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Weird characters when pasting text in Word
What I get in Text Attributes is something like this: MSTT316eafa793.... (it goes on and on) but I'd bet it's Helvetica or Arial. Other fonts in the document give me variations of the same long name. I have no way of checking what fonts were really used to create the text. What I don't...- tatichan
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- Forum: Adobe: Acrobat
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Weird characters when pasting text in Word
When I check under File>Document Properties>Fonts it tells me that the fonts and subsets are embedded but I'm not able to edit the text so that may be it. BTW, this is what it looks like when I paste the text into a Word file: _________ __ _______ _____ ____ Even changing the font in Word...- tatichan
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- Forum: Adobe: Acrobat
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Weird characters when pasting text in Word
Hi, I wondered if anyone has encoutered this problem: Sometimes, when I select the text from a PDF (created by a third party) and paste it into Word I get weird characters or just plain lines and dots instead of the text, which I have no problem seeing on screen. I've checked the security...- tatichan
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- Forum: Adobe: Acrobat
