[Athen] Converting EPUB to PDF

[Robert Spangler]

Same here.  For most of them, navigating a PDF is new to them, as
surprising as that might be.  Not all young people are tech enthusiasts, as
is commonly believed, so I am trying to put the least amount of stress on
them as possible.


On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 9:44 AM Susan Kelmer <Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu>
wrote:


> Andrea, this is basically what we do with Bookshare files.  Most of my

> sighted students have no interest in learning to navigate a bookshare file,

> so we convert to word, add in page numbers and heading levels (because

> those do not exist or are poorly done in most bookshare files) and then

> convert word to PDF, or just give the student the word files.

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> Isn’t it amazing the hoops we jump through for your students?  This is

> also why I am so angry about publishers finding yet another few hoops we

> have to jump through to get what our students need.  Why are they making

> things more difficult?

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> *Susan Kelmer*

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Andrea L. Dietrich

> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 29, 2018 7:03 AM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

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> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] Converting EPUB to PDF

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> I use a free program called Calibre (also available in a “portable”

> version in case you don’t have the ability to install software on your

> computers yourself). It’s designed as a general ebook management program,

> but it has really good conversion capabilities. The only issues I’ve had

> with epub to PDF are that sometimes the conversion will divide pages in odd

> places, and that there are usually no original page numbers to correspond

> to the hard copy of the book.

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> Depending on your time constraints, you might want to convert the epub to

> .docx, add page breaks manually in Word, and then convert that file to PDF

> so that you can “recreate” the original publisher layout for the book, but

> obviously that’s more time-consuming.

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> Good luck!

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> -Andi :)

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> *From:* athen-list <athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu> *On

> Behalf Of *Robert Spangler

> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 29, 2018 8:54 AM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network <

> athen-list at u.washington.edu>

> *Subject:* [Athen] Converting EPUB to PDF

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> Hello, is it possible to convert from EPUB to PDF and, if so, how would I

> go about doing it?  We distribute PDFs only to our students unless

> otherwise requested, but a publisher on AccessText is stating that Epub is

> the only option available from them.

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Robert Spangler
Disability Services Technical Support Specialist
rspangler1 at udayton.edu
Office of Learning Resources (OLR) - RL 023
Ryan C. Harris Learning & Teaching Center (LTC)
University of Dayton  | 300 College Park  |  Dayton, Ohio 45469-1302
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