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Old 11-16-2011, 01:05 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by sebtombs View Post
I know that PDF conversion is hard, but this one is a bit weird. Every instance of "th" in a document that I have just converted is rendered on the Kindle as what looks like a Greek character, and "ft" has become a small square.

Is this a known PDF->MOBI issue in Calibre, or more likely to be a Kindle AZW problem?
Those are probably Ligatures.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature

Coupled with what you read in the Sticky a(above) about PDF, it should not be a surprise that there will be problems like this.
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