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Old 09-11-2008, 10:45 PM   #206
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
There is a really really good chance there are errors there. And unless you do a compare of the result to the PDF to find them, they'll remain. You can get split sentences, split paragraphs, & run on paragraphs. Oh and then there are the fi & fl errors that cause you to lose fi and fl depending on what software is used with the resulting file. It's a lot more work to make sure the PDF conversion is correct then just running it through Mobipocket Creator.
(That's in response to the advice to back-convert a PDF in Mobipocket Creator.)

Okay, I now see what you mean. I just got Sunborn in PDF from my Tor editor, and I ran it through Creator. Not nearly the seamless translation that Seas of Ernathe appeared to be. Everything that you mentioned above was true in the resulting file. It's a mess.

I fiddled with it some--a lot of the errors can be removed with global replace--but a lot can't. I may be going back to the manuscript file after all.

That's not today's problem, but I'll have to deal with it soon enough.
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