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skillful_Marvel5E23
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February 13, 2020
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Problem with hyphen in pdf from indesign

  • February 13, 2020
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I have now in several different documents had the same 
problem that some words, at the end of a sentence and 
with a hyphen, in the exported pdf, appear with a strange sign. 
I don't see this sign in indesign, but in the pdf it's clear. What is this cause?


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    LaubenderCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    September 10, 2021

    Hi together,

    I think, that's a known bug!

     

    Did you enable the option "PDF Tags" in the export preset for PDF?

    Try to disable it and export again.

     

    If this is not possible because you need a tagged PDF we have to go to the source of the issue. And unfortunately this is the usage of the "Adobe World-Ready Composer" plus perhaps some formatting overrides with your paragraphs. Change text composition to the "Adobe Paragraph Composer" or the "Adobe Single-line Composer" to get rid of the issue. However that means, that you have to proofread the whole document again.

     

    Read about all the details here:

     

    Automatic hyphens randomly have letters in them
    bracewell4213, 2 hours ago
    https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign/automatic-hyphens-randomly-have-letters-in-them/td-p/1218946...

     

    Support a fix of that bug, I can see it already in InDesign CS6, and vote at InDesign UserVoice:

     

    PDF Hyphenation Bug when line has cross-reference, hyphenated word, and option is to create Tagged PDF
    Sonny Rafael, February 13, 2019

    https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/601180-adobe-indesign-bugs/suggestions/36835285-pdf-hyphenatio...

     

    Regards,
    Uwe Laubender

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    Marc5C2A
    Participant
    January 13, 2021

    I have the same problem, did you find a solution yet?

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    skillful_Marvel5E23Author
    Participant
    January 13, 2021

    No, I never solved the problem, and still have it with many different types of font;(

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      KR!STO
      Participant
      September 10, 2021

      My two cents. I had the similar problem. In my case I found out that I had 2 different languages set inside one paragraph. After changing whole paragraph to one language, everything works fine. As soon as I set one word to be from different language, similar problem with hyphen over character is back.

        Jongware
        Community Expert
        JongwareCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        February 13, 2020

        What font is it? Does it only happen with this specific font?

         

        It looks like it may not have embedded correctly. Deleting it entirely from your system, and re-installing it might fix this.

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