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Old 10-14-2010, 09:29 PM   #1
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Hi There.....
Looking for assistance/tips regarding e-book conversion:
- running Calibre 0.7.23 on MacBook Pro; device > iPad + iBooks
- attempted to convert a number of pdf's to epub format ( preferences set accordingly > input=pdf, output=epub; device=iPad
- while some pdf books/articles were converted right, others :

> lost images
> a 250 pages book became over 1000 pages
> table of content displayed one page per item
> footer/header scrambled with text
> forcing table of contents generates lots of pages, one line per page
> maths formulas converted to text, one character per line

To cut it short :

- how to tell which pdf can or cannot be converted to epub?
- what preferences setting to use for input=pdf, output=epub for iBooks , iPad, MacBook Pro running OS 10.5.8?

Many thanks
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Old 10-14-2010, 09:40 PM   #2
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Hi Bocha and welcome to MobileRead. Someone should come along with an answer shortly
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Old 10-14-2010, 10:03 PM   #3
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Welcome to MobileRead, Bocha.

If you don't get an answer soon, you might try posting your question in the Calibre forum..........

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166
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Old 10-14-2010, 10:10 PM   #4
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welcome I hope you get it worked out
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Welcome to mobileread ....

You may have discovered one of the reasons why PDFs are poor source files for ebooks - the conversion processes can't figure out what to do with the images in PDFs. The Calibre site states ....
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The PDF conversion tries to extract the text and images from the PDF file and convert them to an HTML based ebook. Some PDF files have images in a format that cannot be extracted (vector images). All tables are also represented as vector diagrams, thus they cannot be extracted.
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Old 10-15-2010, 11:42 AM   #7
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Welcome to MobileRead, Bocha.

If you don't get an answer soon, you might try posting your question in the Calibre forum..........

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=166
The thread is now in the Calibre forum.
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Old 10-15-2010, 12:35 PM   #8
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There is no way to tell how well a pdf will convert, other than converting it

As for preferences, the only really important one is the line unwrapping factor under PDF Input
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Old 10-16-2010, 08:01 PM   #9
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Hi Bocha,

I have a similar situation trying to make my own book files convertible to as many ereader formats as possible; also working on a MacBook Pro. You might find some of the posts on the thread I started helpful. https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...07#post1164807

I'm still sorting out the information myself. As I find out more I'll redirect you to the above or reply again here. Please let me know what you figure out, too. Good luck!
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