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Originally Posted by jordan0
Is there a reason the progress bar is notoriously bad at keeping the user informed about the actual progress of the conversion? If it's step-wise then each phase should be separated into different progress bars with specific ETAs.
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I would guess that 99.99% of conversions are done within a minute or two on a modest computer, hence users don't even look at the Jobs Queue. So a more sophisticated progress indicator would only be useful on 1 in 10,000 conversions.
But the source code is available, so... you know the rest
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Why do you want to convert to PDF?
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Originally Posted by jordan0
Why is that relevant, sorry?
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Perhaps because he knows there other ways to convert PDFs. See ==>>
Read this before Posting PDF Questions
I convert up to a dozen PDF's a day, I have neither the time nor the inclination to seek an optimal solution for each PDF, I've found the following suits
me best...
I drop PDF's into MobiCreator, if the resultant PRC is in good shape I convert it to EPUB and fix with an EPUB editor (Sigil or calibre's book editor), if the PRC is in poor shape I convert it to RTF and bash that into shape in Word, using the eBook Tools Add-in for Word (thread in Workshop forum) and my 20+ years-worth of macros. I save as DOCX and convert that to EPUB. Either way I end up with an adequate EPUB.
If your objective is get something that better suits an ereader, another alternative is bend the PDF into a different shape using the K2pdfopt program (see stickie in PDF forum).
BR