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Hi,
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Am I missing something?
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Yes, but it's not your fault. PDF is based on postScript - a great printer language, and a lousy ebook format.
Page breaks in a pdf are positioned when there's not enough room on the paper to display the next line of text. They are in the middle of sentences, etc. so you don't normally want them in an ebook. Your breaks weren't "lost" they were removed. Calibre can often put in the breaks you want by looking for certain words, like "Chapter."
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page numbers, where the old pdf page breaks used to be have been inserted into the resulting ePub,
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These weren't "inserted." They were there from the start. PDF format makes no distinction between text in the header, footer or page number and regular text in the body of the book. In fact, PDF has no real concept of a sentence. It just puts characters at specified locations on the paper. Converters, like Calibre have to try to reconstruct the sentence by looking for the period or capital letters.
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however the page numbers are NOT aligned with the ePub document page breaks.
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They wouldn't be. The page numbers in the text of the PDF corresponded to the paper size. You have to do some work to remove them.
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So, i now have different page breaks, than the original pdf, and pager numbers in the middle of pages/paragraphs.
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PDF is a lousy ebook format. Your best option is not to start with a PDF. If you have no choice, then your second best option is to read the PDF and not convert. If you have to convert, then you're stuck trying to fix up the PDF in the conversion by setting the remove header/footer options and adjusting the unwrap factor.
Good luck.