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bfriesen18-Opal
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May 6, 2022 3:38 PM UTC
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Copying and pasting text in pdf shows )

We publish our files ps and distill them to get the file down to a manageable file size. We have found that if you select some text in the pdf you get ) instead of words. If I go to edit pdf in Acrobat it tells me that the font is calibri so It seems to find the font. Where do I look for the issue.

 

Bryon

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bfriesen
bfriesen18-OpalAuthor
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May 6, 2022 3:58 PM UTC

It seems if you choose copy with formatting instead of copy, it will copy the text as shown. Is there a way to ensure that does not have to be done.

 

Bryon 

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ClayHelberg18-Opal
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May 10, 2022 6:26 PM UTC

I suspect this has to do with font subset embedding. If you embed only a subset of the font, it only includes the glyphs that are used in the document, and I think in that case it uses a custom encoding to index the reduced set of characters.

 

I would try tweaking your distiller settings to embed full fonts instead of subsets and see if that helps.

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