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No original books were hurt at all. Calibre makes copies. It never damages originals.
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Truth sir, although:
My library is over 30g, as I understood the process calibre would do nothing but database my files in an orderly fashion and change the naming format/add metadata- like itunes does (is supposed to)-when I added them to the library. In the name of saving space I didn't think it was necessary to keep 2 copies of everything in 2 different places. Obviously it was out of pure stupidity that I didn't open every single file before chucked the unorganized, poorly named files. Like I said I wasn't converting anything, just adding to the library so I didn't think it was detrimental. Now I have a wonderfully organized database of subPar reading!
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In Preferences->Behaviour, make sure you can unset the 'Use internal viewer for' pdf, the when you try to view a pdf from calibre it will open your default pdf viewer - which should show it properly.
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I tried that. As to which viewer I'm using, they don't view well in any viewer, I wish it were only a problem of the viewer I were using!
@Starson17, while I appreciate the anecdote, telling me that none of your files are harmed doesn't really have any bearing on my situation when I'm talking about how mine are disfunctioning lol
I'm happy for you, sincerely, mine are still all messed up! I've read countless problems on boards everywhere about PDF's in Calibre, I"m not making this problem up.
@Manichean, I could send you two files? I'm not into posting things :/ My most recent tragedy is a good example, while still readable you can immediately see that the file has been hugely altered.
Perhaps I'm simply completely wrong about the function of calibre. Perhaps it isn't a databasing tool at all, but a conversion tool. I still don't understand why I would want to let a program perform a pdf to crappily formatted pdf conversion before I asked it to do the pdf > mobi conversion I actually want... As many before me have said, including in this post, mobipocket does not do this. It takes the pdf I give it, as is, and converts. Too bad it doesn't database well.
Is there a pure ebook databaser out there? Something that will simply alter metadata and organize in folders, but never, ever, touch my actual files?