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Originally Posted by termn8er
Thanks Wallcraft. I got Calibre and converted to ePub and that worked great on the first book I tried. Never knew there was so much to know about eReading before. Thanks for the help!
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It is not so much about eReading as it is about PDF specifically. It is unlike any other reading program and the file format is also unlike any other (except maybe page maker). It is like cutting up a lot of pieces of words, sometimes letters, and images and scattering them across your desk. Now you decide that you want a page of stuff so you gather up the text, letters, and other things and them paste them on a page. It looks perfect but what if that was only a facade and to really understand the perfect page you had to know exactly where on the desk the original letters, works and images were and also had to know exactly what order they were placed on the page in order to read the page.
This is a little like what reflow has to do. Some pages are really easy the page is built uniformly by neatly laid out pieces that were already in order but other document may start with stuff all in random places and the source may then be edited by splicing in other information and them moving stuff on the page around. This kinds of PDF looks fine but is practically impossible to reassemble into text that can be flowed. All PDF files are not created equal.
Some PDF files have a feature called tagging that can help by providing some intelligence about the various pieces. This greatly improves the ability to reflow but not all PDF files have this and it is not clear whether ADE could support it anyway. On your PC you can take the free adobe reader and change the document into reflow mode. This is the best reflow I have ever seen but still doesn't always do a good job.
There are some conversion programs that can convert PDF but they have the same problem as the reflow algorithms have in reassembling the information on the page. Some can do a pretty good job.
Dale