View Single Post
ich.pdf
Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Cologne, Germany
Posts: 46

Old April 14th, 2016, 04:01 AM
I have a similar issue when pasting from Shadowrun pdfs. It is very odd, because it affects only words with certain sequences of letters. Afaik it is everything with "fi" and "fl". The sequence will be replaced with two spaces upon pasting it into any other program.

I guess that is some sort of copy protection. I don't really have a clue about programming, but probably in your case the pdf actually contains all those spaces, but somewhere in the code it tells the pdf reader to not display single spaces and display only one if there are two...
Just my guess :-D

Haven't found a workaround for that. If I am right, then a "conditioned paste option" would work theoretically. You would have to figure out what the pdf "really" looks like and what the pdf reader is told to ignore and then apply that to a paste mechanism.

I guess there are more urgent things for LWD to care about, but if a talented programmer out there hast too much time :-D
ich.pdf is offline   #4 Reply With Quote