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Originally Posted by joebob2a
This book has come to be through a pretty roundabout process, as you might suspect. It was originally written in M$ Word/OpenOffice, sucked into Quark Express, and then output as PDF in print form. Many corrections had happened between the original word processing files and the Quark files. I used a web utility ( https://www.online-convert.com/) to get from PDF back to Word, but then I had the page header and footers to worry about, not to mention typesetting issues like no space after periods and embedded hyphens. I seriously don't want to go back to that! I have the original Quark source, but I haven't found a conversion tool to get it out of that format.
On the Smashwords site it talks about a "nuclear option," i.e. copy and paste the entire document into a Word document and re-convert it. I'm tinkering enough right now, I may go that direction. |
What you need to do is go back to whoever exported that PDF from QuarkExpress and get that exported as ePub (Qurk does export to ePub). Then you use Sigil or Calibre to fix it up from there. That's the best solution possible.