Punctuation in PDF conversions

troymc · 04-09-2010, 04:45 PM

I've recently used calibre to convert several PDFs to epub format. I noticed that formatting tags tend to be greedy and grab nearby punctuation.

eg. (Book Title p22)

gets converted as <i>(Book Title</i> p22) giving one italic parenthesis and one normal parenthesis: (Book Title p22)

and, "this is bold."

gets converted as "this is <b>bold."</b> giving a bold period & quote mark: "this is bold."

Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a calibre issue? or an issue with the original PDF files? (the original PDFs do not appear this way in evince.)

I would think that formatting should exclude nearby punctuation by default.

Troy

kovidgoyal · 04-09-2010, 10:05 PM

This is a pdftohtml issue, though I suppose it should be possible for calibre to work around it. Open a ticket and attach a sample PDF file and I'll see what can be done.

04-09-2010, 04:45 PM	#1
troymc Groupie Posts: 161 Karma: 608 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Plano, TX Device: Sony PRS-505 + B&N Nook + Motion LE1700 + Motorola Xoom Wifi	Punctuation in PDF conversions I've recently used calibre to convert several PDFs to epub format. I noticed that formatting tags tend to be greedy and grab nearby punctuation. eg. (Book Title p22) gets converted as <i>(Book Title</i> p22) giving one italic parenthesis and one normal parenthesis: (Book Title p22) and, "this is bold." gets converted as "this is <b>bold."</b> giving a bold period & quote mark: "this is bold." Has anyone else noticed this? Is this a calibre issue? or an issue with the original PDF files? (the original PDFs do not appear this way in evince.) I would think that formatting should exclude nearby punctuation by default. Troy

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04-09-2010, 10:05 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,219 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	This is a pdftohtml issue, though I suppose it should be possible for calibre to work around it. Open a ticket and attach a sample PDF file and I'll see what can be done.

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