How-To Video Tutorial: Transforming eBooks From Adobe Digital Editions Into PDF Format

How-To Video Tutorial: Transforming eBooks From Adobe Digital Editions Into PDF Format

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How-To Video Tutorial: Transforming eBooks From Adobe Digital Editions Into PDF Format

Video Guide: 3 Methods to Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

Posted by Ada Wang on 4/17/2024 11:48:00 AM.

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When you’ve purchased an eBook (involving a monetary expenditure) that can only be accessed through Adobe Digital Editions, you might wonder if it’s feasible to convert Adobe Digital Editions to pdf–the world’s oldest but the most popular one.

The answer to this question is a resounding “Yes,” of course. However, before undertaking the conversion process, it’s essential to understand that Adobe Digital Editions employs a proprietary Adobe Adept DRM scheme (commonly referred to as Adobe DRM). Consequently, ebooks protected by Adobe DRM can exclusively be accessed using apps or eReaders that support Adobe DRM. Moreover, these files cannot be copied or transferred to other locations due to the DRM protection in place.

Don’t worry. Here I will introduce 3 methods to convert ADE to PDF.

Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF Mac/Win with Epubor Ultimate

How to convert Adobe eBooks on Mac or Windows computers with ease? Here you will meet a powerful all-in-one tool —Epubor Ultimate. It’s a powerful program for you to remove DRM and convert ADE eBooks to pdf or any other formats. As one of the best eBook Converter, it stands in contrast to Calibre in that it has much simpler interface and 7/24 customer support. Compared with the above two-mentioned two methods, this tool is user friendly and much easier. It allows you to remove adobe drm and convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF without installing the plugin or keeping the internet connection all the time. Please go ahead to find the detailed steps to convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF with Epubor Ultimate.

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Step 1 Download and install Epubor Ultimate.

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Step 2 Remove Adobe DRM.

Run the program, on the left panel you will find that it automatically detects all your Adobe eBooks(opened and downloaded via ADE). Drag the books to the right area of the program directly, then it will remove adobe DRM within seconds.

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Step 3 Convert to PDF.

Choose the pdf as the output format at the central bottom, then click “Convert to PDF” button. The files will be converted to PDF immediately.

Pro features: as above image shows, Epubor Ultimate also supports converting the adobe drm to kindle supported format (mobi or azw3).

Pros: Easy to use; 24 hours online customer service and technical support; No extra plugin to install.

Cons: Paid software. Free trial version only converts 20% of each book.

From the steps above, it is clearly show that the Epubor Ultimate is easy to operate. It comes with DRM removing and ebook format converting functions. Also, this best Adobe to PDF converter will get your Adobe books converted at a faster speed and higher quality. It does the job fast and efficiently, where most other software and online converters fail.

Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF Online

There are some online converters that can convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF if you want to convert the files online. For example, ebook2pdf , Zamzar .

Follow the two simple steps to convert ebooks to PDF with the online free tool.

Step 1. Click “UPLOAD FILES”(or drag files directly from local drive) and select the target one.

Step 2. Click “DOWNLOAD ALL” to save the converted PDF files.

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Pros: It’s very easy and convenient for you to operate when you are online. Those converters support many kinds of formats and they’re totally free.

Cons: We cannot use those programs when you are offline. That means you cannot convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF when you cannot connect to the Internet.
We will be disturbed by ads that pop up from time to time.
Almost all of the online eBook converters don’t support the DRM protected eBook titles.

Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF Calibre (Free)

Also there are ways to convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF free. Here I recommend Calibre. Converting Adobe Digital Editions to PDF Calibre, you need to download and install this tool.

Step 1 Click here to download Calibre (version 6.x) and add DeDRM Plugin v10.0.9 to Calibre (for removing adobe drm).

Step 2 Run Calibre and click the “Add books” button at the top left corner to import books.

Step 3 Choose one book (or multiple files) and then click on “Convert books” button.

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Then a new window will appear, and you can choose your output format as PDF at the top right corner of the new window. Click the “OK” button and it will convert your Adobe Digital Editions ebooks to PDF.

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It’s easy to use Calibre to convert Adobe Digital Editions ebooks to PDF. Now you can print the converted PDF out or transfer it to other devices.

Pros: Calibre is free. And its management function is really powerful.

Cons: You need to install DeDRM plugins if you want to convert DRM protected ADE books . What’s worse, you can’t get any help from Alf’s developers if you meet problems.

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Final words (epubor customer story from María Angélica Mora)

I bought a course to prepare for the GMAT, and since I don’t live in the United States but in Chile, it wasn’t possible for me to have the physical books sent to me (due to the shipping cost involved). The course I purchased included digital format books, and I planned to print them myself (I’m someone who needs to have things on paper to work and study better). However, it was a big problem and a great concern for me to realize that the books had to be read in Adobe Digital Editions and I couldn’t print them. There wasn’t much I could do because the course was already paid for. I started searching for options, and nothing worked until I found Epubor Ultimate . Thanks to this program, I was able to convert the files to PDF, print them, and start preparing for the test in the best possible way :)

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Ada Wang works for Epubor and writes articles for a collection of blogs such as ebookconverter.blogspot.com.

