View Single Post
Old 07-18-2012, 07:27 AM   #29
kiwidude
Calibre Plugins Developer
kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.kiwidude ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Posts: 4,733
Karma: 2197770
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Australia
Device: Kindle Oasis
Quote:
Originally Posted by rocketdocs View Post
@kiwidude - I've read a few of the stickies and posts about the "limitations" of the PDF format, but they are only limitations as it pertains to calibre and not PDF itself.
I'm afraid your credibility is plummeting like a stone with an opening statement like that. If converting PDFs was an issue limited to calibre's implementation the sticky would simply read "use XYZ tool for converting PDFs instead".

Why does it not say that? Because there isn't a tool on the market that anyone else who has ever come across these forums has seen that can consistently convert them with any reliability. Not even commercial tools from Adobe, the people who surely know more about the PDFs than anyone else. This is not a calibre issue, it is a "PDF is a print format" issue.

Now to be fair I haven't used your particular tool, nor seen the before/after examples that it produces. And perhaps there is something specific about going from Word to PDF which is letting you bypass some of the traditional PDF conversion issues to do with fonts, unicode, ligatures, layout, headers and footers, OCR issues, scene breaks, tables, lack of paragraph structure and whatever else I am forgetting. But until I saw such a thing for myself I stand by my comments that your typical user should not see PDFs as a saviour for a general conversion workflow.
kiwidude is offline   Reply With Quote