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Subject:Re: Acrobat 4.0 Good News/Bad News From:"Hirschi, Philip" <PHirschi -at- FILENET -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 10 May 1999 15:59:23 -0700
Thanks to all who played around with this. What we found was that Acrobat
Distiller had to be set to Acrobat 4.0 compatibility. As soon as I did,
Acrobat could find and successfully copy the "c" character.
Earlier we'd had our machines set to 3.0 Compatibility. So now we've got a
decision to make!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharon Burton-Hardin [SMTP:sharonburton -at- EMAIL -dot- MSN -dot- COM]
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 3:01 PM
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> Subject: Re: Acrobat 4.0 Good News/Bad News
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> Are you using a True type font? I see this problem with TT fonts. Another
> reason to use only PS fonts.
>
> sharon
>
> Sharon Burton-Hardin
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> From: Peter Lucas <peterlucas -at- EARTHLINK -dot- NET>
> To: <TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU>
> Sent: Monday, 10 May, 1999 12:00 PM
> Subject: Re: Acrobat 4.0 Good News/Bad News
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>
> | What a cool sounding bug! Unfortunately, I tried to reproduce your
> problem,
> | but I couldn't. I had no problem cutting and pasting text with the
> letter
> | "c" and punctuation.
> |
> | Peter Lucas
> |
> |
> | > I just found an annoying problem with Acrobat 4.0. If you use
> the
> | >Text Select Tool to select some text in a PDF, and then copy it, and
> then
> | >paste it into Word, Notepad, Wordpad, or Outlook mail, the letter "c"
> | >disappears. Unfortunately I am not joking about this. Spacing around
> | >punctuation disappears as well, and who knows what else. I find myself
> | >typing "c" back into snippets that I'm mailing off to testers so they
> won't
> | >think I'm illiterate.
> | >
> |
> |
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