PDF italics yeilds line breaks

badgoodDeb · 01-11-2012, 09:03 PM

I have a book only in PDF format, and not available to buy a better version. I'm using Calibre 0.8.34 to convert it to mobi for a kindle. Is there any setting or fix I can apply to prevent italicized words in the pdf from generating spurious line breaks and incorrect word breaks too? I tried outputting the DEBUG info, and the problem begins in the input section and has worsened by the parse section. See pics for examples of extra line breaks being inserted, and also for some italicized sections grabbing part of the neighboring word too.

voidwards · 01-11-2012, 11:19 PM

I have the same issue, it has been driving me nuts for over a week. I tried the Amazon converter, MobiPocket creator, and everything I could find in Calibre and nothing will solve it. I would ideally love to have some regex code that would allow me to control the spacing before and after every italicized word. No luck so far.

voidwards · 01-12-2012, 08:28 AM

Well, nevermind, I solved my problem. In my case, all italicized word were missing a space after the word, so it would run into the neighboring word and effectively make one word only every time, e.g., "it all makessense after all".

So what I ended up doing is I imported the PDF in MobiPocket Creator to get the html, and used their html editor function there (which opened my notepad with the book in it) and I simply went in Edit -> Replace, and replaced all the occurences of </i> with the same but with an added space after it. It ended up being a very simple solution.

badgoodDeb · 01-12-2012, 05:51 PM

I was going to do that, but only found HTMLZ output in Calibre. Which didn't show up as text, in my editor. Where do I get MobiPocket Creator?

01-11-2012, 09:03 PM	#1
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,501 Karma: 64095689 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	PDF italics yeilds line breaks I have a book only in PDF format, and not available to buy a better version. I'm using Calibre 0.8.34 to convert it to mobi for a kindle. Is there any setting or fix I can apply to prevent italicized words in the pdf from generating spurious line breaks and incorrect word breaks too? I tried outputting the DEBUG info, and the problem begins in the input section and has worsened by the parse section. See pics for examples of extra line breaks being inserted, and also for some italicized sections grabbing part of the neighboring word too. Attached Thumbnails

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01-11-2012, 11:19 PM	#2
voidwards Member Posts: 10 Karma: 60 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Kindle 4	I have the same issue, it has been driving me nuts for over a week. I tried the Amazon converter, MobiPocket creator, and everything I could find in Calibre and nothing will solve it. I would ideally love to have some regex code that would allow me to control the spacing before and after every italicized word. No luck so far.

01-12-2012, 08:28 AM	#3
voidwards Member Posts: 10 Karma: 60 Join Date: Jan 2012 Device: Kindle 4	Well, nevermind, I solved my problem. In my case, all italicized word were missing a space after the word, so it would run into the neighboring word and effectively make one word only every time, e.g., "it all makessense after all". So what I ended up doing is I imported the PDF in MobiPocket Creator to get the html, and used their html editor function there (which opened my notepad with the book in it) and I simply went in Edit -> Replace, and replaced all the occurences of </i> with the same but with an added space after it. It ended up being a very simple solution.

01-12-2012, 05:51 PM	#4
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,501 Karma: 64095689 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	I was going to do that, but only found HTMLZ output in Calibre. Which didn't show up as text, in my editor. Where do I get MobiPocket Creator?

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