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You need to scroll using the scrollbar because scrolling with the TouchPad doesn't work. Well, it kind of works, but it takes about 20 seconds to register a scroll and ends up scrolling a few pages.

Convert the PDF of "Dive Into Python 3" by Mark Pilgrim into ePub and look at the resulting mess. First page:

"AreyoualreadyaPythonprogrammer?Didyoureadtheoriginal“DiveIntoPython”?Didyoubuyit on paper?

What happened to the spaces? You will find numbers throughout pages, often in the middle of a page, which are the page numbers from the PDF.

I made a searchable PDF of my W-2 using Abby Fine Reader and tried to convert that to ePub. The end result is a blank page. I created tabular text of my computers: CPU, and GPU, and memory. I saved as PDF and converted it to ePub; the table is gone with one entry per line.

Dog shit has more value than this garbage.



I can’t say for the other features - I’ve never used Calibre - but if spaces were lost during the pdf conversion that means that the text layer did not have the spaces. Not much you can do in this case, really.




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