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Originally Posted by roffLOL
But for magazines you can't really expect a double column either, might as well be three or more, and maqazines often follow a weird logical structure, so even if the columns were identified, appending them in correct order would be errorprone.
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For the most popular magazines this is true, but there are classes of mags where this two columns is quite common. Science Fiction and other writing oriented mags for example. It's also a very common format in academic journals. I believe that the only thing the new pdf engine attempts to support is two column.
Not sure which part of your progress is hitting snags, but the new pdf engine in Calibre does an initial conversion from pdf to xml using compiled code. The XML retains all the critical formatting information. The output Calibre produces today does not use the XML I'm talking about. You need to use calibre from the CLI with debug enabled - add the argument --new-pdf-engine if you want to see what I'm talking about.