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bookfanmd · 06-01-2010, 10:12 AM

Mobipocket Creator Publisher edition does a decent job of converting PDF to mobi format. I then use Calibre to convert to RTF and edit that file using MS Office. There are generally a lot of line breaks instead of paragraph marks and line breaks at the end of every line for certain chapters that I fix in Office and then convert the cleaned up RTF file back to mobi in Calibre. If you are not picky about formatting you may be happy with just the first run through from Mobipocket Creator. Both Mobipocket Creator and Calibre are free software that you can find using google and you could use about any word processing program to edit an RTF file. When you install Mobipocket Creator there are 2 options, choose Publisher edtion or there will not be an option for Adobe PDF.

I've tried several different programs to convert PDF and this has worked best for me overall.

I think the kindle can read pdf files now but have never tried this. You could find more info about that in the kindle forum.

06-01-2010, 10:12 AM	#2
bookfanmd Addict Posts: 246 Karma: 4476 Join Date: May 2009 Location: US - Maryland Device: Sony 300/505/T1 Nook STWG Kobo Glo Kobo Aura HD KDX iPad1 K3 KT PW2	Mobipocket Creator Publisher edition does a decent job of converting PDF to mobi format. I then use Calibre to convert to RTF and edit that file using MS Office. There are generally a lot of line breaks instead of paragraph marks and line breaks at the end of every line for certain chapters that I fix in Office and then convert the cleaned up RTF file back to mobi in Calibre. If you are not picky about formatting you may be happy with just the first run through from Mobipocket Creator. Both Mobipocket Creator and Calibre are free software that you can find using google and you could use about any word processing program to edit an RTF file. When you install Mobipocket Creator there are 2 options, choose Publisher edtion or there will not be an option for Adobe PDF. I've tried several different programs to convert PDF and this has worked best for me overall. I think the kindle can read pdf files now but have never tried this. You could find more info about that in the kindle forum.