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Old 03-21-2015, 08:16 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by TheWitchDoctor View Post
I've tried it and the result was far from perfect - different sizes of letters, page numbers woven into the main text, these amongst other things. How should I do it to do it right and to be able to be happy with fluent and unproblematic Kindle format or epub?
@TheWitchDoctor - firstly have a read of this ==>> Read this before Posting PDF Questions

I convert several dozen PDF's a week. I've settled on using MobiCreator to convert to PRC/HTML for most things - it may not be the best tool, but it produces predictable results for the public domain documents I convert. For most documents I do the major tidying up in Word (where I have a large collection of macros that I've written, purchased and leeched over the last 20+ years). I save as DOCX and convert that to EPUB - could just as easily be AZW3.

If I can't get a decent result from MobiCreator (I can usually predict when I won't) I usually give up, likely as not the document is multi-column, has text boxes, infographics or other stuff that's hard to shoehorn into an EPUB. Sometimes I've used the k2pdfopt program (see the MR PDF forum) to good effect. Otherwise I live with the PDF as is.

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