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Originally Posted by MacEvansCB
dwanthny ... I HAVE read the PDF stickie. Several times.
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Excellent, did you have any success with the suggested Mobipocket Creator to convert your pdf? Or using Adobe Acrobat Pro (expensive but maybe someone with access could experiment for you).
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Originally Posted by MacEvansCB
I can copy/paste an offending paragraph from the PDF to TextEdit and all the double LL's copy/paste just fine AND show as two distinct characters... and, when moving the cursor thru the words in the PDF, the LL's show as two separate characters. If ligatures are single characters, are they displayed as a single character or as two separate characters in a PDF???? ... and do ligatures copy/paste as two separate characters?????
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I'll admit a certain amount of ignorance, but it is my impression that due to
how PDF writes the info to the display, that what you can copy and paste and what you see are often different. Akin to placing text over images so search and define features work correctly. Again, someone else with complete and full knowledge will have to explain further.
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Originally Posted by MacEvansCB
I don't have a choice here most of the time ... I HAVE to work from PDF originals.
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I'm curious, why don't you have a choice? If stuck with having to use PDFs then maybe procuring Adobe Acrobat Pro might be the way to go. Or purchase a reader or tablet that can accommodate PDFs natively without converting them.
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Originally Posted by MacEvansCB
It would be REALLY REALLY WONDERFUL if the new PDF engine was given more priority.
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I'm sure there are those that agree with you. Personally I approve of Kovid prioritizing the new database design above the new PDF converting engine. Ligatures aside, Adobe software often has problems converting PDFs to clean html and if they have problems I hate to think of all of the other underlying problems awaiting Kovid in attempting to clean up the new PDF conversion engine.
Good Luck.