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Discretionary hyphens transform to spaces in PDF

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    • December 5, 2009 at 2:01 pm #51139
      wf1041
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      When creating PDF from InDesign CS4, discretionary hyphens seem to be transformed to very small spaces. 

      When exporting text from this PDF to XML using Acrobat, these small spaces are interpreted as normal spaces if the PDF was created using the Print menu. Words containing discretionary hyphens are thus separated into syllables. Results are thus unusable if you want to extract words.

      If the PDF was created using the Export function, small spaces seem to occur in PDF as well; subsequent XML extraction, however, ignores them so words containing discretionary hyphens are extracted correctly.

      Is this a feature or a bug?

    • December 5, 2009 at 9:24 pm #51140
      David Blatner
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      It sounds like a bug to me, but I've never tried that. In general, however, I strongly recommend that people use File > Export to create PDF files from InDesign.

    • December 7, 2009 at 6:38 pm #51141
      Dwayne Harris
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      I've seen similar things. We had a company who was re-purposing our PDFs and and they were getting things like that. I think it ended up being their workflow and that they had some older version of Acrobat or something.

      But while in the same vein, I have witnessed a lot of RTF files (exported from ID) where the discretionary hyphens have turned into regular hyphens.

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