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Originally Posted by Anne Marie Weiss
Hi Mitch and Chris and friends. Many thanks to all who responded to my query. EUREKA! I appreciate your suggestions, and actually, the solution was not hard (although somewhat occult.)
My challenge was HOW TO CONVERT A PDF TEXT FOR READING ON KINDLE (USING CALIBRE). The document was exported from an Excel database, and the two export options were pdf or rtf. As others have noted on internet forums, a serious spacing problem frequently occurs during this conversion. How to avoid maintain the desired line spacing?
CONCLUSIONS
1. PDF is an image and cannot be successfully converted for e-reader. AVOID pdfs. (and any 'expert' who suggests this path.)
2. There is no need to export to rtf. In fact, it's a waste of time, as the resulting line and page breaks and page size indicators will all need to be manually removed. AVOID rtfs.
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Some PDF files are an image, some are text, some are an image with a text layer underneath. Text based PDF's can be successfully converted. Text based PDF can also be reflowed for reading purposes on smaller screens if the reader can do this. But if your goal is to repeat spacing then then they are not the best source.
RTF is an exchange format between word processing programs. As an exchange format it is fine. It does preserve paragraphs, italics, bold and other specific document data. It can be pulled into word just fine. It is much better than just creating a pure txt file from the PDF, which is also an option.