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Old 11-30-2019, 10:42 PM   #1
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Blank pages (every other page) PDF to EPUB
I just created my first EPUB file. It was from a pdf. The pdf was about 186 pages with black text (Times New Roman, about 11 point), with grey-scale photos on several pages. Each pdf page was 6"x9".

My converted file looks great in the calibre E-book viewer except a blank page appears between each "original" pdf page. If I re-convert the pdf, is there a setting I need to select first before converting so I do not get blank pages?

I read pdf's are notoriously bad for converting. When I made the original pdf, I removed extraneous pixels and made the text crisp even to the point of making certain character combinations (such as fi and fl) more distinguishable.

I'd attach the job details as suggested elsewhere, but since I closed Calibre and re-opened it, the job details for the conversion are not showing in the "spinner" at the bottom right. The epub file is almost 23,000 KB so I did not try to attach it to this post.

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did you read the PDF sticky at the top of this forum?

You fix ALL from PDF sourced problems by HAND EDITING the EPUB
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How did you create the PDF? I.E. what tool did you use, a word processor, a DTP program …?

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did you read the PDF sticky at the top of this forum?

You fix ALL from PDF sourced problems by HAND EDITING the EPUB
Yes I did. No mention of blank pages: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=118605


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How did you create the PDF? I.E. what tool did you use, a word processor, a DTP program …?

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I use a program called PDF-XChange Editor.

Now this is weird... I just used Calibre again and the book looks fine using Calibre E-book viewer.
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Yes I did. No mention of blank pages: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=118605
You expected the note to enumerate every possible from PDF failure?
The word Disaster is used when PDF conversion is involved, more often than not.
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Now this is weird... I just used Calibre again and the book looks fine using Calibre E-book viewer.
Did you update calibre recently, maybe one of the changes to the viewer had an effect, see What's New on the https://calibre-ebook.com/ site.

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