Thread: Screenplay Format for Kindle
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Old 05-08-2012, 11:52 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by mcforman View Post
it seems as though there are specific settings that will get the format pretty close...
No, there are not any such magic settings.

PDF is an extremely flexible and complex format. There are a vast number of different ways to structure a PDF file. Hence, there is not and never will be an easy reliable conversion process. Trial-and-Terror experimenting with the conversion settings to find the best settings for each file and then manual editing of the results will always be the only way.

When converting for Kindle/Mobi its generally considered best to convert to some editable intermediary format. Editing that conversion to fix the flaws you can't find conversion settings to deal with and then converting the edited file to MOBI. Generally ePub and HTML are the preferred editable intermediary formats. RTF is also a reasonable choice.
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