Big problem

[netseeker]

Originally Posted by BlackVoid

But it seems fanboys just do not care.

You should really learn not to offend people who have a dissenting opinion.

On the Mac one can also use the "pdftohtml" commandline program to convert PDF to HTML (which is what Calibre does internally btw.) and then use the HTML for further adjustments. Calibre does convert HTML very well to any other supported format.

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by BlackVoid

There are an awful lot of complaints about Calibre's conversion of PDF documents, it is not just me. But it seems fanboys just do not care.

You are mistaken that people that like calibre don't care about it's quality.

But, you do have to understand that converting from PDF is probably not something most people are doing. Also, Kovid is one person and can only do so much. Ultimately it is he that decides what is important to him and what he works on. Of course, he works on those things that he finds important.

Also, this is a freely provided program that no one asked you to pay for. I think you should leave your feelings of entitlement at the door.

Finally, being that it is an open source program you are more than welcome to improve it any way you see fit, and give back. Kovid has accepted may patches for people that were able to add features which those contributors thought important but were low on Kovid's priority list.

If other tools work better for you, then by all means use them. I don't think any calibre "fanboys" will think any less of you. Well, I know I won't. Although I don't consider myself a "fanboy" given the negative connotations that term implies.

BOb

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by frabjous

There's a lot of PDF tools around here, but most are Windows-only. I guess there is a way to get PDFread to work with mac:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...233#post176233
Might be worth a try.

If you have the full or standard version of Acrobat (not Acrobat reader), extracting the text into .rtf or .html and then converting will yield better results.

Even Adobe Acrobat will still generate errors when converting from PDF even if it is only text based PDF. There is no known program that can convert from PDF to anything else without errors for a novel sized PDF.

[BlackVoid]

Originally Posted by TadW

This is your problem. You haven't looked back but you think you know what's best. Why don't you do something better than Calibre if you think it's so bad?

Because BD works just fine for me. Along with the Sony Connect software.

[BlackVoid]

I do not have any feeling of entitlement. I was just a bit frustrated, that people can only think about Calibre, while there is already another FREE program available for PDF conversion. If anyone felt offended, I am sorry.

[Jill75]

Originally Posted by Elfwreck

One of the simplest "conversions" for PDFs is to get a gmail account, and attach the PDF, and then open it as HTML.

This will get you an HTML file with the page breaks, and headers & footers as text, but it usually keeps paragraph breaks (depending on how the PDF was made) and can be converted to something else that doesn't have the weird line-break issues that PDFs do in the reader.

Ok you get the HTML version. Can this now be read by your reader or needs to be converted again? Wont this distort anything? Its much nicer if you see it in your reader as a page or book format.