Thanks to Publuu you can convert pdf to innovative flipbooks, that are available to view on most modern browsers. It retains the classic look and feel of a paper book while also including interactive aspects like animated hotspots with internal/external links, music, movie and photo files. It is an interactive e-book with pages that can be flipped and turned, just like in a physical book. Online flipbook format can be great help to do just that. Sometimes you might want to show the PDF to someone who doesn’t have PDF Reader on his device. You will also learn what ebook creator to choose if you want to make the most of your ebooks content and present it the best possible way. Note to calibre developers: Why did you not use standard image manipulation libraries? Why choose a heavy GUI-oriented framework (like Qt) for simple image operations? Quite a great package (calibre) with such a poor decision, in my opinion.In this article, we’ll show you what is the best way to convert your pdf file into beautiful ebook.

If you can live with unmodified images from the original book that you are converting and don't need to compress/resize those images, then you're lucky, since you can avoid using Qt/X11. In short, the conversion tool only uses Qt for image manipulation operations. usr/lib/calibre/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plugins/mobi_output.py Basically, I removed Qt imports and fixed the remaining errors in the scripts by making those functions empty (or throw an exception) in these 2 files (in my case): /usr/lib/calibre/calibre/utils/img.py The last part was the most painful, since it involved modifying some of the python util scripts, which use Qt (which then requires some X11 libs) for image manipulation and we want to avoid that on a server/headless machine. I also had to specify a command line option -mobi-keep-original-images, since I wanted to convert epub to mobi format using: ebook-convert ~/test.epub ~/test.mobi -mobi-keep-original-images Installing some missing python modules (which you figure out by running the convert command ebook-convert inputfile outputfile), in my case: python3-msgpack The steps involved extracting these directories from the calibre package (deb, rpm, whatever): /usr/bin/ebook-convert I've managed to cut out ebook-convert from Calibre (which, for who knows what reasons, requires Qt for image manipulation) and got a command-line only interface for it, to be able to use the tool on a headless/server machine.

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