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Old 03-24-2009, 11:19 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by BlackVoid View Post
I really do not understand the ignorance on these boards towards BookDesigner. Calibre - which is quite bad at conversion - is popular and recommended. People even defend it: it is not possiple to convert PDFs, hence Calibre cannot do it either.

But this is just plain bullshit. There is a program out there - BOOKDESIGNER - which is perfectly capable of converting most PDF documents to LRF with minimal fuss. True, it is no longer supported and only runs on Windows, but it WORKS.

USE BOOKDESIGNER TO CONVERT PDF TO LRF. And do not listen to naysayers.
Considering the fact that I have created something over 1000 books with BookDesigner, BlackVoid (as you can see from the "Book Uploads" forum here), your accusation is a little misdirected .

Yes, BookDesigner can - sometimes - produce reasonable results with PDFs, but that does not alter the fact that PDF is a poor choice of format to convert from, unless one has no alternative. Pretty much any other format is preferable. Generally one will need to do considerable "cleaning up" of a PDF conversion, whereas many other formats will convert "losslessly".
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