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April 27, 2019
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Spotty highlighting/text selection for PDF

  • April 27, 2019
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Hi, on the latest version (Adobe Reader 2019.010.20099) I have issues selecting and highlighting text on some PDFs.  On a Chrome-based pdf viewer, however, I have no issue selecting the text, so I believe this is an Adobe Issue and NOT a PDF issue.  Is this a bug that needs to be fixed?

Same PDF on chrome:

Thanks for your help.

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Correct answer medrobotics

Ok - I found the solution.  The issue was document structure tags, that typically are not properly created when conversion to PDF from other programs - in this case, Microsoft Powerpoint.  Either ensuring these are not included (i.e. uncheck document structure tags when creating a PDF in powerpoint) or compressing the PDF (removing the document structure tags) fixes the problem!

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Participant
May 7, 2019

Ok - I found the solution.  The issue was document structure tags, that typically are not properly created when conversion to PDF from other programs - in this case, Microsoft Powerpoint.  Either ensuring these are not included (i.e. uncheck document structure tags when creating a PDF in powerpoint) or compressing the PDF (removing the document structure tags) fixes the problem!

Participant
May 9, 2022

Thank you so much! I've been struggling with the same issue for months but could not find a solution by browsing the web. Finally, I found the right answer!