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copy and paste text from Acrobat (any file) to another application (Word, Mail) produces italics

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
November 15, 2021
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When I copy and paste text from Acrobat (any file) to word, it comes out in Italics. Is there a reason? I want Roman characters (no itals).

Is there a setting in Acrobat that controls this output?

Not an issue using Preview or PDF Expert. So there is clearly a setting in Acrobat that is causing this.

(Never used to.)

Using lateest Acrobat DC Pro and latest Monterey. tx

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Michael37821567aj0e

Participant

Wa, amazing. This has been going on for 3 years and unaddressed. Extremely frustrating that such a minor, but pervasive problem is unaddressed.
It happens to me on my Apple M1 over multiple OS's, when I copy from Acrobat (Pro) into anything - Word, Onenote, notepad. It is not a matter of the *pasting* process, it is a matter of Adobe adding italics during the *copying*.
Workaround solutions are just lazy on the part of Adobe, stating "we created the problem, but talk to the hand". Also, CMD+Shift+V doesn't work on many platforms, including Onenote.

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mark_4349

Participant

Yes, I too have been struggling with this for years. It is so frustrating I'm looking for a different reader app. Adobe has been utterly non-responsive.

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mark_4349

Participant

Apple "Preview" works as an alternative app--no copy-and-paste added itlalics!

AdrianR123

Participant

Try it now

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JN_DK

Participant

Just tried again, still the same issue.

Amal.

Community Manager

Hi All

Hope you are doing well. The new version of Adobe Acrobat 23.01.2006x is live now, please update the application from the help menu > Check for updates and reboot the computer once.

You may also download the patch manually from the link https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNotesDC/index.html

Let us know how it works.

Regards

Amal

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turtle2023

Participant

it worked for me! thank you!

updated the application from the help menu > Checked for updates and rebooted the computer once.

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turtle2023

Participant

Correction: It does NOT work!

It keeps pasting in italics. I rushed into my happiness. I must have been half-asleep when I tested it because I tried many times since then, and it always pasted in italics.

Sorry for the confusion and, any other suggestions to fix the issue, please?

thanks!

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Tian287457161w8p

Participant

same here. All the text of any kind of pdf file, once pasted, will turn into italicized ones. Never met any issue like this when using Zotero or preview. This problem costs me a lot more time when trying to take notes for my readings.

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Angelica27929178vnyz

Participant

I have this issue too on my M1 Mac and it's frustating on a daily basis and I copy and paste from Acrobat to word many times during the work day! Please fix it!

Amal.

Community Manager

Hi @Angelica27929178vnyz

Hope you are doing well and sorry to hear that.

Is this an issue with a particular PDF file or with all the PDFs? Please try with a different PDF file and check. If the file is stored on a shared network/drive please download it to your computer locally and then try again.

What is the version of the Acrobat DC you are using? To check the version go to Help > About Acrobat and make sure you have the recent version 22.3.20310 installed. Go to Help > Check for updates and reboot the computer once.

Please try to reset the Acrobat preferences as described here https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/how-to-reset-acrobat-preference-settings-to-default/td-p/4792082

You may also try to create a new test user profile with full admin rights or enable the root account in MAC and try using the application there and check.

Regards

Amal

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JIPNETAuthor

Inspiring

All files. All applications (pasting). I have no interest in testing this by resetting my prefs, since I don't want to lose them. If this is a known issue, there ought to be a fix on your end. While you're at it, why doesn't control-G advance the search to the next result? this has been widely reported on this site. Very annoying.

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turtle2023

Participant

I have the same issue showing on Macbook air M1, Monterey. The same pdf documents won't display this behavior on Macbook air Catalina.

Any help, please?

thanks!

try67

Community Expert

Paste the text into a plain-text editor first, which will strip any formatting settings, then copy it from there and paste into Word.

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JIPNETAuthor

Inspiring

That's a pis aller. There are any number of ways to fix this problem after the fact, but it remains a bug and does not exist on pre-M1 machines. Adobe should address it.

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banjomoomintoog

Participant

I have the same issue - it began around Autumn last year. I am running Big Sur. it is not fixed by doing SHIFT + CMD + V. Any ideas?

try67

Community Expert

Try pasting the text as unformatted, using Ctrl+Shift+V.

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JIPNETAuthor

Inspiring

just saw your post. Is that a mac command? I find that command-control-V brings up a menu option (formatted/unformatted) called Paste Special; but that takes more steps than selecting and de-italicizing pasted text. It also works only in Word, but not in (say) apple mail.

My real question is why this behavior is occurring. It never used to do this. And because it occurs outside of Word, it has to be something going on in this Acrobat on this machine (not happening on an intel iMac running the same versions of OS and Acrobat) Is there a way to trouble shoot this? tx

Meenakshi Negi

Community Manager

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out.

As per your information above, we did try to replicate the behaviour at our end. However, it does not paste the text in Italics in Word file.

Would you mind sharing the Acrobat and MS Word version numbers?

It would be helpful if you can share a small video of the issue occurring at your end.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

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