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Old 07-18-2020, 09:37 PM   #1
xfrank
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epub to PDF: different output in Calibre 3 vs 4

Hi! I highly appreciate this wonderful software, many thanks to the developers!
I have a simple question. I use Calibre regularly to convert epub files to pdf files. I noticed that the pdf output in versions 3 and 4 is quite different. PDF version output is 1.7 in Cal4 and is 1.4 in Cal3. However, the key difference is the font management: in Cal3 the pdf file has the fonts clearly indicated with their names, and the text is easily selected and copied elsewhere. In Cal4 the fonts are not indicated, and when the text is copied&pasted, the words are all chopped, separated with spaces.
When the pdf file is opened with a pdf manager (such as MasterPDF manager), in the files produced with Cal3 the text is easily modified. Not in the Cal4 pdf files: here is impossible to modify the text because each letter is treated as a separate glyph, not as words and lines of text.
This change is not good for me, I had to revert Cal4.20 to Cal3.48. But I'm curious what changed between the two versions of the program, about the conversion to pdf.
Sorry for my poor English, my native language is Spanish.
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