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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I'm thinking the source is PDF and that maybe this book is not legit. I've read of these sorts of problems but the book in question did turn out to not be legit. So please wait until we find out what's going on before trying to help.
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I've read about people stabbing other people, but I don't assume everyone who has a knife in their kitchen is a criminal.
As in all facets of life, we should assume innocence until there's some proof of guilt. It's both cynical and antithetical to basic tenets of due process to assume guilt, especially on the basis of something as threadbare as “it's a PDF conversion”. Legitimate PDFs are commonplace. And unless there's some evidence of malfeasance, it's none of our business where someone got their books from—it's not really even an appropriate question to ask, IMO (there may be legitimate privacy reasons they don't want to disclose that information, be they health reasons, political, social, or other).
To the OP:
PDF is a tough format to convert. The ideal solution—as others have noted—is finding a better source file to convert (epub, mobi, azw, even HTML is often okay).
(Side note: If it's a technical paper you may be able to get your hands on the LaTeX source if you contact the author, which is often more easily converted, be it directly or via HTML.)
But if you're stuck with the PDF as the only source, and k2pdfopt isn't working, you could try converting in Calibre. Playing around with the heuristics tab and/or the unwrapping factor can often produce dramatically better results than the default conversion.