Thread: Why would a book PDF work ok as a file, but not open in Calibre?
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Old 07-13-2016, 08:35 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by willbeaufoy View Post
I have a book pdf that opens fine if you just open it as a file before adding it to Calibre, but once you add it to Calibre (2.62) it opens blank with a message 'this document has no pages'. Why might this be? I can't really add this as a bug as it only seems to affect this book.
calibre displays PDFs by first converting them to an ePub. I think this conversion is going wrong.

Double-check this by actually trying an explicit conversion and see what you get.
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