My recommendation and I think 99.9% of the people at Mobile Read would recommend this too, is to first convert your PDF to an html file and then edit the html code. PDFs never convert well and you could spend hours and days trying to get one file to look close to what the author originally intended.
I gave up on using Calibre to convert PDFs two years ago. Now if I have no other choice I open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Professional and save as an html or RTF file. Once you have your paragraphs set in the html it's much easier to get the file to look the way you want.
If you can find the PDF in another format first that would be even better because I'm not going to lie that conversion is going probably not going to be easy to edit. There is a reason I wrote that super long post not too long ago about why I hate PDF and do not like that so many fan fiction authors are sharing fics in that format thinking it's an ebook format.
Blockquote and everything else is generally easier to create in the html file, though I haven't actually used blockquote myself but I know you can use css and create a paragraph tag with an even bigger indent compared to regular paragraphs.
The only person I know that's an expert with PDFs is elfwreck. Though she may also say find the original source file and start from scratch and save yourself the headache/time. But if there is a way to convert that PDF so it looks okay she'd be the one to know how to do it.
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Date: 2010-10-30 02:57 am (UTC)I gave up on using Calibre to convert PDFs two years ago. Now if I have no other choice I open the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Professional and save as an html or RTF file. Once you have your paragraphs set in the html it's much easier to get the file to look the way you want.
If you can find the PDF in another format first that would be even better because I'm not going to lie that conversion is going probably not going to be easy to edit. There is a reason I wrote that super long post not too long ago about why I hate PDF and do not like that so many fan fiction authors are sharing fics in that format thinking it's an ebook format.
Blockquote and everything else is generally easier to create in the html file, though I haven't actually used blockquote myself but I know you can use css and create a paragraph tag with an even bigger indent compared to regular paragraphs.
The only person I know that's an expert with PDFs is
Sorry I couldn't be of more help.