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Old 11-08-2017, 03:46 AM   #1
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Exclamation Help adding a custom news source (PDF) needed.

Hello,

I want to add a custom source for a monthly journal.
The journal and can be obtained from:
http://www.darc.de/cqdlarchiv/
Since this page needs authentification I attached a screenshot.
How can I create a rule that would download the new issues and automatically and convert it to my kindle?
Thank you in advance!

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Old 11-08-2017, 09:19 PM   #2
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The news download system is designed to work with HTML not PDF. You could theoretically create a recipe that downloads the pdf, converts it to HTML using ebook-convert, but I doubt very much the results would be satisfactory.
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Old 11-09-2017, 04:22 AM   #3
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The news download system is designed to work with HTML not PDF. You could theoretically create a recipe that downloads the pdf, converts it to HTML using ebook-convert, but I doubt very much the results would be satisfactory.
Yes that seems right.
I manually converted one of those issues from pdf to .mobi and the result is a mess. I guess there is no other, more suitable format to convert to?
In either case, I entirely hope they will switch from the flash-based reader to some html-based stuff at some point, which will hopefully allow to extract the content more easily. Or is there any possibility to extract the issue from the flash-reader app?
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