Hard Hyphen are not captured in PDF.

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March 2, 2021
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When i copy the below hyphenate word ("getting-") and paste into notepad, the hyphen are not captured (refer the screenshot). but, visibily hyphen present in pdf. I have checked various acrobat versions like Acrobat 8 to Acrobat DC. But, all are comes same results only. Please advise why this issue happened in pdf and how to solve this type of issue?. It would be helpful for our organisation.

I have attached affected page for your reference.

Warm thanks,

Shankari.

Hyphen_issue-.pdf

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JR Boulay

Community Expert

An hyphen is something "virtual", it's not part of the text.

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

try67

Community Expert

Well, that depends. Hyphens in the middle of a phrase are certainly part of the text, like in "middle-aged", but hyphens that appear at the end of a line are (usually) not, although they can be, like in the example file above.

That's why it's important to encode them correctly.

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What is the character to insert in the text to indicate a hard hyphen, and how do we access this character, which will remain when the text is converted into another line with a different width?

try67

Community Expert

It's not a hard hyphen, then. It's tagged as an "end of line" hyphen (the kind you use when splitting a word at the end of a line so it can continue in the next one), and is therefore removed by Acrobat when the text is copied.

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