[PLUG-TALK] OS Portable PDF Reader

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 14 May 2015, Paul Mullen wrote:

> Sort of. Calibre is a collection of several eBook-related applications,
> with a graphical front end that would make a Win95-era GUI designer blush
> (so many widgets to click on...). It's a lot more than just a conversion
> utility.

Paul,

   There's also a command line interface. And, Calibre requires Imagemagick
so it must emulate (or make use of) the convert tool.

> I'm still skeptical that a clean conversion from PDF to a "real" e-Book
> format (e.g., ePub) is possible, given that there are so many ways a PDF
> can define its content. There's a lot more than words inside most of them,
> and converting their (potentially) carefully-designed layouts to a format
> that is supposed to be as fluid as possible can't be easy. But I'd happy
> to be proven wrong.

   Time will tell. It might well be different for technical books than for
general ones.

Rich