[Athen] Converting EPUB to PDF

[David Andrews]

No one is going to do all this conversion and 
hand-holding for them when they get out of 
academia. It would seem prudent to me to teach 
them how to deal with the materials that are available.

I know ePub is a change for people, but 15 or 20 
years ago, so were PDF's and people kicked and 
screamed.  ePub's offer a richer, and inherently 
more accessible experience over PDF's.  There is 
still some growing that needs to be done by 
tools, but they have the potential to be substantially better!

Dave


At 08:46 AM 8/29/2018, you wrote:

>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.

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>On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 9:44 AM Susan Kelmer 

><<mailto:Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu>Susan.Kelmer at colorado.edu> wrote:

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>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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>Disability Services

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>From: athen-list 

><<mailto:athen-list-bounces at mailman12.u.washington.edu>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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>On Behalf Of Robert Spangler

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

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>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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