Re: Converting pdfs to mobi

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On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Max Pyziur <pyz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 19:09 -0500, Max Pyziur wrote:
>>>
>>> However, I just tested converting the same document (pdf->mobi) using
>>> both calibre and Amazon's Kindle service. The results are far better
>>> from Amazon. Calibre's ebook-convert jumbles the output.
>>>
>> Depending on what you mean by "jumbles", I can't say that's a surprise
>> for some PDFs. Are you saying it happens every time? Maybe a report to
>> Cailbre's author is in order.
>
>
> In general, calibre's conversion of pdfs is less robust than Amazon's. By
> "jumbles," I mean that certain documents have things such as footnotes, or
> endnotes; some have anchors. In Amazon's case, more often,these seem to be
> handled correctly. With Calibre, the footnotes can be interspersed with the
> regular text; in that way, the regular text is "jumbled" with the footnotes
> presenting problems of continuity.
>
> Perhaps a report to calibre's authors is in order.

I would imagine that footnotes, endnotes etc. are hard cases to handle
since their positioning depends on page breaks. PDF documents are
preformatted to a page size, while Mobi docs are meant to adjust
according to the display device. Certainly it would be useful to
report this to Calibre's author. I also wouldn't expect great results
with equations and figures other than simple inserted images.

I take it that conversion of normal text (such as you would find in a
novel) is more acceptable?

poc
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