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DiapDealer · 10-14-2011, 01:22 PM

PDF is a destination only format. You convert things to PDF... not from PDF. It's primarily a dead-end, one-way street. You can't get there from here. It will never convert well to any other ebook format without a lot of hands-on manual tweaking. You may get lucky here and there on a few documents, but mostly, nothing but misery will come of it.

If you don't have the source documents that the PDF was created from, you better: A) read it on a device that already works well with PDF documents. Or B) get ready to get your hands dirty converting and still end up being unhappy with the results. It is what it is. There is no magic.

10-14-2011, 01:22 PM	#11
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,549 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	PDF is a destination only format. You convert things to PDF... not from PDF. It's primarily a dead-end, one-way street. You can't get there from here. It will never convert well to any other ebook format without a lot of hands-on manual tweaking. You may get lucky here and there on a few documents, but mostly, nothing but misery will come of it. If you don't have the source documents that the PDF was created from, you better: A) read it on a device that already works well with PDF documents. Or B) get ready to get your hands dirty converting and still end up being unhappy with the results. It is what it is. There is no magic. Last edited by DiapDealer; 10-14-2011 at 01:26 PM.