Exporting Epubs -> PDF with page #'s and TOC intact?

[HighMans]

Hello!

I've a EPUB file that I know has a intact TOC and page numbers that match the physical copy (If I open the file up in Vitalsource's bookshelf, the page numbers are listed and the TOC works).

How do I go converting this epub to a PDF that other people can browse?

The issue I'm having is I'd like to share this book as a PDF with other people who may not have a physical version but they can still reference the correct page number as what's listed in the physical book.

[DNSB]

Is the book out of copyright or otherwise public domain. If not, you are going to have to look elsewhere for help.

Are the page numbers from a page-map.xml or embedded in the epub navigation document?

[HighMans]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Is the book out of copyright or otherwise public domain. If not, you are going to have to look elsewhere for help.

Are the page numbers from a page-map.xml or embedded in the epub navigation document?

Yes it is out of copyright, and I don't see a page-map.xml but there is a TOC file. From what I can surmise, all the pages are separated by an element like this:

<span role="doc-pagebreak" epub:type="pagebreak" aria-label="**" id="pagebreak_**"/>

where ** is the page number.

[HighMans]

I'm able to split the epub in to a file that has a separate XHTML file per page, my question now is how do I convert each XHTML file to fit on one "page" in a pdf?

[DNSB]

You might want to try converting the epub to docx in calibre, then editing the .docx in Word or LO Writer and printing to PDF from there. Unless you are trying to convert a fixed layout ePub3 which is about the only epub format that does 1 page per file. In that case you are pretty much out of luck with any automated conversion process.

Edit: if you see a line like <meta property="rendition:layout">pre-paginated</meta> in the .opf, you are dealing with a fixed layout epub.

May I ask the title and author of the book?

[Quoth]

Or simply Export As PDF in later LO Writer and Word versions, or even Word 2002 with PDF plugin, after Calibre docx or RTF conversion.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by HighMans

I've a EPUB file that I know has a intact TOC and page numbers that match the physical copy (If I open the file up in Vitalsource's bookshelf, the page numbers are listed and the TOC works).

How do I go converting this epub to a PDF that other people can browse

If the epub is an epub3 book w/o DRM, simply tell the readers that you want to share the book with to install Azardi (freeware). If they have iOS devices, they can simply sync the book with Apple Books using iTunes.

Both apps will display page numbers.

[HighMans]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Or simply Export As PDF in later LO Writer and Word versions, or even Word 2002 with PDF plugin, after Calibre docx or RTF conversion.

Even trying to convert to a DOCX, I can't seem to fit each page on to a page in word, it always overflows.

[DNSB]

The xhtml files in a reflowable epub are often a chapter not a page.

[HighMans]

Originally Posted by DNSB

The xhtml files in a reflowable epub are often a chapter not a page.

I can split the xhtml files in to pages by using calibre to convert from an epub to an epub and setting the "Chapter mark" to none and "Insert page breaks before" to "//h:span[@role="doc-pagebreak"]"

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by HighMans

Even trying to convert to a DOCX, I can't seem to fit each page on to a page in word, it always overflows.

Check the paragraph styles, page styles, header and footer. Maybe header/footer spacing is too large, or font too large, or paragraph spacing vs indent 1st line wrong, or default page size is incorrect, or kerning, or default line-spacing wrong.

Note also different fonts at same "size" are different sizes on the page and even at same line-height may be different width per word.