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Originally Posted by exaltedwombat
Thanks for the interest.
Yes, there's always going to be an element of "doing it by hand" - we've all seen the results when automation gas been completely relied on :-)
I'll certainly try Mobipocket Creator. With Calibre I'm getting nearly faultless text transfer (some ligatures, particularly ff, seem to fool it). My main job is checking through for extra paragraph breaks. Do you feel Mobipocket Creator will make a better job of these, sumguy?
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exaltedwombat - My default is try Mobipocket creator first - look at the PRC and decide if its worth doing this
I have Word macros to take care of the common things, broken paragraphs, ligatures, page footers etc. I convert the PRC to RTF in calibre, read the RTF into Word, run the macros, save as DOCX and convert that to EPUB. If its 'near' enough then I'll open the DOCX in Word and apply some styles, get rid of all tabs and superfluous newlines etc. If necessary I do fine tuning with the new calibre Editor or Sigil.
If its not I might have a go with calibre or PDF Nitro, although most often I'll decide its not worth the effort and settle for only having the original PDF.
I don't even try converting complex PDF 'books' with embedded tables, graphs, sidebars etc.
BR