Corrupt Characters/Symbols in Final PDF Document

[RedPenPolish]

So I am trying to get my final PDF report to stop giving me errors all over my document:

You’re probably thinking, “What could be worse than nukes?†I

“Muffin, let’s

I’ve tried using find/replace and have a substantial list of replacements but it continues to give me these corrupted characters throughout my documents.

Please help. I’ve spent days trying to get this to work.

EDIT: My original document comes from google docs if that affects anything.

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[Wasay-Gumloop]

Hey @RedPenPolish – Can you share your workflow link please? I’ll take a look.

[RedPenPolish]

@Wasay-Gumloop Here you go. It’s happening on all my workbooks. Ignore the “test” sheet. But all the others by the time I get the PDF it has tons of corrupt characters. Very frustrating.

Any and all help would be massively appreciated.

https://www.gumloop.com/pipeline?workbook_id=qN5BPnbgWo5XtQmLDiWFvL&tab=2

[RedPenPolish]

Sorry for the second comment, I forgot to add the @Wasay-Gumloop so Im not sure if it told you I had made a post and didn’t want you to miss this. Thanks again for your help. It really means a lot.

[Wasay-Gumloop]

Hey @RedPenPolish – Thank you for sharing the link, I was able to reproduce the issue and have created a ticket to improving the parsing here when generating a PDF file. This seems to be happening with certain characters only.

In the meantime, I’d recommend using the ‘Google Doc Writer’ node instead. Not ideal but its going to be a lot more robust and flexible.

Sorry for the trouble here!

[RedPenPolish]

Hey @Wasay-Gumloop,

So if I do that, the problem is I cannot get Google Doc Writer to produce a final produce that keeps the original books formatting and keeps the professional report like the generating a PDF did.

Is there another solution? I am trying to make a workflow that helps me edit my book, but putting through 80,000 words is challenging due to caps. Is there a better method than chunking? Chunking seems to ruin formatting.

Thank you for your help, this has been a pretty frustrating process, but Im excited to get it fixed.

[Rithen_Gumloop]

Hey @RedPenPolish , the team is working on a fix and I’ll update you as soon as it’s out.

In the meantime, if the previous solution didn’t work, you can try building a custom node with the parameters you need to generate a PDF without the character issues.

I’ve built one for your use case and added it to your workflow:
https://www.gumloop.com/pipeline?workbook_id=vfbESzwKTChtd2S8MESEt5&tab=1

Feel free to use it or build out a new one to suit your needs.

[RedPenPolish]

@Rithen_Gumloop Ok great! Thank you so much for the quick update! I’m looking forward to the fix, it’ll make all the difference

Also, side note, is there a way to work directly with your team to build out a few workflows? I understand this will have a cost, but I wasn’t sure if this was possible. I’d prefer to get this right quickly so I can move on with my projects.

Anyways, thank again for all the help so far!

[Wasay-Gumloop]

Hey @RedPenPolish –

is there a way to work directly with your team to build out a few workflows?

Not exactly but we have a list of Gumloop experts you can reach out to and hire, all of them are vetted!