Copying Text from Adobe Acrobat into Adobe Indesign and the letter t & i turn into a 7

Question

Im trying to copy text supplied to me as a pdf so I've opened it into acrobat and then copy the text into indesign. When I do this all the words with a ti in it change to a 7 and then any 7's turn into a ti.

I've never had this issue before.

I've got ligatures turned off in indesign and have tried saving the pdf as a word doc but the same thing happens.

Does anyone know how or why this is happening and how to fix it?

leo.r · Accepted Answer

I don't know why it happens but extracting text from PDF can be a hit-and-miss (it can depend of the way PDF was created). I'm afraid the only solution for you is to find-replace the extracted text in InDesign. (Although it's possible that other users know more about this issue and will suggest a better solution.)

BobLevine · Answer

Not unusual at all. You can try saving the PDF as a Word file to see if that cleans things up a bit but there's really no 100% way of predicting what you'll get.

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.