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Old 06-25-2011, 06:30 AM   #1
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Question Italics not exporting from pdf
I am having problems exporting italicisation from PDFs.

I have been working on a series of books where the source supplied is pdf, so I am exporting from Acrobat X as HTML, the HTML is a mess but a few minutes work in Dreamweaver makes it usable with Sigil.

So far so good.

But now the problem. After doing 40 books the 41st refuses to export the italics, the text is there, its just not italicised (no <i> tags or italic styles in the css). The italics are visible in the pdf and there is an italic font embedded in the pdf. I have tried loads of online and stand alone conversion tools but none of them solves my problem.

Any ideas anyone?
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Old 06-26-2011, 03:46 AM   #2
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Try with OCR, treating the PDF as scanned images.
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Old 06-27-2011, 05:08 AM   #3
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have you tried with rtf export?
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Old 06-30-2011, 03:39 PM   #4
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have you tried with rtf export?
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Try with OCR, treating the PDF as scanned images.
Yep, tried rtf, xml, word.doc, word.docx, html, html - filtered and OCR. nothing works except PDFtoEPUB, which makes the worst HTML I've ever seen.
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I know nothing of Acrobat x so forgive me if my post seems silly.
When I have a similar problem with Adobe Reader I copy a section of the text which includes the problem text. Paste into Word.
From the Format menu I select Styles and Formatting to open the panel. I next put the insertion point inside the problem word(s and see what the panel tells me in the 'Formatting of selected text' box.
Hover the mouse over box then click on the right down arrow.
Select 'Reveal Formatting'.
This may give you some clue as to what's happening.
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Old 07-02-2011, 07:04 AM   #6
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Sometimes in PDFs I have noticed text being listed twice, once in plain text and another time as part of a caption box or something of that sort. Sometimes a conversion program will get the one, but not the other.

Is the text always associated with something else like an illustration? If it is, finding and fixing might be the least stressful way to approach it.
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Old 07-04-2011, 11:37 AM   #7
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Dillinquent - I'm having a similar problem when I cut and past books in the word.doc format into Indesign to begin to create an epub. It leaves out all the italics and I have to style them all manually. Has anyone else run into this going from MS Word into Indesing? Thanks - Michael
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Yep, tried rtf, xml, word.doc, word.docx, html, html - filtered and OCR. nothing works except PDFtoEPUB, which makes the worst HTML I've ever seen.
Dilliquent - I think Jelby may have meant OCR'ing hard copies rather than OCR from inside Acrobat. I also found that if you open that "really bad" HTML from the Acrobat export in a browser you can copy from the display rather than the source to another program that exports it to cleaner HTML. i.e. I exported from Acrobat to HTML with CSS opened in Firefox copied from Firefox to InDesign and didn't get a paragraph character at the end of every line which you do with most of the exports from PDF.

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Dillinquent - I'm having a similar problem when I cut and past books in the word.doc format into Indesign to begin to create an epub. It leaves out all the italics and I have to style them all manually. Has anyone else run into this going from MS Word into Indesing? Thanks - Michael
Try importing the word doc rather than copy and paste. That might work.
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Dilliquent - I think Jelby may have meant OCR'ing hard copies rather than OCR from inside Acrobat. I also found that if you open that "really bad" HTML from the Acrobat export in a browser you can copy from the display rather than the source to another program that exports it to cleaner HTML. i.e. I exported from Acrobat to HTML with CSS opened in Firefox copied from Firefox to InDesign and didn't get a paragraph character at the end of every line which you do with most of the exports from PDF.
Actually, many OCR programs can OCR directly from PDF files. This is generally the best method, if available.

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Have you tried pdfreflow?
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Old 07-21-2011, 07:14 AM   #11
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Thanks frabjous; pdfreflow works a treat.
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