you are dealing with is simply a collection of images with no text, you may be feeding Creator something it can't deal with.
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