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Old 06-01-2010, 11:38 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by bookfanmd View Post
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.
Uh, that sounds like a rather convoluted approach. Why not use Calibre to convert from PDF to your preferred target format?

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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.
You are manuall fixing linebreaks in Office? That sounds painful.
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