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Old 01-22-2011, 04:00 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by JGB View Post

Does this work better than caliber's internal PDF-EPUB?
Or is Caliber's built in PDF converter better? I kind of liked the idea of printing the PDF file to the correct size for my ebook with acrobat, and using that if it is more likely to remain clean and usable, but would doing this first improve the conversion any within Caliber? In the end I'll always use caliber for what I can since it just rocks, but I want to get the best quality EPUB I can from my .pdfs.
First the disclaimer - I am the creator of pdf2epub plugin for Acrobat.

The software should give you better results than Calibre on several dimensions - better retention of font properties (font class/ color/ size), better paragraph and other text structure detection, and retention of PDF bookmarks as navigation TOC in ePub.

The solution uses Tags in PDF to drive the conversion process. So if your sources are Tagged PDFs, the results will likely be substantially different than Calibre's.
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