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Originally Posted by willus
@Jorram -- thank you for the post and nice comments. Unfortunately I have little first hand experience with calibre or MOBI files. But there should be a number of experts here at MR. I wonder if your post wouldn't be better off in the MOBI sub-forum? You could request that a moderator move it if you think so. Hopefully some others will chime in.
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Thanks, Willus. I will do that, but first I tried to convert one of the more bothersome PDFs that I have. It's all over the place - pictures, boxes, columns, inconsistent margins, etc.
k2pdfopt did a pretty good job but it's still more unusable than usable so I was wondering if you could offer me some advice. Here are the problems I encountered:
1) The search is absolutely broken, at least in Adobe Reader. I wasn't able to find any phrase correctly - at all times the wrong places are highlighted. Wondering how this would behave on the Kindle itself. No idea how to fix this either.
2) The images are broken down and misplaced. I have attached a screenshot to illustrate this. You'd think it happens because the image is close to the page border but this is not the case - virtually all images are broken down in the same way, regardless of their position.
3) Some formatting is handled badly, in particular columns - my second screenshots shows this effect.
4) The cover (the first page) is gone entirely. I can't figure out why would that be.
I used the native pdf output and mostly kept everything default I think.
Any clues?
Thanks!