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Old 12-15-2010, 03:47 PM   #7
gertblij
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gertblij has learned how to buy an e-book online
 
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Originally Posted by Starson17 View Post
PDF is based on Postscript, which is a printer language, and Word is designed to create printable documents. It's expected that the PDF will look correct, just as you expect Word to print correctly.


Yes. PDF is a horrible ebook format and it's hard to get anything useful out of that format once a book is in it.
Thanks Starson17. I appreciate your prompt responses. However, they are not very helpful. I am not a techie like you and am dependent on software to work. 100,000 reasons why it won't work doen't solve my problem.

Calibre offers "PDF to other formats" conversion. I love it. However, I apreciate that there are meny technical reasons that E does not equal MC2, but then say so. Just say, "please expect the output to be different from the input" and I'll stop trying/wasting time. That simple.

BTW, I have stopeed trying and consider this thread as closed.

Thanks for all the effort.

PS
Up front apologies if frustration shows. But I am tired (physically) and frustrated from spending many hours trying to get somewhere without moving one inch/cm
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