Mixed Characters issue

[biellz1221]

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to convert from PDF to Mobi a book that has a mix of characters from Japanese and Portuguese. It's a study book basically.

When I try directly converting with Calibre, every japanese part breaks, like:

What it should be:
"This structure is always used in this way: ownerのthing."

What Calibre is doing:
"This structure is always used in this way: owner
thing
.
の"
(Yes, if it's in the same sentence, the japanese characters break to be after all the latin characters)

Someone knows how to fix this without having to convert into AZW3 and edditing HTML (it does work when I edit by hand but the book is more than 13k lines of HTML)?

Thanks in advance

[BetterRed]

@biellz1221 - conversion from PDF is problematic, see See Read this before Posting PDF Questions

If you created the book, then what did you use to create it, that would almost certainly be a better place to start.

BR

[biellz1221]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

If you created the book, then what did you use to create it, that would almost certainly be a better place to start.
BR

I did not create the book. It's a textbook for an online course I'm subscribed and it comes in PDF format. I would like to convert it so I may read in my Kindle.

I tried converting the PDF into a word file, it came out with less errors than the MOBI, but calibre does not convert from .doc or .docx

[itimpi]

Originally Posted by biellz1221

I tried converting the PDF into a word file, it came out with less errors than the MOBI, but calibre does not convert from .doc or .docx

Calibre DOES support conversion from .docx. Whether this will give useful results in your case I have no idea.

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by itimpi

Calibre DOES support conversion from .docx. Whether this will give useful results in your case I have no idea.

yet again

Originally Posted by biellz1221

I tried converting the PDF into a word file, it came out with less errors than the MOBI, but calibre does not convert from .doc or .docx

The best thing to do would be ask your bookseller if they have the book in a format other than PDF, preferably in a Kindle format, or failing that as EPUB.

However, if you have MS Word editing skills and your knowledge of editing ePub internals (XHTML and CSS) is limited, I suggest you correct the errors in Word, save as DOCX and then convert the DOCX. See ==>> Format specific conversion tips.

I would convert to EPUB, you may need to do a bit of editing of the EPUB with the calibre editor before converting it to a Kindle format.

This Word add-on might be useful to you ==>> e-Book Tools - a Word add-in. It includes tools specifically targeted at dealing with messy documents created from scanning and PDF conversions. And it can create the EPUB directly.

BR

[biellz1221]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

yet again


The best thing to do would be ask your bookseller if they have the book in a format other than PDF, preferably in a Kindle format, or failing that as EPUB.

However, if you have MS Word editing skills and your knowledge of editing ePub internals (XHTML and CSS) is limited, I suggest you correct the errors in Word, save as DOCX and then convert the DOCX. See ==>> Format specific conversion tips.

I would convert to EPUB, you may need to do a bit of editing of the EPUB with the calibre editor before converting it to a Kindle format.

This Word add-on might be useful to you ==>> e-Book Tools - a Word add-in. It includes tools specifically targeted at dealing with messy documents created from scanning and PDF conversions. And it can create the EPUB directly.

BR

Thanks man =D
I work as a front-end developer so editing XHTML and CSS is fine, but with 13k lines, it's just too much work.

Updating on my MSWord attempt, I was able to convert .docx, but not .doc, and the result of .docx -> .mobi was surprisingly good. The characters worked well as if they were on a single charset and Kindle displayed them just fine. I'll just adjust the .docx input to get a finer MOBI result.

Thanks for all the help =D
I'll definitely try to get in touch with the teachers and talk about having a eReader friendly version of their book, i'm sure it'll help many of my course mates =D

[BetterRed]

@biellz1221 - Sounds like you're cooking with gas - good luck with your Japanese studies.

BR