Thread: conversion from azw4 to epub did not go well
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Old 07-01-2017, 11:45 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by eliot1785 View Post
That's good to know that I should avoid converting to ePub. That's a shame though because that's supposed to be the standard format. ...
There is nothing about PDF being a "standard format" that would imply that it is any good for conversion to other formats.

Adobe's original design for PDF was for PDF to be a display only format, screen or printer. Originally, they had absolutely no intention to support any alteration of a PDF. They felt that the immutability of a PDF was one of it major features.

While Adobe has, somewhat begrudgingly, added support for a variety of "editing" actions over the decades, the basic core design of the PDF format makes it, now and forever, an extremely difficult to convert to any reflowable ebook or wordprocessing format.
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