PDF Text Import

[Colin Carpenter]

It's not really a problem, but it can be a bit of nuisance.

If I import a PDF into Extreme Pro 4, everything comes in pretty sweetly, but the text often doesn't look exactly like the text in the PDF, so it needs a bit of playing with to rearrange it and make it look right.

I've noticed that the text seems to contain characters (or something) that I can't see, so if I use the Text tool and click onto the text, then use the arrow keys to move from left to right in the text, I have to press the key twice to move from one character to the next, as if there is some invisible character there with no apparent space on which the cursor now rests. The only thing that seems to change is the value in the Kerning / EMS box which changes from 0 to -3 when it rests on this invisible "thing".

Does anyone know how to get rid of all these invisible "things"? I've tried copy and paste, but they are still present. I can delete them one by one, but that's pretty long winded.

I've attached a small PDF file which should show the problem if imported into Extreme Pro 4.

Thanks.