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• • April 2, 2015 at 7:58 am #74318
    Tim Hughes

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    Anyone have any experience with any of the myriad of conversion software solutions to pdf to epub conversion, in particular for fixed layout?

  • April 2, 2015 at 9:53 am #74329
    Ken Jones

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    Hi Tim

    My company’s software ‘CircularFLO’ will now convert PDFs to Fixed Layout EPUB3 and KF8. More info on that here https://www.circularflo.com/instructions/#pdf_tools

    You will need the latest update from here https://circularflo.com/update/ to access these new tools.

    Thanks
    Ken Jones

  • April 23, 2015 at 2:35 am #74892
    Tim Hughes

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    Would you recommend your pdf tools over using a pdf to Indesign conversion?

    I have been outputting fxl from Indesign directly so far.

    Thanks

    Tim Hughes

  • April 23, 2015 at 3:27 am #74894
    Ken Jones

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    Hi Tim

    The tools we have give an easy and quick way to get PDFs converted to searchable Fixed Layout EPUB3 and Amazon KF8.

    Attempting to convert your PDFs into InDesign documents and then exporting out to EPUB will be a more lengthy approach, it will be harder to do, you may well not get an exact conversion and you also won’t get the Amazon KF8 output. So, yes, I would recommend our method!

    Thanks
    Ken

  • April 23, 2015 at 5:37 am #74898
    Tim Hughes

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    Hi Ken

    Thanks for your reply, unfortunately the client wants to change the typefaces, for licensing purposes, so we may have to convert from pdf anyway.
    Your method does appeal though.

  • April 23, 2015 at 5:41 am #74899
    Ken Jones

    Member

    Hi Tim

    Sounds like a lengthy process! Actually there is no need to change typefaces for our PDF solution as we can use embedded text for search and display a high quality graphic to the reader without embedding a font.

  • May 22, 2015 at 7:26 am #75556
    Carrie Derner

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    I have a question that piggybacks the current discussion on converting pdf to fixed-layout. A few years ago client had us design a course primer in iBooks Author. We then followed up those with an interactive pdf for those without iBooks access. Now, they’re buying their employees surface tablets and want fixed-layout ePUBs. Is there a backward process we could use from iBooks to InDesign or interactive PDF to ePUB3?

  • May 22, 2015 at 7:36 am #75557
    Ken Jones

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    Hi Carrie

    Either the PDFs exported from iBooks Author or the interactive PDFs you mention can be placed in to InDesign and a fixed layout EPUB then generated.

    CircularFLO has tools to help you do this and to make sure that the live text in the PDFs remains searchable in the final fixed layout EPUB3. https://www.circularflo.com/instructions/#pdf_tools

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