Thread: Troubleshooting Converting PDF fails
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Old 11-14-2010, 03:20 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by garfieldus View Post
hey there,

I recently tried to print a file from OpenOffice.org Writer 3.1.1 through CUPS' Generic PS filter. I got a PostScript and converted it to PDF via ps2pdf.
Everything's fine so far, but when I send the PDF (see attachment) to amazon's converter, I only receive get an empty page at my kindle.

Perhaps somebody has an idea or already some experience, why this fails.

(Exporting a PDF from OOo is no alternative, as I wrote a backend for cups to automagically push printouts to my kindle)

best regards,
garfieldus
I looked at this with Acrobat's Content view. I can't do any successful word searches, only on individual letters. Something about your PDF creation workflow is busting the words up into 1 or 2 letter chunks (see screenshot). Since a successful conversion relies on being to identify word boundaries properly, this PDF can't be converted. I think you'll find other PDF conversion tools will have the same problem - but it might be worth trying a couple of alternatives (e.g. calibre).
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