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I have a pdf file which contains some non-latin european characters. If I copy some text with the highlight tool, and paste it into another program (word, notepad) - the 'special' characters do not transfer correctly (I get other odd characters in their place). I have tried copying the text from both Acrobat Reader and Foxit. Is there anything I can do here to copy this? Thanks
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The most likely answer is that the text in the PDF document does not contain the right characters. What you see isn't necessarily what you get with PDF, the text that you copy from and the image that you see are two different things, and in many cases that text is just an OCR reading of the image, which probably doesn't recognize the non-latin characters. | |||
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It sounds like it could be an encoding issue. Make sure that both files are set to a Unicode encoding (probably UTF-8). I'm not entirely sure how to do this in Acrobat Reader, but Notepad and Word allow you to set this. See http://www.text-editor.org/encoding.htm for more info on encoding. | |||
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Perhaps,in the latest version of Pdf writer, Unicode text cannot be embedded as code points, only glyphs of the open type fonts are embedded in the pdf document. | |||
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