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Old 05-16-2008, 05:16 PM   #393
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Originally Posted by DixieGal View Post
It seems that my conversion from pdf to imp for Mistborn did a strange thing: Every word that has the letters "fl" or "fi" shows up as "?". Not slowing me down, because I'm already on page 75, but it seems to be a ?uke or arti?cial artifact from when I was just learning to ?esh out the formatting.

However, it is suf?ciently easy to read, so I'm not going to try to re-?nish the format conversion again.

Have a ?ne weekend! Don't take any wooden squirrels!
Sounds like a kerning issue. In some fonts fl and fi are a single character. So, your convertor doesn't know what character to use there so it puts in a question mark. (I think this is called kerning.) Can you convert to the same font that the PDF is using?

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