Bug in converting PDF to AZW3

Leisureguy · 07-14-2020, 06:58 PM

There seems to be a bug that converts "ll" (double lower-case L) to " l".

Is there a workaround? Is this a known problem? Did I just do something wrong.

I added the PDF as a book, then used Calibre's convert function to convert the PDF to AZW3. All double lower-case L's were converted to " l".

Apologies if this is not the appropriate place to report bugs. I could find no link for bug reports.

jhowell · 07-14-2020, 07:13 PM

Check out the thread: Read this before Posting PDF Questions, especially the section titled "Various character pairs like 'ff', 'll', etc are missing from my conversion".

theducks · 07-14-2020, 07:15 PM

The keyword is Ligature (ll,ffi, fi, Ae...)
so, no, that was a single character: ll
The font glyph in PDF does not map to a Unicode font, nor was the actual glyph recognizable to assign either individual characters, of the equivalent.

BTW this is a Conversion issue, not Editor. I moved your post

Leisureguy · 07-17-2020, 09:52 AM

Many thanks for the link. That explains the issue, and I had not seen that post. It's too bad the conversion program does not include scanning the document and substituting normal characters for the ligatures. Perhaps in time that will come.

theducks · 07-17-2020, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Leisureguy

Many thanks for the link. That explains the issue, and I had not seen that post. It's too bad the conversion program does not include scanning the document and substituting normal characters for the ligatures. Perhaps in time that will come.

Try the Spell check included in the Editor. It might suggest (the correct

) fixes, for a word. and allow you to select it and replace all occurrences.

The red underline in the editor text, only works on that occurrence

Leisureguy · 07-24-2020, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

Try the Spell check included in the Editor. It might suggest (the correct

) fixes, for a word. and allow you to select it and replace all occurrences.

The red underline in the editor text, only works on that occurrence

Many thanks. Excellent idea. I much appreciate the suggestion.

07-14-2020, 06:58 PM	#1
Leisureguy Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle DX	Bug in converting PDF to AZW3 There seems to be a bug that converts "ll" (double lower-case L) to " l". Is there a workaround? Is this a known problem? Did I just do something wrong. I added the PDF as a book, then used Calibre's convert function to convert the PDF to AZW3. All double lower-case L's were converted to " l". Apologies if this is not the appropriate place to report bugs. I could find no link for bug reports.

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07-14-2020, 07:13 PM	#2
jhowell Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,051 Karma: 91577715 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Charlottesville, VA Device: Kindles	Check out the thread: Read this before Posting PDF Questions, especially the section titled "Various character pairs like 'ff', 'll', etc are missing from my conversion".

07-14-2020, 07:15 PM	#3
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 30,933 Karma: 60358908 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	The keyword is Ligature (ll,ffi, fi, Ae...) so, no, that was a single character: ll The font glyph in PDF does not map to a Unicode font, nor was the actual glyph recognizable to assign either individual characters, of the equivalent. BTW this is a Conversion issue, not Editor. I moved your post

07-17-2020, 09:52 AM	#4
Leisureguy Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kindle DX	Many thanks for the link. That explains the issue, and I had not seen that post. It's too bad the conversion program does not include scanning the document and substituting normal characters for the ligatures. Perhaps in time that will come.

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