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N13L5 · 09-24-2010, 02:07 AM

Regrettably, I'm stuck with a lot of books where I have only the PDF to start from.

For books that are just text, the Calibre conversion does a rather nice job. Certainly good enough to avoid converting to RTF and then doing lengthy manual editing.

I will shortly try the epub > epub conversion mentioned earlier and see if there are improvements to TOC layout or chapter recognition.

But my real problem are books that rely on a lot of graphics; like converting O'Reilly's "Hello Android" book to epub yields an unusable mess.

So, my new question is this:

What is the best of the formats supported by Calibre to initially convert a graphics heavy PDF book to? Just RTF and straight to Microsoft Word for manual fixing?

or RTF and straight to Open Office for manual fixing and then saving directly as FB2 ?

or a different strategy completely?

09-24-2010, 02:07 AM	#17
N13L5 tenjooberrymuds Posts: 58 Karma: 12 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Android	Regrettably, I'm stuck with a lot of books where I have only the PDF to start from. For books that are just text, the Calibre conversion does a rather nice job. Certainly good enough to avoid converting to RTF and then doing lengthy manual editing. I will shortly try the epub > epub conversion mentioned earlier and see if there are improvements to TOC layout or chapter recognition. But my real problem are books that rely on a lot of graphics; like converting O'Reilly's "Hello Android" book to epub yields an unusable mess. So, my new question is this: What is the best of the formats supported by Calibre to initially convert a graphics heavy PDF book to? Just RTF and straight to Microsoft Word for manual fixing? or RTF and straight to Open Office for manual fixing and then saving directly as FB2 ? or a different strategy completely?