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Tech issue: Non printable characters when downloading PDF
Hi. I'm not sure I'm posting this is the right forum. If I'm not, just point me toward the right place and I'll fix it.
I subscribed to the Disney Cruise Live yesterday, and I downloaded teh book in pdf so that my son could read it. I also put a copy on my tablet, so I can carry it around with me.
The pdf is almost unreadable in places -- symbols in places of some characters (hyphens, for examples). There are large blank spaces in sentences that I think are links in the Live book.
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Do you really need to print out the book? Did you know that you can give your access info to your son so he can read it on his computer or device? You can both make comments, bookmark, etc., that way.
If you still want a hard copy, but you don't need every single page, look at the tools menu on the righthand side of the page you're on. There you'll see "Print-Friendly Page". Using that will print the page just as you see it. However, since it's primarily a digital version, some of the pages will actually be 2 or even 3 page long (especially the port excursions pages--those are huge).
I think sharing the digital version should take care of most of your needs, though. Does this work for you?
PS: this is exactly the right place to post that question!
I wasn't looking to print the book -- and the issue comes from the fact that I am sharing the digital version.
I downloaded the pdf onto his tablet and mine, but the downloaded ebook is full of non-printable characters, which make it very hard to read. Our tablets only have wifi, so using the live version isn't an option for those.
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I wasn't looking to print the book -- and the issue comes from the fact that I am sharing the digital version.
I downloaded the pdf onto his tablet and mine, but the downloaded ebook is full of non-printable characters, which make it very hard to read. Our tablets only have wifi, so using the live version isn't an option for those.
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I see--those characters are annoying, and you won't have wi-fi on the ship.
Can you just use the wi-fi and the LIVE! Guide for planning, and then print out the pages you need to take with you (using the print-friendly pages function)? Or do you spend a lot of time away from wi-fi?
If this doesn't work, I'll ask Jennifer to address your question, so please let me know.
I hope not, but this looks like a similar problem with how articles appeared on the boards formerly.
Those were annoying to read because apostrophes and quotation marks appeared as nonsense characters.
Jennifer tried but was only able to resolve the problem, she said, by posting a link to the article here on the boards. I don't know why that was a getaround, nor perhaps does she, but it worked.
Unfortunately, something similar would hardly fix your difficulty.
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I see--those characters are annoying, and you won't have wi-fi on the ship.
Can you just use the wi-fi and the LIVE! Guide for planning, and then print out the pages you need to take with you (using the print-friendly pages function)? Or do you spend a lot of time away from wi-fi?
If this doesn't work, I'll ask Jennifer to address your question, so please let me know.
I do intend to use the live guide for planning. But if the functionality is there to download the book, it should be a clean copy of the book -- especially when I'm going to be handing that book to a minor so he can pick what excursions he'd like us to try and reserve.
I do intend to use the live guide for planning. But if the functionality is there to download the book, it should be a clean copy of the book -- especially when I'm going to be handing that book to a minor so he can pick what excursions he'd like us to try and reserve.
Thanks!
Has Jennifer been able to take a look? I imagine her time is at a premium.
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Has Jennifer been able to take a look? I imagine her time is at a premium.
I'm sorry, I didn't ask because I was a little confused--my bad! So please help me get my head straight on what you're looking for.
Is it that you want to have a copy of the guide in PDF form, without the odd symbols? It was designed primarily as an interactive guide, not a book, so the PDF is going to have some odd things here and there, and I don't think that can be helped--the HTML codes don't translate well, I guess.
So are you unable to use wi-fi to do your planning with the actual LIVE! Guide?
I'll go ahead and ask Jennifer to look at your question. I hope we can find a way for you get what you need.
I edited the page you included a screenshot for, saved it, and downloaded it again -- this time the question-mark boxes are gone. I'm not sure what is causing it to appear on some pages and not others. I am now aware of it, however, and I will go through each page to identify and fix the issues. As this is a rather large book, I beg your patience while I work on this.
The good news is that this is not a widespread issue -- I'm on page 127 and I haven't found a recurrence yet. I will continue looking and I will fix as I find them.
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I edited the page you included a screenshot for, saved it, and downloaded it again -- this time the question-mark boxes are gone. I'm not sure what is causing it to appear on some pages and not others. I am now aware of it, however, and I will go through each page to identify and fix the issues. As this is a rather large book, I beg your patience while I work on this.
The good news is that this is not a widespread issue -- I'm on page 127 and I haven't found a recurrence yet. I will continue looking and I will fix as I find them.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention!
You're welcome! I imagine there aren't a lot of people who are looking to download the book so their kids can read it. (Weirdo, that's me! )
I've done a bit of prepping manuscripts for making ebooks -- it stinks when the underlying code doesn't want to play nice (especially when you didn't even know the code was there!)
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