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32 Comments

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Yasir jabari

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

06/20/2015 01:13:21

Thank you, that is really helpfull

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Vasintha

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

03/9/2016 12:15:58

Thank you !! This helped me

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Frustrated

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

09/8/2016 11:58:49

This didn’t work at all

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Ma

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

10/10/2016 15:54:16

LOVE IT! Seriously, wonderful!!!!!

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León Tandazo

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

10/11/2016 02:33:33

MUY BUENO

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Coss

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

11/20/2016 11:04:32

SUPERB! Wasn’t really expecting it to work. But it sure did!

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julie

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

01/21/2017 02:36:07

Worked awesomely!!!!! Would definately recommend.

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joop

Re:julie

03/5/2019 01:14:20

never recommand it is fuck they only convert a small peace assfuckers

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Epubor

Re:joop

03/7/2019 09:50:08

Thank you for using Epubor trail version. The trial version allows you to decrypt and convert 20% content of each book.

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Jane

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

05/4/2017 14:21:36

Really awesome tool

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Jane

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

05/4/2017 14:21:39

Really awesome tool

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Kdog

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

01/9/2018 03:09:21

Do I need to have an Adobe ID to get this method to work?

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Epubor

Re:Kdog

01/10/2018 10:17:01

Yes. You should ensure this book can be read in ADE AT FIRST.

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Jason

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

01/9/2018 03:46:21

I had high hopes for this, but it doesn’t work for Digital Editions at all.

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Epubor

Re:Jason

01/10/2018 10:28:10

Please contact support@epubor.com about this issue. They will help you fix your problem. Please describe your problem clearly in your email.

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Elle

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

04/29/2018 15:11:52

None of the above worked. Epubor is a scam. They want your money!

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florin

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

01/11/2019 04:58:34

chapeau bas!

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Frank

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

02/9/2019 00:33:31

Using Calibre, you must FIRST open the .acsm file in Adobe Digital Editions, so that the DRM-protected file is now a .pdf file in the Documents\My Digital Editions folder. Then in Calibre you Add THAT .pdf file (NOT the .acsm file), which creates another DRM-free .pdf file in Calibre’s own Library (that is, in its own folders). So you do not need to convert it. But “just to be sure”, you can convert that .pdf to a another .pdf with a slightly different name.

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Sofie

Re:Frank

04/1/2022 17:29:48

Thank you so much!! Your comment helped me a lot!

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Author

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

02/16/2019 05:17:29

Thanks for allowing scabs to rip off authors and publishers

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John

Re:Author

03/6/2020 09:58:13

Having several times in the past paid for drm protected e-books only to have the lose access for varying reasons; website fails, sold out or format can’t be read on other device or software, etc. Removing drm and converting to other formats too is a basic and sensible precaution. I rather feel that paying out hundreds of dollars and then having those books become unusable is the real rip-off. I am also an author, but yes, there are good reasons to remove drm whenever possible, I avoid purchasing any protected books for this exact reason. Not to pirate, to protect my access to books I have legally obtained. Deal with it.

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faith

Re:Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

07/26/2019 12:28:42

Worked really well

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Epubor

Re:faith

07/27/2019 09:22:42

Thank you for your comments. Glad these methods are helpful.

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Jack

Re:3 Methods to Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

04/22/2020 23:43:38

You deceive people with the free trial. It is not a free trial

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Epubor

Re:Jack

04/23/2020 09:00:39

Thank you for your comments. The free trial allows you to convert 20% content of each book.This will help you find out if our software can handle your books or not. If you want to freeware, please try Calibre. We’ve already mentioned in the article.

Have a nice day.

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Kevin

Re:3 Methods to Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

04/23/2020 19:40:09

Nice one lol

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Epubor

Re:Kevin

04/24/2020 09:29:49

Glad to know you like it.

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Chiran Windsor

Re:3 Methods to Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

08/28/2021 19:32:14

First method works well. Great!

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seahawk

Re:3 Methods to Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

01/6/2022 23:34:11

Thank you so much! You are a lifesaver. I did option 2 - I had to use the v4.23 calibre and the v6.8.1 of deDRM but it then worked like a charm :D

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d

Re:3 Methods to Convert Adobe Digital Editions to PDF

04/25/2022 17:07:30

this is really helpful

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  • Title: How-To Video Tutorial: Transforming eBooks From Adobe Digital Editions Into PDF Format
  • Author: Larry
  • Created at : 2024-08-20 10:51:14
  • Updated at : 2024-08-21 10:51:14
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