Hi, I'm the lead developer of the pdftoepub.
Please upgrade to the new version (just run the installer and override the old version). The new version will run the adobe epubcheck automatically after conversion. So I assume the html syntax error should never happen.
The attached "HR GI 2009 - Camera Ready-your-rule.epub" is the epub converted by new version.
The real power of pdftoepub is it gives you a powerful script programming language to manipulate PDF texts. As a demostration, I add 3 lines in the rule.lua, and produced "HR GI 2009 - Camera Ready-your-rule.epub" to handle the Reference section better.
pdftoepub is a enterprise expert system which let the customer control everything in PDF (except vectors) with lua programming languae. Until now, I can not find this feature in mobicreator, stanza, calibre...
If anyone finds some pdf can NOT be handled properly by pdftoepub, please contact our customer support at
http://www.dnaml.com/contactus.asp?product=PDF+to+ePub.
Our company are very serious about customer support, so I usually read most emails from customers.
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Originally Posted by Grauheim
Well I went ahead and bought this. My recommendation: avoid at all costs. Perhaps it does fine on documents that are simple text, but complex pdf is a disaster.
I tried it on a fairly typical computer science paper in two-column ACM format. I've attached the pdf and the resulting ePub so you can look for yourselves.
The first couple of pages are fine, although it messed up the table of author names. No big deal.
It correctly detected that there are two columns and got the flow right.
The first column-spanning figure on page 2 was done correctly. So far so good.
The graphs on pages 3 and 4 are a complete mess. Rather than treating them as images, it extracted the axis labels and threw away the graph itself.
The formulae on pages 5 and onwards are thrown away.
Then about half way through the first column of page 6, the document just stops. The entire second half of the paper is unreadable. When I poke through the actual files (specifically ch0-p1.xhtml), it is apparent that there is malformed XHTML that is causing my reader to croak.
Like I said, for simple documents involving only straight text and perhaps some images, I imagine the product might work fine. For real scientific documents, however, the generated ePub is simply of no use whatsoever.
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