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Originally Posted by davidchavez
Hello everyone!
I am trying to convert PDF books into epub. Right now, the best way that I have seen in my case is to try to copy/paste in Sigil and then fix some formatting issues. I had lots of problems in InDesign, so that is why I have been following this.
The problem whenever I paste stuff in sigil from PDF or even from InDesign are two: - Bold and italics are lost.
- Lots of new lines are added into the content. Example: http://share.epiclemon.com/smL4
I wanted to know what is the best option for both. Right now, I am copy/pasting and manually deleting newlines and also adding bold or italics whenever is required, but this is too manual.
Is there a better way in doing this?
Thanks a lot for your suggestions! |
Read all the other posts, including Red's. They all have valuable info.
No offense, but you're doing this all backwards. I don't know why on earth you'd actually be copy-pasting from a PDF--the WORST possible source format for a eBook--instead of using INDD's built-in functionality. Export the source file to ePUB and/or HTML, and work with that.
If you're trying to find a push-button way, it doesn't exist. My business has literally done thousands of "PDF conversions" to ebooks, and to this day, our process is long and laborious, and tedious, at best. However, if you have the INDD source files, you're doing make-work.
What you are NOT going to be able to do, however, is do a process that's in "bookview." Or WYWISYG. Going from INDD->EPUB requires a knowledge of code. It's the only realistic way to go from A-->B. Or, really, from A->F, for all intents and purposes.
You're seeing that oddball line spacing because the PDF "paste" is regarding each and every line
as a paragraph. That's why you're seeing it that way, and if you'd flip to code view, you'd see that, I believe.
Right?
Hitch