I recently purchased a technical book from APRESS, which comes as a password protected PDF file. I want to load it into Stanza Desktop, then sync to my iPod Touch. I've read every relevant message I can find on this forum, but I just can't get it to work correctly. The sync is no problem. But the formatting is wrong in varying ways. I've tried using Calibre to convert the file to an EPUB. But Calibre complains, saying it won't handle DRM-protected files. I've tried various apps to remove the password protection, but I get errors (& I don't have more time to test the rest of the dozens of apps out there).

I tried the Copy in Adobe Reader, then use New File From Clipboard in Stanza Desktop. The text wrapping in Stanza Desktop & iPhone is bad ... Stanza doesn't seem to adjust line breaks for column width. Also, no graphics appear.

I tried opening the PDF in Stanza Desktop then syncing to iPhone. Now the text has no problems with line breaks. But it merges multiple subtitles, page numbers, paragraphs, etc. into a single very long paragraph, which makes it almost unreadable. Spot checking, there seem to be about 4-6 of these paragraphs created for each chapter. I spotted only a single graphic ... part of the graphic in the center of the cover, shown by itself (instead of with the book title, etc.).

Desktop is running under Windows XP SP2. iPod Touch is the most recent model, 8gb, running version 2.2. Stanza Desktop is version 1.0.0-beta15 build #1:389.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks.

Dave