Thread: Is there a pdf->epub option that keeps the design better
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Old 11-11-2023, 01:07 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by NovelFan View Post
I noticed that there are the ePub versions and there are the PDF versions of books.

And if I convert the PDF version into the ePub version using calibre, then formatting is mostly gone except for a few bold and italic parts, also fonts are ignored, it's always the generic font. Also images are tiny and not optimized or out of place.

Compare that to an originally designed epub, how much better it looks if I have the pure ePub version.

But I have some documents as PDF.

Is there a more intelligent converter that retains design much more?
You pick a program and convert the PDF> ePub. Then you take the PDF and ePub and A/B convert everything. All spaces, all punctuation, all text. Then when you have that sorted, you use either Sigil or calibre's editor to make sure the code and formatting looks good. It's a lot of work. Regex to fix PDF > ePub does not work to fix everything and could botch things. This is a manual job.
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