Copying/Pasting Text from PDFs to InDesign

The other day I needed to copy a paragraph of text from a client-supplied PDF into an InDesign layout. Of course, I was in a hurry, and of course, the copy came in with a hard return at the end of every line. Don’t you hate it when that happens?

On the left, the selected text in Acrobat Pro 8, on the right, the pasted result in InDesign:

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