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Originally Posted by MGadAllah
Hi,
I've a lot of .mobi and .epub ebooks and I need to print the books to study.
Thanks
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There's another process to convert epub/mobi to PDF. It requires more steps (open file with printing allowed, virtually print to a PDF file and cutting margins).
Maybe it's interesting just because of that: a intermediate step can solve anyone's problem (examples bellow on each step).
1st step - Open PDF using Sumatra PDF
Small advantages:
- SumatraPDF (free program) can open PDF, eBooks (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM and Comic Book (CBZ and CBR).
- It's very fast (even faster than Acrobat when opening a PDF).
Sumatra PDF runs on Windows (and Linux + Wine). It's available for Windows as installer and portable versions, both 32 and 64 bits
here and also as a PortableApp
here.
Download and install Sumatra PDF (or just download if you prefer portable version), click on menu (three horizontal lines on left top of window), go to "Settings" and "Advanced Options...".
It will open a txt file in Notepad. Search for "EbookUI [" (it must be in the beginning of file, so it's not hard to find). It is a section with particular settings to EPUB and MOBI files. You will see a line "UseFixedPageUI = false". Change "false" to "true", so it becomes "UseFixedPageUI = true".
Now open your epub/mobi file.
2st step - Generate PDF file
Small advantages:
- You will be able to generate a PDF file from any program with print option, including every office suite, internet browser and even Notepad!
- I suggest you to use Doro PDF Writer: it can generate PDFs with open, copy and paste or printing protection (password).
- A PDF file is standard for printing academic (University) documents. Word used to change document margins and footer notes depending on which printer was installed. A document writer on my computer will lose formatting when printing on a friend's house or bureau. I don't know if it still happens, but I don't doubt.
After opening the file, just print (Menu, File, Print).
Use the PDF printer of your choice, like
Doro PDF Writer (IMO the best, as I said above), Microsoft Print to PDF (bundle with Win10), Adobe PDF (paid), PDFCreator (free), etc.
3st step - Cut margins
Small advantages:
- You can cut margins of PDF files prior to transfer to your Kindle/Kobo/etc. device, making better use of device's screen (I suppose it's a book you have in PDF or scanned PDF but not in a better file type as epub or mobi).
- You can cut headers (in general title of book and chapter) and footers (number of page) in a PDF, so these off-text informations don't get mixed with text after converted to epub/mobi.
Download Briss
here or
here.
Unzip it. Run it (briss-0.9.exe), click File, Load and choose PDF.
A dialog will open asking for pages "excluded from merging" (that is: pages excluded from cutting margin). For example, if you don't want to cut margins of cover, you can write "1", but usually we just click Cancel.
A window with blue rectangles will open and you can accept these automatic settings or add, remove, change size of them.
When ready, click Action, Preview to (duh!) get a preview, or Action, Crop to make changes. Save file.
Thanks for reading,
Raphael Romero Barbosa