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Copy/Paste problems

Solitaryman
Registered: Mar 9 2007
Posts: 12

I have to copy/paste information of PDF files to build a database, but sometimes the text I got is separated within. This happen in all the computers I tested it and is using the copy/paste tool from Acrobat. Why is this?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 6.0.5, Windows
tedpadova
ExpertTeam
Registered: Dec 31 2005
Posts: 848
What exactly is "got separated within?" Do you mean spaces are added between text characters? Are you copying field data or copying text on a page? What are you pasting to?

You might have better success by pasting text into Word or a text editor then copy/paste to your target application. At any rate, we need a little more information in order to answer this question.

ted

The author of numerous books on Acrobat, Photoshop, Illustrator and the Adobe Creative Suite, and an international speaker on Adobe Acrobat, Ted Padova is a well-known PDF guru.