Hi everyone,
I bought a scientific ebook last week and recover an epub file. I need a pdf to work on it on my computer. This is a 1500 pages epub with lots of illustrations and lots of 2 columns text. I have been trying to convert this epub to pdf with Calibre for the last 7 days but can not get something clean.
I am on archlinux up to date and use the 5.14 Calibre version, without any additional plugin.
I tried several different convert configurations, checking and unchecking Filter style information. Every time, the output pdf has illustration places issues or the text is cut at the right, some characters are not well rendered, etc.
I found out that I need to check the
Flow mode in the Calibre viewer to get the display right, however, I can not touch the zoom as it make the 2 columns cross each others.
Noticed that the conversions needs at least 1h30 minutes to render a pdf. I tried to make a docx from the epub to see if I can then create a clean pdf from the docx. The process had spent 4 days before I stopped it. It was consuming 35 Go of RAM and was stuck at 67 %.
I have the impression that the epub ebook is very complexe making it very complexe to render to a clean pdf. However, when I look at it in the
Edit book way, every page is perfect, no issue at all. Then, I guess it can be possible to Calibre to make me a pdf with the exact same configuration as the epub is correct.
So, can someone tell me what configuration should I try to get a pdf with the desire render in this situation ?
Thanks for your time.