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BetterRed · 09-08-2020, 05:26 PM

@paperbackebook - Why convert the PDF to anything, PDF is the worse format to convert to EPUB or most anything else.

Have you tried using a different PDF viewer to Acrobat, not a browser based one like firefox or edge, they're half-baked. I switched to PDF-XChange because of Acrobat frustrations, this is its print dialogue.

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Or, if you have a recent edition of Word (2013 or later I think) try opening the PDF directly in it and print from there. It can produce surprisingly good results for some PDFs. On large PDFs it may run for a while (as in 10-20 minutes) and then fail, gracefully though.

IMO, conversion of PDF to HTML, or its derivatives, should only be done when all else fails.

BR

09-08-2020, 05:26 PM	#8
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 21,786 Karma: 30237628 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	@paperbackebook - Why convert the PDF to anything, PDF is the worse format to convert to EPUB or most anything else. Have you tried using a different PDF viewer to Acrobat, not a browser based one like firefox or edge, they're half-baked. I switched to PDF-XChange because of Acrobat frustrations, this is its print dialogue. Or, if you have a recent edition of Word (2013 or later I think) try opening the PDF directly in it and print from there. It can produce surprisingly good results for some PDFs. On large PDFs it may run for a while (as in 10-20 minutes) and then fail, gracefully though. IMO, conversion of PDF to HTML, or its derivatives, should only be done when all else fails. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 09-08-2020 at 07:30 PM. Reason: clarity