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Originally Posted by fernandoch
What is the best way to convert my PDFs to be read on my Kindle 3?
I converted a couple with Mobipocket Creator, but some images were lost. The text was all well converted.
Any advices?
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The html + images in Mobipocket creator are stored in the same directory. You can re-insert the images by open up an HTML editor and insert the images.
My first attempt is always to just crop the PDF margins with a tool like BRISS or reformat the PDF with tools like PaperCrop(the final result is an images PDF--so they are much larger)
Unless it's a PDF I know I want to annotate, hence convert to MOBI or a text only PDF, then I do the following:
Here is my work process.
1) Generate the HTML with MobiPocket Creator.
2) Open up the HTML with firefox and cut-n-paste to BookCreator
3) Beautify the text, images, generate TOC
4) Create the book within BookCreator.
Text only PDF takes about 10min. Image/graphic based PDFs take about an hour.
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Originally Posted by neonbible
I agree, Briss is the way to go.
Almost all of my PDF conversions needed some post processing as well. Here is my workflow:
1) Open in Briss and crop borders, headers, footers and page numbers. Save to new PDF.
2) Email and convert to AZW using my free Kindle email account.
3) Import to Calibre and convert to EPUB.
4) Open epub in Sigil to hand edit and tidy the book. Remove Calibre's title page. Build TOC.
5) Import again into Calibre, add meta-data and cover, reconvert to EPUB and then finally to MOBI ready to be loaded onto the Kindle.
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BRISS does a "view" only crop, it actually does not truly crop the PDF. You would have to use tools like soPDF or Cute PDF to truly crop the margins.