How on planet Earth can I change this pdf to epub? I tried everything I could think of in Calibre but the problem is that the pdf has 2 columns of text per page, plus footnotes on each page. When it converts to epub it just prints each line of each text column as a line of text, which makes it totally lose it’s meaning. Footnotes are also just added as regular text, as part of a supremely incoherent story with aggressive punctuation.

Has anybody been able to solve this before?

  • starkillerfish [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    8 months ago

    pdf is a printing format. epub is a type of html essentially. you essentially want to turn a book into a webpage. it is practically impossible unless you do it manually or the pdf is basically blank and single column without footnotes.

    TLDR: pdf and epub are very different formats. you cannot easily convert pdf to epub (but epub to pdf is much easier).

    • fort_burp@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      7·
      8 months ago

      it is practically impossible unless you do it manually or the pdf is basically blank and single column without footnotes.

      Yea, seems like it :/ thanks