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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
No, but the final, ready-for-print version was probably a PDF; any earlier digital editions very likely had changes added to them. Whatever the publisher uses to create the PDF may not be available to or usable by the author.
Authors have their original Word docs, but not the version that came back from the editing & proofing & formatting processes.
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That would make sense, but I still don't think it's wise to use those pdf files for conversions into other formats. If it were me, I would make alterations to the original word files to make them match the final pdf files to the best of my ability. At that point, I would then have a source file in the original format that matches, or at least closely matches, the ready-for-print version.
Unless I'm missing something here, and that's quite possible, trying to force a pdf file into another format is the most difficult route to take.