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trisha.moore · 02-20-2011, 08:11 PM

Hello all,

I too have noticed of late that many of my PDF's are suffering the same issue, ie alternating lines, random placing of letters and numbers. For a week or so I thought I had just had some bad files come my way, although one particular book I've been trying to read was very very messed up, so I opened the original PDF imported it into Calibre that I had luckily not deleted yet and quickly realized that there was nothing wrong with the original file. No alternating lines, misplaced letters, all was well.

Somehow, just by pointing Calibre to see the file it has converted it, but I never asked it to convert. Is there a way for Calibre to "See" my files and add them into the database/catalog without stripping it down and turning into some frankenfile? I'm perfectly ok with calibre being unable to currently convert certain pdf's to other formats, but I'm not trying to convert them...

Any help would be appreciated!

02-20-2011, 08:11 PM	#10
trisha.moore Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: kindle 3	extension of this question... Hello all, I too have noticed of late that many of my PDF's are suffering the same issue, ie alternating lines, random placing of letters and numbers. For a week or so I thought I had just had some bad files come my way, although one particular book I've been trying to read was very very messed up, so I opened the original PDF imported it into Calibre that I had luckily not deleted yet and quickly realized that there was nothing wrong with the original file. No alternating lines, misplaced letters, all was well. Somehow, just by pointing Calibre to see the file it has converted it, but I never asked it to convert. Is there a way for Calibre to "See" my files and add them into the database/catalog without stripping it down and turning into some frankenfile? I'm perfectly ok with calibre being unable to currently convert certain pdf's to other formats, but I'm not trying to convert them... Any help would be appreciated!