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alansplace · 12-20-2011, 03:14 PM

I sometimes use PDFCreator which works as a printer driver but instead outputs a PDF file. The problem it appears to have solved is the one where a PDF conversion using Calibre loses the second of a double letter sequence and replaces it with a space. Like 'all' being converted to 'al '. This worked on my test of a PDF file that setting Calibre to 'keep ligatures' doesn't solve the problem, but using PDFCreator to create a second PDF file does.

Creating a new PDF first (using PDFCreator) then using Calibre to convert the new PDF to an ePUB seems to have solved the double letter problem.

12-20-2011, 03:14 PM	#1
alansplace Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,897 Karma: 464403178 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: 33.9388° N, 117.2716° W Device: Kindles K-2, K-KB, PW 1 & 2, Voyage, Fire 2, 5 & HD 8, Surface 3, iPad	Possibly a solution to one of the pdf conversion problems I sometimes use PDFCreator which works as a printer driver but instead outputs a PDF file. The problem it appears to have solved is the one where a PDF conversion using Calibre loses the second of a double letter sequence and replaces it with a space. Like 'all' being converted to 'al '. This worked on my test of a PDF file that setting Calibre to 'keep ligatures' doesn't solve the problem, but using PDFCreator to create a second PDF file does. Creating a new PDF first (using PDFCreator) then using Calibre to convert the new PDF to an ePUB seems to have solved the double letter problem.