PDF to EPUB Conversion - best practice?

Verdi-Fan · 09-29-2024, 04:06 PM

Good evening!
First of all, a big compliment to the creator of Caliber Software. A wonderful program that I am discovering more and more for myself.
A question about conversion:
I get the best results when I convert a PDF file to an *.epub file .
Vice versa its a catastrophe and that's not the point here either

PDF to Epub is a very very good result. Does anyone have experience with how to optimize the results? So a smaller font size so as not to produce so many pages, etc. I always get an incredible number of pages. Are there any instructions or tips for this? Thank you very much!
Kind regards
VF

aborel · Today, 12:41 AM

Surprising post: your observation is opposite to the usual experience and the official FAQ https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/con...-pdf-documents . Converting to PDF usually works better than PDF to anything.

Now if your PDFs produce something reasonable, by all means, go for it :-) However, you might have more control on the output if you convert to a fully editable format (docx, odt or RTF), fix all issues using your word processor of choice, and then convert to epub.

09-29-2024, 04:06 PM	#1
Verdi-Fan Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2024 Device: Onyx Boox Note Air 3	PDF to EPUB Conversion - best practice? Good evening! First of all, a big compliment to the creator of Caliber Software. A wonderful program that I am discovering more and more for myself. A question about conversion: I get the best results when I convert a PDF file to an *.epub file . Vice versa its a catastrophe and that's not the point here either PDF to Epub is a very very good result. Does anyone have experience with how to optimize the results? So a smaller font size so as not to produce so many pages, etc. I always get an incredible number of pages. Are there any instructions or tips for this? Thank you very much! Kind regards VF

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Today, 12:41 AM	#2
aborel Enthusiast Posts: 29 Karma: 98 Join Date: Dec 2013 Device: Kobo Aura	Surprising post: your observation is opposite to the usual experience and the official FAQ https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/con...-pdf-documents . Converting to PDF usually works better than PDF to anything. Now if your PDFs produce something reasonable, by all means, go for it :-) However, you might have more control on the output if you convert to a fully editable format (docx, odt or RTF), fix all issues using your word processor of choice, and then convert to epub.

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