Re: Convert Pdf To Kindle Mobi
Donnell Simon
I have an entire book laid out in Indesign that I now need to convert to a MOBI file for Kindle readers. I'm finding this is an impossible task that I used to be able to do with my older versions of Indesign. Is there a plugin that I can use for CC that will do this for me? I'm also having a lot of difficulties getting a good EPUB file. All my fonts are squeezed together and my images in one chapter are showing up at the end of the chapter instead of in the text as they should.
I'm a little upset with Adobe for not having a way to contact them with questions. They were pretty good about chatting with me when I was trying to decide to subscribe to the Cloud version... yet I'm not getting much help at all with this new problem that I've spent two days trying to figure out. Does anyone have any suggestions?
This is not really so much Adobe's fault as it is Amazon's. You can try the Kindle Previewer app to convert to MOBI but the other issues you're talking about are impossible to diagnose without real details.
Thanks for the Reply. I'm using the most current version of InDesign CC on Windows 7. I downloaded Adobe Digital Edition to view my EPUB. I'm exporting to EPUB through Indesign Export to EPUB in the Book Menu. None of my fonts are showing correctly even though I checked Embed all fonts, and my images are showing up at the end of the chapter instead of where they belong with the text. It's all a mess.
I'm using InDesign CC (13.1 x64), running on Windows 7 Pro with Service Pack 1. Adobe Digital Editions Version 4.5.8.182857. Fonts are all open type, I can't figure out how to anchor the images and I believe I'm using the styles properly.
Changed my Paragraph Styles to have spaced before and after certain paragraphs so my quotes stand out like they do in the print book... and it still isn't working. Very unimpressed with Adobe right now. I'm not a newbie to working with book layout, but since I upgraded to CC it's been somewhat of a nightmare.
Hello Bob, I have a related question. I have been able to convert epub files to mobi in the past using Kindle Previewer, but now it gives me an error. This is a 300+ page novel with a fixed-layout epub. I am using Mac OS 10.15.1. The document was created in InDesign 15.
I tried downloading EBookConverter from the Apple store and it did the conversion, but when I open it in K. Previewer it has lost all its formatting. I have also tried converting it from a PDF file. Both work fine in Apple Books, but not on Kindle.
I have several class notes (more like books summarizing the material) that my college professors have provided in PDF form. As reading on a computer screen isn't exactly easy on the eyes (and gobbles unnecessary power compared to my Kindle) I'm looking for a way to convert these well. It would also be nice to be able to read/study in places where having a laptop would be impractical (e.g. weekend trips to places with no electricity provided, train travel).
I have already tried multiple file converters, including zamzar and Calibre, and the quality of both is no improvement on reading on a computer screen. I either receive gibberish (particularly when it comes to mathematical formulas) or else strange line breaks that make it difficult to follow the flow of the text, or both.This doesn't help the fact that I have to concentrate more anyways as the texts are not in my native language (I'm studying abroad in Germany).Reading pdfs on my Kindle is also not a viable option, as the constant moving back and forth over the page breaks my concentration as well.
I remember reading somewhere that converting to HTML, cleaning the code, and then converting to epub/mobi was suggested, but I can't find the article again and I wasn't sure what to do after converting the pdf to html (which seemed to work decently, and the HTML version looks good enough in my browser, besides small, rare garbled parts where certain mathematical symbols or special characters were, which I could live with and aren't of importance for non-math courses anyways).I would also be open to other roundabout ways of conversion (over an Open Office/Word text document, for instance) as long as the quality is good and easily readable.
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The second option is more work and more error prone. I have used that (in combination with the python sympy module and generating LaTeX), but of course any typo leads to incorrect formulae, something that is more difficult to achieve when just cutting out the formula as images.
One other, maybe less obvious, road is to ask the professor for the source material from which the PDF was generated. You might have an easier way starting from there. And your professor might be willing to supply you with the material with the lure of getting an ebook compatible version of the text in exchange. Even if the original material are individual scans, you are better of starting with those images for OCR, than with PDF files (which is, apart from its multipage capabilities, fundamentally unsuitable for scanned material)
You can download it for free. It's still in beta, has a few bugs, wrt the TOC, and the documentation and support for it are pretty terrible but it does a few things very well, one of which is zoom-able panels.
Here's what I recommend, save your PDF into discrete JPEGS, you can do this through the file save menu and then load all those individual JPEGS into the comic creator, it has a guided set up process when you open the app and begin a new book, very simple, it will load all your JPEGS in chronological order. You can then run a detect all panels command and it basically will detect where items in the page are grouped together.
Once you have the panels where you want just export and compile to .mobi, it has a feature for this in the app of course. Keep in mind this will be a fixed format ebook still but with the zoom feature it should be much easier to read and can be easily exported to .mobi format and loaded on your kindle.
PRC is a generic format, calibre supports PRC files with TextRead and MOBIBook headers.PDB is also a generic format. calibre supports eReader, Plucker (input only), PML and zTxt PDB files.DJVU support is only for converting DJVU files that contain embedded text. These are typically generated by OCR software.MOBI books can be of two types Mobi6 and KF8. calibre fully supports both. MOBI files often have .azw or .azw3 file extensions.DOCX files from Microsoft Word 2007 and newer are supported.
The first thing to realize is that most e-books have two tables of contents. One is the traditional Table of Contents, like the ToC you find in paper books. This Table of Contents is part of the main document flow and can be styled however you like. This ToC is called the content ToC.
Then there is the metadata ToC. A metadata ToC is a ToC that is not part of the book text and is typically accessed by some special button on a reader. For example, in the calibre E-book viewer, you use the Show Table of Contents button to see this ToC. This ToC cannot be styled by the book creator. How it is represented is up to the viewer program.
In the MOBI format, the situation is a little confused. This is because the MOBI format, alone amongst mainstream e-book formats, does not have decent support for a metadata ToC. A MOBI book simulates the presence of a metadata ToC by putting an extra content ToC at the end of the book. When you click Go to Table of Contents on your Kindle, it is to this extra content ToC that the Kindle takes you.
If you have a hand edited ToC in the input document, you can use the ToC detection options in calibre to automatically generate the metadata ToC from it. See the conversion section of the User Manual for more details on how to use these options.
Finally, I encourage you to ditch the content ToC and only have a metadata ToC in your e-books. Metadata ToCs will give the people reading your e-books a much superior navigation experience (except on the Kindle, where they are essentially the same as a content ToC).
The newer AZW3 format has proper support for a metadata ToC. However, theKindle firmware tends to malfunction if you disable the generation of theend-of-file inline ToC. So it is recommended that you leave the generatedToC alone. If you create an AZW3 file with a metadata ToC and noend-of-file generated ToC, some features on the Kindle will not work, suchas the Page Flip feature.
In order to convert a collection of HTML files in a specific order, you have tocreate a table of contents file. That is, another HTML file that contains linksto all the other files in the desired order. Such a file looks like:
Then, just add this HTML file to the GUI and use the Convert button to createyour e-book. You can use the option in the Table of Contents section in theconversion dialog to control how the Table of Contents is generated.
You can get help on any individual feature of the converters by mousing overit in the GUI or running ebook-convert dummy.html .epub -h at a terminal.A good place to start is to look at the following demo file that demonstratessome of the advanced features html-demo.zip.
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