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Originally Posted by Analoggab
Hey Jackie! Nice to see you back. 
I'll test out the XPDF program when I get home.
I had tested various online pdftotext solutions ( like this) but with mixed results. Perhaps the conversion engine is not as good. |
I think many (most?) of them get rid of leading spaces, which is exactly what you
don't want. The XPDF pdftotext utility, using the -layout option, does exactly what you need,
if you can make it work on the Mac. The reason I switched to this utility is that a simple PDF Select all>Copy>Paste into a TXT file retained leading spaces only for some PDFs -- even on Windows. It probably depends on how the PDF was created in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Analoggab
Have you had success going from the edited html with the <pre> tags directly to epub?
Strangely, using your attached html in this thread, I only had success going from html >*Mobi >*epub. But html >*epub directly never seem to work. Default settings.
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Yes, a direct zip-->epub calibre conversion works for me. No interim mobi required. If you can't make it work, if you like you can send me a PM with a link to your manually-created html file and we'll take it from there.