From 50334bf1a5d5ce6579848f875a7a4063181ac10d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Schember <john@nachtimwald.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 21:27:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bug #770534: Problem converting pdf containing the string
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---
 src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
index 8822a39b87..885d0621e0 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/preprocess.py
@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ class HTMLPreProcessor(object):
                   (re.compile(r'((?<=</a>)\s*file:/{2,4}[A-Z].*<br>|file:////?[A-Z].*<br>(?=\s*<hr>))', re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''),
 
                   # Center separator lines
-                  (re.compile(u'<br>\s*(?P<break>([*#•✦=]+\s*)+)\s*<br>'), lambda match: '<p>\n<p style="text-align:center">' + match.group(1) + '</p>'),
+                  (re.compile(u'<br>\s*(?P<break>([*#•✦=] *){3,})\s*<br>'), lambda match: '<p>\n<p style="text-align:center">' + match.group('break') + '</p>'),
 
                   # Remove page links
                   (re.compile(r'<a name=\d+></a>', re.IGNORECASE), lambda match: ''),