Conversion - Input Encoding MacRoman

Hanspl · 12-06-2011, 03:50 PM

Hi,

I'm wrestling to convert some really nasty German language PDFs with umlauts äöüÄÖÜß - they contain several different encodings, I've seen the 'ü' converted in one file to four different wrong glyphs but never right...

The bulk of the documents seem to be encoded in MacRoman (code page 10000? see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_Roman ), but this is not selectable in Calibre's Preferences.

Is there a way to select Input Encoding MacRoman, or could it be added to Calibre?

Thanks, Hans

user_none · 12-06-2011, 03:59 PM

The encoding list is only common ones. You can type in any you need. Look up the Python encoding documentation to see what it's called.

Hanspl · 12-06-2011, 04:17 PM

Oh, wow, thanks - it's called 'mac_roman' !

But this doesn't help -- there must be additional problems. It simply does make no difference whatever I choose for Input Encoding, my umlauts are converted constantly wrong.

These are funny PDFs: in all PDF viewers the umlauts are alright. I can convert them to Postscript (pdftops) - still alright (in evince), and back to PDF (ps2pdf) - still alright. But pdftotext and mark/copy/paste and Calibre give me wrong umlauts... I' stumped.

Thank you, Hans

kovidgoyal · 12-06-2011, 10:26 PM

That will be a pdf that uses non unicode character codes along with an embedded font.

12-06-2011, 03:50 PM	#1
Hanspl Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: South Germany Device: Sony PRS-T1	Conversion - Input Encoding MacRoman Hi, I'm wrestling to convert some really nasty German language PDFs with umlauts äöüÄÖÜß - they contain several different encodings, I've seen the 'ü' converted in one file to four different wrong glyphs but never right... The bulk of the documents seem to be encoded in MacRoman (code page 10000? see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_Roman ), but this is not selectable in Calibre's Preferences. Is there a way to select Input Encoding MacRoman, or could it be added to Calibre? Thanks, Hans

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12-06-2011, 03:59 PM	#2
user_none Sigil & calibre developer Posts: 2,487 Karma: 1063785 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Florida, USA Device: Nook STR	The encoding list is only common ones. You can type in any you need. Look up the Python encoding documentation to see what it's called.

12-06-2011, 04:17 PM	#3
Hanspl Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: South Germany Device: Sony PRS-T1	Oh, wow, thanks - it's called 'mac_roman' ! But this doesn't help -- there must be additional problems. It simply does make no difference whatever I choose for Input Encoding, my umlauts are converted constantly wrong. These are funny PDFs: in all PDF viewers the umlauts are alright. I can convert them to Postscript (pdftops) - still alright (in evince), and back to PDF (ps2pdf) - still alright. But pdftotext and mark/copy/paste and Calibre give me wrong umlauts... I' stumped. Thank you, Hans

12-06-2011, 10:26 PM	#4
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,198 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	That will be a pdf that uses non unicode character codes along with an embedded font.

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