I recently created a PDF from a Word document and some data was deleted. There was a date (e.g. December 2006) and then a superscript footnote "1)" right after the 2006, with no space in between. When I made the PDF, the year and the "1" from the footnote (but not the bracket) were deleted. This happened several times with the same document but I've had similar documents in which this didn't happen. When I inserted a space between the "2006" and the "1)" the PDF was created without problem. Any tips on how I can avoid this happening again? Why is data occasionally deleted in a PDF version?
That is an interesting issue. I've never had that experience, but you seem to have stumbled on the workaround. When you add footnotes into your docs, just be sure to configure them with a leading space in the Footnotes and Endnotes dialog.
How or why that should do the trick is obviously related to how Word assigns structure to your files and then how Acrobat interprets the structure.
Sorry I don't have a cut and dried answer.
donna.
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