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[neuroticsquirrl.livejournal.com]

Hi guys. I'm having a heck of a problem with this pdf file of all of a certain author's work (she deleted her stuff off lj so all I have is a pdf). I want to make a table of contents for it and convert it to an epub for easier navigation on my Nook.

How should I go about this? I tried adding a table of contents to the pdf and converting to epub using Calibre, but the epub's TOC doesn't work.

ETA: Alternatively, it would be cool if I could chop the pdf up. These are really long fics! Thanks for any advice.

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[cienna.livejournal.com]

No idea, but I have a feeling that I have the same pdf and I would also love to know how to do this! It's a pain having to guess what pages certain fics start on.

[neuroticsquirrl.livejournal.com]

Complete Works of Maya? :)

[cienna.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's the one! XD

[neuroticsquirrl.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you got this, but she posted a sort of TOC on her lj before she took everything down. I added it to the beginning of the pdf, but that doesn't do me much good when I change it to an epub. :(

Draco Malfoy, the Amazing Bouncing... Rat? Page 2-179
Chains and Chained Page 191-203
Underwater Light Page 204-769
Loved Those of Great Ambition Page 770-820
Extended Courtship Page 821-843
Flame and Shadow Page 844-881
Hatred Page 882-892
Contempt Page 893-907
Your Every Wish Page 908-946
Dancing Queen Page 947-966
The Professional's Guide to Badgering People Page 967-988
Crouching Lion, Hidden Badger Page 989-1006
How The Badger Has Fallen Page 1006-1021
Dark Side of the Light Page 1022-1091
A Distinctly Different Manner of Finding Prince Charming Page 1092-1117
Draco Malfoy, Ruler of the Universe Page 1118-1142
Quality of Mercy Page 1143-1856
Sirius Black, Super Genius Page 1857-1898
If You've a Ready Mind Page 1899-2127
The Way We Get By Page 2128-2230
Drop Dead Gorgeous Page 2231-2539
Coda to and Epilogue: Twenty Years Later, or The Kids Are All Right Page
2540-2605

[cienna.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's really useful! Thanks!!

[neuroticsquirrl.livejournal.com]

Actually, I just went through all this effort to make a TOC for the pdf - I'd like someone else to enjoy it. http://www.mediafire.com/?82azkut5antp919

[neuroticsquirrl.livejournal.com]

Here's the nicely formatted epub if you're interested: http://www.mediafire.com/?dfdfflkzkmsafrt

[cienna.livejournal.com]

Yay!! Thank you so much! I just finished Demon's Covenant last night and am having an urge to reread some of her Harry Potter stuff. This will be very helpful!

[hollys_tree]

I just stumbled over this and THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This is exactly what I wanted since I got that pdf all that time ago!

You're awesome! <3

[http://users.livejournal.com/scarface_/]

Hi! Years late, but I was wondering if you still had it and would be willing to share? I have maya's works..but only as an pdf and it looks horrible on my ereader.

[mremre.livejournal.com]

I wonder, if you convert the PDF to ePub, then ePub to RTF/TXT, would that allow you to reedit the whole thing?

[mremre.livejournal.com]

Other ideas:
- Open the PDF, "Print" to PDF (CutePDF is freeware) with specific page numbers. This will create a new PDF file on your computer with only the pages you want.
- find a PDF editor to cut up/convert the pages. I think Adobe Acrobat Pro *koff,koff* can export as an editable file.

[rilestar.livejournal.com]

I know with Acrobat Pro you can use the 'create' button to split a pdf off into new files made up of specified pages of the original. You click 'create', then choose 'merge files into single pdf'. That brings up a box where you choose which file(s) to draw from, and can choose pages within that file.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

You can create an epub in Calibre, then use Sigil (http://code.google.com/p/sigil/) to create a TOC. Just highlight each story title and choose 'heading 1' from the heading menu in Sigil. As long as you save the fic in the same place Calibre saved it, you won't have to reconvert or re-upload or anything.

Sigil is fairly buggy because it's still in development, but I've found it very handy for quickly fixing formatting that went wonky during conversion to epub and for adding a TOC when Calibre didn't.

[neuroticsquirrl.livejournal.com]

It worked! It looks gorgeous! Thanks so much!

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

Yay! And you're welcome!

[neuroticsquirrl.livejournal.com]

And yay Yomiko! :)

[amalthia]

You wouldn't by any chance be willing to share??? my email is amalthia at gmail.com.

I haven't had the chance or time to really convert Maya's complete collection.

[neuroticsquirrl.livejournal.com]

I sure would. How about I just mediafire it?
http://www.mediafire.com/?dfdfflkzkmsafrt

[amalthia]

Thanks!

[http://users.livejournal.com/scarface_/]

Hi! Years late, but I was wondering if you still had it and would be willing to share? I have maya's works..but only as an pdf and it looks horrible on my ereader.

[amalthia]

Email me at amalthia at gmail.com and I'll send you the epub I fixed up. (it's not perfect but 99.9% better than the PDF)

[february-sky.livejournal.com]

I'm a year late but would it be alright if I got the epub off you too?

[amalthia]

Sure, send me your email address at amalthia at gmail.com and I'll send you the epub.

[itsmec.livejournal.com]

I just sent you an email, and I didn't want to be so much of a creeper so I'm posting this now, after the fact hoping you don't mind. Can I have the epub too, please?

[amalthia]

I don't mind at all! :)

[jillybean-6939.livejournal.com]

Hello!
I'm sorry that's after such a long time, but I hope you don't mind me e-mailing you as well to beg for the epub version!
Have a nice day!!

[crysty-twilight.livejournal.com]

I use a combination of calibre (to convert) and Sigil (to format) epubs.

Like the_other_sandy said, it's buggy, but it works (and it's free!). It also has an option to split up the file into chapters since you said you want to chop it up. Be careful when doing that - the undo button doesn't work on chapter splits so you have to know exactly where you want to put them. It's a real hassle to try and splice back together what you didn't want separated.

[amalthia]

Yeah, it woudln't have been so bad if Maya had added bookmarks to her PDF before she sailed off into the sunset...

[neuroticsquirrl.livejournal.com]

Well, I made a bookmarked pdf and a nice epub of it if you want to check the links above. She must have slapped it together very quickly.

[amalthia]

Yeah, it looks like she just tossed it all together. It wouldn't have been so bad if she'd shared it as a Word Doc because then people could fix her shoddy formatting. But many authors are attached PDF because they think people can't work around it...Obviously that is not the case! :) It's just a pain in the ass.

[elf]

I chopped it into separate PDFs. Haven't gotten around to converting it to other formats because the original was made in something that converts badly to Word (inconsistent paragraph breaks, problems with italics), but I do have all the stories as standalone PDFs. (With metadata, so they should convert nicely.)

[paul david (from livejournal.com)]

Thank you for perhaps the most level headed thing I have read today. I was searching for a service to merge PDF files and found a great service. Merging files is super easy with AltoMerge. Try it on your own here www.altomerge.com (http://www.altomerge.com/) and you'll make sure how it's simple.