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Originally Posted by Pierre Lawrence
I uploaded the file for a novella I wrote, in odt converted to docx, to Draft2Digital for distribution to retailers for sale. As part of their service D2D provides downloadable files of your book in epub, mobi and pdf format. I tested the downloaded epub with Adobe Digital Editions, and it read fine, including the cover. Thinking mobi was still Amazon's proprietary format, I tested the mobi file with the Kindle Previewer, and was surprised to see the mobi converted to epub. It also read fine, including the cover. I tested the pdf file with Adobe Acrobat, and alas the cover was missing (apparently it wasn't included in the downloaded file.) As discussed in another thread I added the cover using Adobe's editor, which compared to any text editor/word processor I have ever used was unbelievably hard to use - even for a task as simple as adding an image to the file. Thinking I might have a need to edit the text some day, I tried that but gave up, it was so difficult.
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Hi, Pierre:
I guess my question would be, what...to what use is the PDF being put? It's likely not a print layout, right? It's basically an ePDF? Is that a free on-your-site giveaway, or?
It's not hard to add a page, or a cover image, etc. to a PDF. I'm not sure what editor you used that was hard, but in Acrobat (DC, Pro), you can simply select "organize pages" and add a page.
What it will NOT do for you, though, is renumber the pages, if you are inserting a page somewhere that affects that. When you add a cover, of course, it doesn't, as the cover is not counted as part of the interior. But if you were to add (say) a page after page 15, in your interior, that could muck things up.
Hope that helps.
Hitch