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grep · 10-09-2011, 02:09 PM

What is the best approach to using Calibre to manage PDFs that have been split into PDF chapters in order to avoid the PDF file being too large?

Some ideas:

1) Ghostscript concatenate the chapers into one huge PDF file, adding appropriate PDF marks for chapters.

Much work to manually specify a PDF bookmark for starting page number of each chapter. Huge PDF files are not fun to open - maybe ok for small books.

2) Regex to parse the book title and chapter number as the "series" and "series_index" and the chapter title as "title", producing a separate row in Calibre for each chapter.

Chapter-split books dominate normal books in the listing. May work to create a separate library for "chapterised" books.

3) Import a ZIP file containing the PDF chapters.

Well, ok, provided its quick to open chapters from the archive without loading the whole thing into memory.

Any better ideas?

10-09-2011, 02:09 PM	#1
grep Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: Kindle PaperWhite	Managing PDF files that are split into chapters What is the best approach to using Calibre to manage PDFs that have been split into PDF chapters in order to avoid the PDF file being too large? Some ideas: 1) Ghostscript concatenate the chapers into one huge PDF file, adding appropriate PDF marks for chapters. Much work to manually specify a PDF bookmark for starting page number of each chapter. Huge PDF files are not fun to open - maybe ok for small books. 2) Regex to parse the book title and chapter number as the "series" and "series_index" and the chapter title as "title", producing a separate row in Calibre for each chapter. Chapter-split books dominate normal books in the listing. May work to create a separate library for "chapterised" books. 3) Import a ZIP file containing the PDF chapters. Well, ok, provided its quick to open chapters from the archive without loading the whole thing into memory. Any better ideas? Last edited by grep; 10-09-2011 at 02:11 PM. Reason: Cleanup