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Subject:Re: Acrobat 4.0 Good News/Bad News From:Peter Lucas <peterlucas -at- EARTHLINK -dot- NET> Date:Mon, 10 May 1999 12:00:54 -0700
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.
>
