06-24-2012, 02:09 PM | #1 |
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I have a PDF (as shown in the attachment PDF.JPG) After converting in calibre, the formatting has changed by itself. There's a break in every line! Plz refer to attached calibre.jpg Using calibre 0.8.57 on win xp. I've tried most settings, but to no avail. Can anyone advise me on how to solve this ? Tx!!! Last edited by somkk; 06-24-2012 at 02:12 PM. |
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There is no way to do the conversion so it just works. And Mobipocket/KF8 are poor formats to convert to as you cannot then edit the resulting eBook. You do need to do an A/B conversion to make sure you don't have broken lines all over the place and other assorted errors. This is not an easy thing to do to do it right. The optimal solution is to just not bother. Last edited by JSWolf; 06-24-2012 at 02:17 PM. |
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@somkk,
When you convert from PDF to whatever, you can usually reduce the number of broken paragraphs (as in your 2nd image) by adjusting the value found in Convert - PDF Input - Line Un-wrapping Factor. I think the default is 0.5, so try 0.3, 0.4, 0.6, 0.7 etc until you hit the best result for this particular PDF. It still won't create a perfect conversion but it may give you less manual work to be done afterwards. |
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07-07-2012, 01:42 AM | #7 |
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Dear Mr. Wolf,
Just got around to doing it, and the results are way better than converting to mobi. I'm just reading the epub directly on the Kindle! Tx a lot! |
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