Never converted an Ebook before, need help

splowrey · Yesterday, 10:44 PM

Good evening community.

Looks like I found the right place. I'm trying to convert my children's book PDF into epub. It has done that. But every epub viewer I use to view how it looks, just makes every thing look like this, is this not normal? And the words are always front of white panels.

slm · Yesterday, 11:17 PM

PDFs don't convert very well--they aren't designed to be ebooks and don't really contain the right information.

One thing that sometimes works for me is to open the PDF in Microsoft Word, which will offer to convert to a Word document. If the conversion completes, look at whether it looks OK and save it as a docx format.

Then let Calibre convert the docx to epub--it does a very good job in that regard.

Yesterday, 10:44 PM	#1
splowrey Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2024 Device: I don't have one yet	Never converted an Ebook before, need help Good evening community. Looks like I found the right place. I'm trying to convert my children's book PDF into epub. It has done that. But every epub viewer I use to view how it looks, just makes every thing look like this, is this not normal? And the words are always front of white panels.

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Yesterday, 11:17 PM	#2
slm Fool Posts: 404 Karma: 3557934 Join Date: Feb 2003 Device: Kindle: Voyage,PW1,KOA, Kobo: Clara Colour, Nook GLP, Pocketbook verse	PDFs don't convert very well--they aren't designed to be ebooks and don't really contain the right information. One thing that sometimes works for me is to open the PDF in Microsoft Word, which will offer to convert to a Word document. If the conversion completes, look at whether it looks OK and save it as a docx format. Then let Calibre convert the docx to epub--it does a very good job in that regard.

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