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Xyo · 07-31-2011, 11:10 AM

^ Sorry, the title should read .pdf to .mobi. ^

Hey guys,

So for a while now I've had some books in .pdf format that I've wanted to put onto my kindle 3. I've done this with normal .pdfs, but these particular files are formatted with two columns of text per page. When I converted them to .mobi, it was jumbled, as you would expect.

So today I found out about the BRISS software that crops pdf files, and everything seemed to be going well (I now have a .pdf file of all the text in a single column, in order), but I'm still having issues.

As soon as I convert the .pdf to .mobi (using the most recent version of Calibre), everything goes wrong. The first thing I notice is that everything is there twice, like every page is duplicated. Second, bits of the text seem jumbled together somewhat. I can't quite figure out the pattern of how it was jumbled, but it's definitely messed up.

Oh and I also tried converting to .ePub, which gave the same result.

Has anyone got any idea why this is happening?

EDIT: It seems maybe the .pdf BRISS is producing is the problem. Only my pdf reader (foxit reader) seems to be able to read it normally, everything else reads it and jumbles things up.

07-31-2011, 11:10 AM	#1
Xyo Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: Kindle 3	Converting .pdf to ePub - Pages jumbled. ^ Sorry, the title should read .pdf to .mobi. ^ Hey guys, So for a while now I've had some books in .pdf format that I've wanted to put onto my kindle 3. I've done this with normal .pdfs, but these particular files are formatted with two columns of text per page. When I converted them to .mobi, it was jumbled, as you would expect. So today I found out about the BRISS software that crops pdf files, and everything seemed to be going well (I now have a .pdf file of all the text in a single column, in order), but I'm still having issues. As soon as I convert the .pdf to .mobi (using the most recent version of Calibre), everything goes wrong. The first thing I notice is that everything is there twice, like every page is duplicated. Second, bits of the text seem jumbled together somewhat. I can't quite figure out the pattern of how it was jumbled, but it's definitely messed up. Oh and I also tried converting to .ePub, which gave the same result. Has anyone got any idea why this is happening? EDIT: It seems maybe the .pdf BRISS is producing is the problem. Only my pdf reader (foxit reader) seems to be able to read it normally, everything else reads it and jumbles things up. Last edited by Xyo; 07-31-2011 at 12:27 PM.