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Old 01-21-2016, 05:18 PM   #48
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
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Have fun with your SVG conversions -- I am happy not to have to bother.
It may not be impossible, but it is going to be Work (with a capital "W") nonetheless.
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a lot of work has been done in the past few years:
https://bitbucket.org/petermr/
(that is a 'funded' conversion project)

but I do notice that epub support has not had any attention in the past two years.

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Yeah, I stumbled into a few of those 'for fee' services today.
But I did take advantage of one 'on-line, try it' offer on a 32 page technical PDF with equations, timing diagrams, tables, and other difficult things to represent.

I haven't had a chance to study the result yet.

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We don't (yet) know if the books that "converters don't work on" are vector graphic or bit map page images.
I suspect bit map images.

The conversion of bit map -> vector graphics is no small problem.
It can be done, but the really good ones are still in the super computer class.
Which is an advance, I can remember when it (bm -> vg) was used as an example of a problem that could not be solved with a computer.
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