06-01-2010, 09:57 AM | #1 |
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Converting PDF
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I have about 10 PDF ebooks on my PC at the moment. I bought my kindle last week and I am waiting for it to arrive. From what I understand I must convert these to a different format so the text can be resized in the Kindle making them more readable. What program should I use? Regards, Cantona PS. The PDF's are all text, no diagrams. |
06-01-2010, 10:12 AM | #2 |
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Mobipocket Creator Publisher edition does a decent job of converting PDF to mobi format. I then use Calibre to convert to RTF and edit that file using MS Office. There are generally a lot of line breaks instead of paragraph marks and line breaks at the end of every line for certain chapters that I fix in Office and then convert the cleaned up RTF file back to mobi in Calibre. If you are not picky about formatting you may be happy with just the first run through from Mobipocket Creator. Both Mobipocket Creator and Calibre are free software that you can find using google and you could use about any word processing program to edit an RTF file. When you install Mobipocket Creator there are 2 options, choose Publisher edtion or there will not be an option for Adobe PDF.
I've tried several different programs to convert PDF and this has worked best for me overall. I think the kindle can read pdf files now but have never tried this. You could find more info about that in the kindle forum. |
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06-01-2010, 11:53 AM | #4 |
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For all text PDFs, try PDFReflow, which will take a PDF, reflow it, and create an output HTML document. You can find PDFReflow in the PDF forum here on MobileRead. You can then use Calibre to create an ebook for your kindle.
Calibre will take a PDF and convert it to kindle format all by itself, but it currently doesn't reflow as well as PDFReflow. |
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