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Adobe Acrobat does not recognize special characters

HX38798
Registered: Aug 27 2008
Posts: 3

I am in the U.S. and am converting a file that has a weblink to a document in Portugese.

When I convert the document to PDF, Adobe Acrobat is unable to recognize the special characters and is changing as shown below and therefore the link will not work:

Diretório - Diret%F3rio
Previdência - Previd%EAncia
Inscrição - Inscri%E7%E3o

I tried editing the link in Adobe Acrobat, but it still does not recognize these special characters. Is there anything I can do?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0, Windows
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Actually, Acrobat is recognizing the characters. These non-ASCII characters are shown in their URL encoded state.
"URL-Safe Encoding" consists of "%" followed by the two-digit hexadecimal representaton of the ISO-Latin code point for the character.

Consider that spaces in a URL are routinely URL encoded to "%20" and this does not "break" the link (actually, it kinda-sorta has to be done if the URL is to be proper).

Your post was not explicit on this but have you tried, in the PDF, using the TouchUp Text tool to select the %string and using Window's Character Map to select the desired character and copy it to the clipboard;
then, back at the PDF, pasting to overwrite the selected string?
(In the Character Map, try Arial Unicode MS as the font and Unicode as the Character set.)

It might be worth checking what character set/language your source file is using. Use of ISO Latin-1 ought to pass the character through to the PDF rather than the URL encoded hexadecimal values. This worked for some trial PDFs out of FrameMaker and MS Word.

Some references to check out:
[url]http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/uri-spec.php[/url]
[url]http://www.danshort.com/ASCIImap/indexhex.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/html/topics/urlencoding.htm[/url]

Be well...



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Diretório - Diret%F3rio
Previdência - Previd%EAncia
Inscrição - Inscri%E7%E3o

Character ó (decimal is 243, hexidecimal is F3)

Character ê (decimal is 234, hexidecimal is EA)

Character Ç (decimal is 199, hexidecimal is E7)

Character ã (decimal is 227, hexidecimal is E3)

Be well...