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Originally Posted by cybmole
OK - using acrobat,
so, all ----al
pulled ----pul ed
still -----stil
stairwell ----stairwel
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PDF has some tricky oddball ways of doing things. Essentially, it is a bunch of text characters with rules for where to put those characters on the page. It's based on a printer language where that makes some sense, but it's not easy for a conversion engine as there's no way to even be sure you've found the end of the sentence. You have to guess from where the text is put on the page and the text itself. It's possible that the double ll's are saved as a single l with a rule for putting in two of them. Calibre's conversion engine (not written by Kovid) does not know all rules. Acrobat does know them all.