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From: Sak Wathanasin on 4 Jun 2010 07:52
On 4 June, 12:08, Woody <use...(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
> On 04/06/2010 11:52, Jochem Huhmann wrote:
>
> > Sak Wathanasin<s...(a)nan.co.uk>  writes:
>
> >> On 4 June, 07:11, j...(a)magrathea.plus.com (Jim) wrote:
>
> >>> iBooks doesn't do PDFs, only ePubs. However, there's a app called
> >>> GoodReader that does PDFs. Rather an odd miss on Apple's part. Seems
> >>> strange that there's no iPad version of Preview.
>
> >> Is there something that'll convert PDFs to ePubs? I tried Stanza but
> >> it nade a pig's ear on the one I tried it on.
>
> > Try Calibre:http://calibre-ebook.com/
>
> Can do a good job with a bit of tuning, although generally also makes a
> bit of a pigs ear of it by default.
> Depends on the PDF a lot.

Thanks for the suggestions people. I'll give them a go. In the
meantime, GoodReader Lite is free for the iPhone and the full version
is only £0.59 for the iPad. There are also a couple of free ones as
well. Anyway, the aim of the exercise is to avoid printing out those
1- or 2-page agenda to take into meetings, which I usually throw away
afterwards. There's a PDF annotator for the iPad (£6) which may be
worth having if the iPad works out for this purpose...
From: Woody on 4 Jun 2010 12:21
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote:

> On 2010-06-04, Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Best results I have had is to do PDF->Text with my own tools (or the
> > xpdf tools), open it in a text editor, find / replace all headers / page
> > numbers / other obvious formatting, then use either calibre to make the
> > ePub or an ePub book editor on the mac (whos name currently escapes me)
>
> If you remember the name please let us know.

It was sigil.

There was another one too, but I didn't use that much.
Having said all that, the last two books I did, I converted with
calibre, changed the extension to zip, unzipped it, edited the html
file, zipped it back up, changed the extension again and used that file.

That worked. All an ePub is is a zip archive with a load of xhtml files,
all contained graphics, stylesheets etc, a META-INF that says where to
find the opf file, and an opf file which is an xml file that lists all
the files.



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Woody

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