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mimesys · 05-14-2010, 08:23 AM

I am a new user of calibre and I love it.
I am more interested in making Indian ebooks available to my library.
now the problem is with converting nonenglish characters into epub format.
i read on the site about conversion process and learned that i need to specify
input character encoding option.
I do not know whts my file's encoding.
I am attaching the file with nonenglish characters.can anybody help me converting it to epub format?

thank you,
Mimesys

Dave_S · 05-14-2010, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mimesys

I am a new user of calibre and I love it.
I am more interested in making Indian ebooks available to my library.
now the problem is with converting nonenglish characters into epub format.
i read on the site about conversion process and learned that i need to specify
input character encoding option.
I do not know whts my file's encoding.
I am attaching the file with nonenglish characters.can anybody help me converting it to epub format?

thank you,
Mimesys

This extract from your PDF file says that your file uses "WinAnsiEncoding"

Code:

/Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding 
/FontDescriptor 7 0 R 
>> 
endobj
7 0 obj
<< 
/Type /FontDescriptor 
/FontName /MGUNJAN

I am no EPUB expert, but I would think that you would need to embed that MGUNJAN font into your EPUB document, since ANSI encoding would produce much different results with English language fonts?

troymc · 05-14-2010, 01:48 PM

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.

Troy

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