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Originally Posted by rlauzon
I think I know what you are talking about. Too often I see a PDF-translated-LIT file. A file that can't be reflowed because the information simply isn't there in the original.
That's the problem with translation - some data is usually filtered out.
For example, a OpenDoc that's translated to a PDF. The PDF does not contain paragraph breaks anymore. PDF didn't need that information, so there was no provision made for it. So when translating a PDF back to an OpenDoc, someone has to provide that paragraph break information.
What I want is to eliminate the need for any translation process.
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Why someone would want to go from LIT to PDF is just beyond me. The problem is a lot of people are totally 100% clueless and it shows. How many times have you seen an ebook in text look like total crap? Take the ebook in LIT, convert it to HTML, do away with the ToC (because it's a seperate file and they are too lazy to deal with it), convert to PDF which will look ok, then use a PDF to text converter that loses all the formatting such as italics, emdashes, proper paragraph ends, and you can easily get one hell of a shitty mess all from a well formatted LIT file.