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Originally Posted by DVC
Of course, PDF is not an eBook format! That's why Calibre is CLAIMED to CONVERT PDF to EPUB! Did you even read my question?
PDF is CLAIMED to be supported as a Calibre INPUT format because it is THE universal standard for computer documents just as EPUB is almost THE universal standard for eBooks!
Not to be able to convert PDF to EPUB -- as you claim -- would mean that 90% of the world's documents could NOT be converted to EPUB by Calibre. Is this what you are saying?
Moreover, I tried inputting a .docx file and Calibre couldn't import it. Given that WORD is the second most -- after PDF -- common document format in the world, Calibre is even more useless.
Bottom-line, if you can't import PDFs and .docs -- then what formats are you converting?
PS: Right after your post there is this post:
"So I exported my MacJournal as PDF, loaded it into Calibre, converted to ePub, then uploaded to Stanza on my iphone."
So why are you saying PDF isn't an input format? The problem isn't PDF. The problem is that Calibre doesn't have the correct code to interpret PDFs AND/OR Calibre can't correctly generate EPUB. Don't blame the PDF when the I have several iPhone readers that accept my huge books and render them perfectly!
And, note I'm not the only one who reports the conversion isn't correct. From the same post, " The layout isn't perfect ..."
Either it's got to be perfect, or Calibre needs to enable you to make EPUB corrections in its Viewer.
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Amazing rant
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You use Sigil to edit epubs.