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Originally Posted by qprfan99
Hi gents
Now I know everybody says that there are often problems converting pdf files & they explain why & sometimes suggest remedies. Unfortunately I usually have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
The manual, most of the time, is just complete gibberish to me (I just read something - "This expression is rather complex" - I just had to laugh; rather complex? it's a foreign language!)
Now I love Calibre & I love my Kindle & for reasons best kept to myself, .pdf files are the ones I usually have to deal with.
I'm generally not bothered too much about the outputted format (spaces etc) but lately I have had some books which give just one line a page, occasionally just a letter per page sometimes a part of a para. Some others just print it in alternate lines i.e. has to be read Line 1, then Line 3, then Line 2, then Line 4 (which removed the middle portion of the line to Line 5) & then on to Line 6.
Even I couldn't read a book like that!
So could somebody please take pity on a helpless old man? Is there a quick fix that a Luddite like me could understand & cope with?
Thanks for any help you can give
Larry
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If it really is a multi-column Pdf as itimpi suggests try the Mobipocket creator.
It is freeware and quite easy to use
-Download here:
http://www.mobipocket.com/en/downloa...oadCreator.asp
-Install the professional version
-On the home page select "import from existing File -> Adobe PDF"
-Select input and Output folder, then press import
-On the next window "Publication files" select "Build" in the tool bar
-Next window "Build publication" select "no compression" and "no encryption" then hit the "Build" icon and wait until conversion is finished
The results were quite satisfactory in my case, each 10 or 15 pages there are one or two lines that got mixed up, but even these were traceable as they were quite close to each other
If Mobipocket doesn't work as well, I would suggest the PDFtoEPUB Converter, which -despite his name- can also create MOBI files,also with mostly good results.This tool is so selfexplaining to use, should be no problem at all.
PDFtoEPUB was downloadable for free in a limited quantity here:
http://www.pdftoepub.com/, but I don't know if still available.
If all this fails or is too complicated, set all your hopes on Kovid Goyal, who is presently working on a new PDF engine for Calibre, but will take approximately another half year or more to finish.
Hope this can help