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mgrunk · 11-10-2010, 08:08 PM

I have a customer (as in I really don't get paid, but I'm trying to help her out w/ her magazine). She produces via Adobe InDesign a very beautiful magazine w/ lots of graphics. The original print format is about 5 1/2 X 8 3/4 (half of a 8 1/2 X 11) long ways.

I'm trying to help her bring the magazine to book readers. What she's sending me is a beautiful .pdf but when I run it through calibre's converter, it's not preserving any of that format.

So, I wondered if you had suggestions as to a format she might save it in or what specifications she'd use in InDesign so that I could use calibre to output to the various book reader formats.

Sorry if this is not the right place for the question or it's too basic.

11-10-2010, 08:08 PM	#1
mgrunk Zealot Posts: 130 Karma: 96 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: metro Atlanta, GA Device: Sony Reader PRS-505	need help converting .pdf to other formats I have a customer (as in I really don't get paid, but I'm trying to help her out w/ her magazine). She produces via Adobe InDesign a very beautiful magazine w/ lots of graphics. The original print format is about 5 1/2 X 8 3/4 (half of a 8 1/2 X 11) long ways. I'm trying to help her bring the magazine to book readers. What she's sending me is a beautiful .pdf but when I run it through calibre's converter, it's not preserving any of that format. So, I wondered if you had suggestions as to a format she might save it in or what specifications she'd use in InDesign so that I could use calibre to output to the various book reader formats. Sorry if this is not the right place for the question or it's too basic.