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Old 05-14-2010, 01:48 PM   #3
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Dave_S is correct.

Your PDF uses ansi encoding with a non-unicode font.

The short-term solution is to embed the font into the epub. But long-term you should look at converting to unicode.

I've attached an epub version of your pdf with the font embedded. The formatting is not very good, but you can see how the text looks when the font is embedded. You would need to experiment with Calibre's conversion options to get a better formatted output - or go back and fix the formatting manually.

I used:
  • Calibre to convert the PDF to EPUB (using defaults)
  • Fontforge to extract the font from the PDF
  • Sigil to embed the font in the resulting EPUB

EDIT: That PDF appears to be in Gujarati. If you are interested in pursuing unicode conversion, you may try contacting the people here: http://service.gurjardesh.com/FontConversion.aspx. They have an applet which converts a dozen non-unicode Gujarati fonts into unicode text. Unfortunately MGUNJAN is not one of them, but maybe they can be talked into adding it.


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