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Old 01-12-2020, 08:31 PM   #4
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I'm not afraid of some hard work, if necessary.
Since you say that, here's what I'd do, if I wanted the pdf badly enough. Open the book in the editor. Select all those page files (hundreds?). Then right-click on the selected set of files and do "Merge selected text files". That will give you one big xhtml file. If there is a separate style sheet, copy the contents into the header inside <style> tags as usual. Export it. Open that in Libre Office Writer and save it as an odt. Then edit page-breaks and what have you to your heart's content, then export it as a pdf.

If you're a Word person, I'm sure you could do something similar, but I haven't touched Word in 10 years. (I know it works in Writer, since I've done basically the same thing on various books, for different reasons.) And maybe, just maybe, simply converting it to docx would work well enough to save all the other steps.
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