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Originally Posted by markz68
I have converted the same books via Stanza Desktop & Calibre. I find that Calibre does a much better job on the ones I was working with.
I figured that the speed issue was because Calibre was actually working harder to maintain the quality.
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I write eBooks and as a test I loaded a short 18-page PDF that looks perfect into Calibre and converted to EPUB. Even before loading into iPhone, using the viewer I could see the conversion was terribly flawed. It did not remove Headers or Footers, for example.
So, I created a new PDF with everything "inline" and with colored text because a correctly assumed gray-behind text would get lost.. Again the conversion was terrible. Colored text was black. Captions under images were tossed into text and centered images moved right. Pix and their captions were divorced. Many paragraphs end with a single word on the next line. Some text was blown up to 30pts.
Moved to file Stanza on iPhone, the conversion was the same -- terrible.
Bottom-line -- Calibre is unuseable for the production of eBooks. I can only imagine what it would do with one of my 300-page books. Clearly, the original PDF reads better on the iPhone and will be far better on the iPad.