06-25-2011, 06:30 AM | #1 |
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Italics not exporting from pdf
I am having problems exporting italicisation from PDFs.
I have been working on a series of books where the source supplied is pdf, so I am exporting from Acrobat X as HTML, the HTML is a mess but a few minutes work in Dreamweaver makes it usable with Sigil. So far so good. But now the problem. After doing 40 books the 41st refuses to export the italics, the text is there, its just not italicised (no <i> tags or italic styles in the css). The italics are visible in the pdf and there is an italic font embedded in the pdf. I have tried loads of online and stand alone conversion tools but none of them solves my problem. Any ideas anyone? |
06-26-2011, 03:46 AM | #2 |
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Try with OCR, treating the PDF as scanned images.
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06-27-2011, 05:08 AM | #3 |
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have you tried with rtf export?
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06-30-2011, 03:39 PM | #4 |
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Yep, tried rtf, xml, word.doc, word.docx, html, html - filtered and OCR. nothing works except PDFtoEPUB, which makes the worst HTML I've ever seen.
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07-01-2011, 04:26 AM | #5 |
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I know nothing of Acrobat x so forgive me if my post seems silly.
When I have a similar problem with Adobe Reader I copy a section of the text which includes the problem text. Paste into Word. From the Format menu I select Styles and Formatting to open the panel. I next put the insertion point inside the problem word(s and see what the panel tells me in the 'Formatting of selected text' box. Hover the mouse over box then click on the right down arrow. Select 'Reveal Formatting'. This may give you some clue as to what's happening. |
07-02-2011, 07:04 AM | #6 |
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Sometimes in PDFs I have noticed text being listed twice, once in plain text and another time as part of a caption box or something of that sort. Sometimes a conversion program will get the one, but not the other.
Is the text always associated with something else like an illustration? If it is, finding and fixing might be the least stressful way to approach it. |
07-04-2011, 11:37 AM | #7 |
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Dillinquent - I'm having a similar problem when I cut and past books in the word.doc format into Indesign to begin to create an epub. It leaves out all the italics and I have to style them all manually. Has anyone else run into this going from MS Word into Indesing? Thanks - Michael
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