I've got some very fine PDF files coming in to Calibre but when I try and convert them to ePub it ends up spacing between paragraphs, which is what I *don't* want. I've tried checkmarking the 'Remove Spacing between paragraphs' (even though the original PDF has no spacing) but that doesn't help. When I look at the PDFs in Calibre they look find (no spacing) so I'm not sure what's going on here -- doing other file conversions (like LIT to ePub) don't have this problem. Read the sticky (about PDF) at the top of this forum.

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Just from reading *some* of those stickies I'm guessing the idea is that a PDF doesn't contain true paragraph breaks. If so, I understand that much, but what I don't understand is why Calibre converts the end of a paragraph into a break PLUS a line break. IOW, it would work perfectly if it just ignored the line break (or at least didn't pad the paragraph break with a space). It's intelligent enough to know when to break the paragraph (it's doing that consistently throughout my PDF file) but not enough to know not to add a line break as well?

I already tried removing spacing (see my first message) but that doesn't do anything (most likely because there aren't any paragraph breaks of the kind). And it's getting even more complicated -- I went to using ODT files (on the theory that PDFs were somehow just evil:>) and now I can get rid of the paragraph breaks (by editing in Open Office the ODT file) but I can't now get a paragraph indent -- the one that OO puts in there is ignored by any conversion, and there is no way to add one (because, again, the only way you can get an indent is to remove spacing, and I don't have any spacing). Sigh -- this is very complicated and seemingly needlessly so. And how do I edit the paragraph css -- I don't see this as an option anywhere in Calibre (but I'm pretty stupid)? Sorry, mkelley, I failed to read your OP properly and my response wasn't helpful. My only excuse is that it's 1am.

There's nothing automated, but if you use the Tweak epub option (just highlight the epub and press T) your epub will be exploded into its constituent parts. You can view the.css file in your preferred text editor. You should probably open up some of the html content files in the text editor as well so you can see how the paragraphs have been constructed. Of course, this does pre-suppose that you know a little about html and css. PDFs can be very difficult to convert satifactorily. There is no magic method, but if you've read the I guess you already know that.

Hey, if it's 1am there you ought to go to bed (I know I would). It appears I have two choices -- I can remove all the paragraph breaks from the ODT file and this does convert just fine to an ePub document without paragraph breaks between paragraphs.

Except there is no indent at the start of each paragraph. I can fix that by adding one paragraph break in the ODT file but then I get the indent AND an additional paragraph break in the resultant ePub file. So I'm darned if I do and darned if I don't. There doesn't appear to be any way to eat your cake and have it too.

I'm guessing there is one additional thing I don't know, but I'm going to look at some of the files which ARE correct and see if I can figure out what it is (my guess would be some sort of indent character that needs to be added somewhere). Ah -- don't worry about it. I think I got is sussed out. While this would only be of interest to idiots like me struggling with this, I'll still put it down in case some other clueless individual finds this thread.

I was using OpenOffice's add in Alternative Searching in order to get rid of extraneous paragraph feeds. The problem is that's it's pretty non-standard in how it refers to things (there are three different ways to refer to a paragraph, for example, among them end of paragraph and empty paragraph, both listed BEFORE just plain ole paragraph). The bottom line is that as long as I made sure each paragraph had a paragraph tag (in OO Alternative searching it's a /p and represented on screen by the typographers big 'P' with double ll on it) and then checkmarked 'remove paragraph' with a proper indent in Calibre's conversion I end up with what I want. Doing other file conversions (like LIT to ePub) don't have this problem.