On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Max Pyziur <pyz(a)brama.com> 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