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Old 12-29-2011, 11:01 AM   #1
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In converting PDFs for Kindle left and right quotes get converted to _ and left quote i.e. ‘One day’ becomes _One day‘
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Old 12-29-2011, 03:29 PM   #2
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In converting PDFs for Kindle left and right quotes get converted to _ and left quote i.e. ‘One day’ becomes _One day‘
Try Printing it with PDFCreator installed (choose PDFCreator as your destination printer) which will create a new PDF file and then add it as a new book to Calibre and convert this new PDF file to MOBI for your Kindle.
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Old 12-30-2011, 09:03 AM   #3
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Well, that fixed it. But, I must admit I would like to know why Calibre is having problems with a process I have been using for years to produce PDFs (the PDFs and the Word document that produced them are fine)? Expecting users to install another 3rd party product is probably asking a lot. In programmer-speak this is clearly an off-by-one issue.
Thanks for your help, Dave.
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Old 12-30-2011, 09:46 AM   #4
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Do you have a sample pdf? I have just tried a sample here and cant reproduce this. Almost certainly a problem with the authoring software/font.
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Well, that fixed it. But, I must admit I would like to know why Calibre is having problems with a process I have been using for years to produce PDFs (the PDFs and the Word document that produced them are fine)? Expecting users to install another 3rd party product is probably asking a lot. In programmer-speak this is clearly an off-by-one issue.
Thanks for your help, Dave.
If you have the source in Word creating a PDF in Word then using that for the source of a conversion is asking for trouble. Either save the document as html (filtered) or RTF and use either one as the source to convert to mobi. PDF should never be an intermediate format for conversions and if possible PDF should be avoided as a source for any conversion.
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The problem does not appear to be in the PDF itself since all I did was installed PDFReader and all was well. How is the conversion done when PDFReader is not installed? I agree wholeheartedly conversion via PDF does not work well and I will look into the other suggestions by dwanthy.
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