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Old 08-18-2014, 11:08 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by ittiandro View Post
Thanks for the link. I downloaded the Moby Pocket software. Unfortunately, it is of no use to solve my problem. It does not even let me import the PDF files to try the conversion, IF THERE IS A CONVERSION FEATURE.
Somebody said PDF is the crappiest of all. May be, in terms of size, because they are really huge. For the rest,all my K2PDFOPT converted books read fine. I just wanted to convert to EPUB to reduce the size, but it didn'work with Calibre. May be there is another software I can try. So my original question remains.
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Ittiandro
It's not so much the size, as the fact that internally, PDF text is represented by a bunch of individual paragraphs (instead of lines) floating on a page, with additional code to place it somewhere. In the worst cases, the lines are totally mixed up, and dropcaps are always misplaced. Headers/footers are the norm, which leaves random text sprawled all over the book, and PDF "cropping" tools usually only hide it instead of removing it. NO formatting beyond basic bold/italics stuff can be preserved -- because the PDF never had it to begin with. And other problems.

There are suggestions and workarounds in the linked thread. Mostly, you should just be aware that there is no software, nothing, that will turn a PDF into a decent ebook without at least some manual tweaking. (Barring a miracle and a really lucky PDF that is very simple.)
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