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Old 03-22-2009, 06:06 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
There's really nothing you can do about it. PDF is not a "book" format - the file does not contain paragraphs, lines, or even words, but just instructions of the form "draw a letter 'A' at coordinates (x,y) on the page". It is virtually impossible to get a good "conversion" of a PDF to any other format; they will generally require extensive editing after conversion.
This is just not true, just like your brain, a good piece of software (which Calibre is not) can identify lines, line breaks and paragraphs. It is quite possible to do a good conversion.
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