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Old 01-21-2011, 01:08 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by bminata View Post
I've just upgraded to Calibre 7.40 and when I try to convert from MOBI, EPUB, LIT or other formats to PDF it yields a really huge file. A 500K MOBI file or a 2.5MB EPUB creates a 125MB PDF. I think this is not normal. Is this a known bug?
Are you on an Apple computer? It seems that for some reason calibre on OSX creates image based PDF files. Where conversions done on Linux or Windows produces a standard text pdf. This goes unreported because folks converting to PDF via calibre are a rare breed.
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