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Wacky things with Adobe Reader / Acrobat Reader

  • 04-06-2007 12:56AM
    #1
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,904 ✭✭✭✭


    If I copy and paste the contents of an Acrobat document into, say, Notepad I find that the result isn't faithful. For example, this text was originally like the image:
    Adobe Reader 4.0 wrote:
    CAIGHDÉ IN AGUS FORFHEIDHMIÚ /STANDARDS AND ENFORCEMENT,
    TEACH CHLUAIN FEARTA, SRÁID BHRÍDE, BAILE LOCHA RIACH, CONTAE NA GAILLIMHE.
    CLONFERT HOUSE, BRIDE STREET, LOUGHREA, CO.GALWAY.
    TEL:(...)...... FAX::(...)...... EMAIL::digitaltacho@rsa.ie WEB:www.rsa.ie
    PUBLIC OFFICE OPENING HOURS:
    MONDAY -FRIDAY
    ....AM -....PM &....PM -....PM
    Adobe Reader 7.0 wrote:
    CAIGHDÉ IN AGUS FORFHEIDHMIÚ / STANDARDS AND ENFORCEMENT,
    TEACH CHLUAIN FEARTA, SRÁID BHRÍDE, BAILE LOCHA RIACH, CONTAE NA GAILLIMHE.
    CLONFERT HOUSE, BRIDE STREET, LOUGHREA, CO. GALWAY.
    TEL: ()  FAX: ()  EMAIL: digitaltacho@rsa.ie WEB: www.rsa.ie
    PUBLIC OFFICE OPENING HOURS:
    MONDAY - FRIDAY
    .AM - .PM & .PM - .PM

    Original document here: http://www.rsa.ie/NEWS/upload/File/Driver%20Card%20Info%20Ver2%2031.07.pdf

    Other times ", " [comma space] is interpreted as "," [comma], hyphens appear and disappear and so on.

    Any ideas why?


Comments

  • #2
    feylya
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 23,365 Mod ✭✭✭✭feylya


    Not fixing the problem but try FoxIt Reader and see if it works. If it doesn't, you may be missing a font


  • #3
    Michael G
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 797 ✭✭✭Michael G


    Notepad isn't made to deal with RTF documents which is what Adobe Acrobat is trying to give you. You have to use a word processor lilke Microsoft Word or WordPerfect.


  • #4
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,904 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Michael G wrote:
    Notepad isn't made to deal with RTF documents which is what Adobe Acrobat is trying to give you. You have to use a word processor lilke Microsoft Word or WordPerfect.
    No I don't think its that. MS Word 2003 is having hte same problem as Adobe Reader 7.0

    What really worries me is things like the following:
    Adobe Reader 4.0 wrote:
    [noparse]EMAIL::digitaltacho@rsa.ie[/noparse]
    Adobe Reader 7.0 wrote:
    [noparse]EMAIL: digitaltacho@rsa.ie[/noparse]

    In the original PDF (using Adobe Reader 7.0), one sees one colon (":"). The same in MS Word 2003 and Notepad. In Adobe Reader 4.0, one see two colons.


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