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PDF to Mobi Help

Started by Blueberry Tide , Oct 15 2017 12:39 AM

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#1 Blueberry Tide

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Posted 15 October 2017 - 12:39 AM

I've been trying FOREVER (like two hours) to transfer a PDF to a MOBI using Calibre, but each time I get serious formatting issues when I try to open the file with my Kindle app. When I view it through Calibre it looks just fine.

What am I doing wrong?

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#2 mwsinclair

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Posted 16 October 2017 - 11:43 AM

Do you still have the doc version? That's how I typically do it; I've never tried to go from PDF to mobi.

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#3 Blueberry Tide

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Posted 17 October 2017 - 04:31 PM

That worked! All the advice on the internet lied to me. I kept finding "PDF to Mobi" instructions and none of them worked. I can't believe I didn't think of using the docx version sooner.

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#4 mwsinclair

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Posted 18 October 2017 - 12:49 PM

happy to help :-)

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