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Text copied from PDF (made by acrobat pro 8) becomes gibrish

Nina
Registered: Jul 31 2007
Posts: 2

Hi, I have a problem with copying a live text from a PFD made by Acrobat professional 8, when i copy and pastthe text it comes out as gibrish, mainly bunch of squares and wierd looking characters, I tried embeding fonts in all kind of ways, following the help instructions, but nothing works, on the other hand when I am exporting directly to PDF the text comes out live and OK, that tells me that the problem I have is in the setting of acrobat Pro 8 and not in the fonts. Please advise...

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8, Windows
dbaker
Expert
Registered: Feb 10 2006
Posts: 413
Hi --

There isn't anything you can do about the file other than exporting the text from the file. The problem isn't related to the fonts, but to the PostScript used to write the PDF file.

donna.

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