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Originally Posted by VeryWellAged
Sir - there comes a time when hubris, arrogance and just plain orneriness, blinds you to the fact, that your bright idea does not work for all needs. There is no way I can use ePub as my master. I have no interest in going over all of that here. However epub does not support pagination and formatting that goes into the PDF version which is based on a word file which pulls from a master document which contains the core text. It does not support the HTML formatting I need, which is also part of another word document which pulls from the same master word doc. That you, and JSWolf, may be unfamiliar with these techniques is not my concern.
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ePub does support pagination. Going Word > PDF > other formats is going to make the process of getting your eBooks done very difficult. When you convert from PDF, you have to A/B compare the PDF source to the conversion to make sure it is correct as there is no PDF conversion method that will get a novel length PDF converted without any errors.
Sometimes you have to go with what you can do instead of exactly what you want. What sort of formatting is it that you want that you cannot get done with ePub?
I have some experience with converting from Word to ePub and I have seen the resulting uncleaned up conversion be a right mess. It needed to be cleaned up by hand in order to have the code be neat enough to edit easily and to fix some things that did not come out as wanted. There are now tools by Toxaris that will help clean up Word documents before you convert, but even still, you might have to do some hand editing after that.
The idea is to do it in a way that provides the least amount of redoing and the best looking output you can get. PDF in the mix isn't good and Word can be messy at times. It's not a problem here if you want to do things the hard way. I wish you luck doing so.