Odd conversion problem

speakingtohe · 05-09-2010, 11:27 AM

I have some files that were probably converted from pdf's without the line unwrapping. Every line has a carriage return.
I converted sveral of these files (lit, lrf) to pdf and then reconverted them with the line unwrapping set to 0.04 which seemed to do ok except that wherever there are two lower case l's there is one l and a space (following = fol owing, really = real y, well = wel , all = al )Brilliant is ok oddly enough
Double e's are ok and Lloyd is ok.
So I thought I will try exporting them (the pdf's created by calibre) as html or rtf from adobe and got characters like this (Oa[KQbMILbM[YQLMaQ[[KQbM_L
Then I converted to rtf in Calibre (6.91 beta) and still the missing l's

The ls were all correct in the original document and the pdf. They just got changed when converting the pdf
I can deal with this with search and replace in the rtf but am wondering what is happening and/or if there is a better way to accomplish what I want to do.
Thanks for any input.
Helen

DoctorOhh · 05-10-2010, 06:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by speakingtohe

except that wherever there are two lower case l's there is one l and a space (following = fol owing, really = real y, well = wel , all = al )Brilliant is ok oddly enough

This is a known problem in the pdftohtml program Calibre uses for conversion. I believe this will be addressed when the new PDF conversion engine is released, date of release TBD.

From calibre's bug tracker.

Quote:

Missing letters from converted PDF

status changed from new to closed
resolution set to wontfix

This is a bug in pdftohtml (the program calibre calls to convert PDf to HTML. Open a bug report at ?http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=45839
If/when they fix the bug, re-open this ticket and I will add the fix to calibre.

speakingtohe · 05-10-2010, 10:18 AM

Allrighty
I am sure I will survive

05-09-2010, 11:27 AM	#1
speakingtohe Wizard Posts: 4,812 Karma: 26912940 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: sony PRS-T1 and T3, Kobo Mini and Aura HD, Tablet	Odd conversion problem I have some files that were probably converted from pdf's without the line unwrapping. Every line has a carriage return. I converted sveral of these files (lit, lrf) to pdf and then reconverted them with the line unwrapping set to 0.04 which seemed to do ok except that wherever there are two lower case l's there is one l and a space (following = fol owing, really = real y, well = wel , all = al )Brilliant is ok oddly enough Double e's are ok and Lloyd is ok. So I thought I will try exporting them (the pdf's created by calibre) as html or rtf from adobe and got characters like this (Oa[KQbMILbM[YQLMaQ[[KQbM_L Then I converted to rtf in Calibre (6.91 beta) and still the missing l's The ls were all correct in the original document and the pdf. They just got changed when converting the pdf I can deal with this with search and replace in the rtf but am wondering what is happening and/or if there is a better way to accomplish what I want to do. Thanks for any input. Helen Last edited by speakingtohe; 05-09-2010 at 01:30 PM.

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speakingtohe Wizard Posts: 4,812 Karma: 26912940 Join Date: Apr 2010 Device: sony PRS-T1 and T3, Kobo Mini and Aura HD, Tablet	Allrighty I am sure I will survive

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