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Originally Posted by loco
i have tried converting PDFs (the only format in which most of the punjabi books are available) but the result is total annihilation of text and fonts.
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If the pdfs are not image based (i.e. if you can select text in them) try copying some text to MS Word or an editor. If the text is correctly encoded, maybe your Calibre settings are off.
If the text is garbled, the pdf was most likely encoded using custom fonts and non-Unicode encoding standards. In this case you'll have to find out what Punjabi text encoding schemes where used before the introduction of Unicode and try to find a converter that will convert the text to Unicode.
Also note that you can't embed fonts for Indic languages and that Indic languages are only supported in azw3 files. I.e. if you convert text, html or epub files with Calibre, you'll need to select azw3 instead of mobi as the output format.
If your pdfs are image based, give
K2pdfopt a try. It's a language-agnostic tool that'll reformat .pdf files for Kindles.