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Originally Posted by sam.selikoff
Devastating.
Maybe I could copy the pages of the PDF to pages in a Word/Pages document as inline images, add titles, and then convert to epub.
Any thoughts on how to automate this process? Also, do you by any chance know which Pages titles will create chapter markers when converted to epub?
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Pages generates TOC from text that uses one of the TOC Paragraph Styles. However, unless I'm missing something, it won't export the TOC to ePub (I get a warning about 'some features like tables' not getting exported).
Open Office can also export ePub (not sure about its recent offshoot, LibreOffice - perhaps the OO ePub extension is compatible?). I don't know if either can export a linked TOC.
But you might first try using
calibre to convert the PDF directly to mobi format (after cropping any headers/footers). Calibre can generate a TOC based on some pattern matching (customizable). To read on Kindle, you'll have to convert ePub to mobi anyway, and calibre can do that also if you wind up going that route.
In general, PDF is probably the worst format to start with if you want to create nicely reflowable content. And rather than using an intermediate format like .doc, it is probably better to go directly to XHTML, provided you have some HTML skills and tools. But it is so painful to achieve the quality I desire, that I usually give up and just live with the limitations of Kindle's PDF viewer.