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On Feb 10, 10:02*am, Allistar <b...@c.com> wrote:
> Steve B. wrote:
> > A curiousity, possibly to do with the frequently irritating PDF format
> > [yes, I appreciate that's a tautology, like "PIN number" - and that I
> > might irritate some people who actually LIKE pdfs.]
>
> > Anyway, I was reading a PDF document which contained a bullet-point
> > list (the classic black blobs). I copied one of the points in the
> > list, inadvertently including the bullet, and pasted it into a
> > Microsoft Word document.
>
> > I then went to put text of my own around the quote and it came out in
> > pseudo-Greek.
>
> > I realised the black dot is part of the Symbol font and that font
> > setting held for the text I was inserting.
>
> > Easily fixed, but it's an error I've not seen before.
>
> > I created a bulleted list in Word and tried to reproduce the oddity,
> > but I can't make it happen. The blob still registers as Symbol but
> > adjacent inserted text doesn't seem to pick up that setting in Word.
>
> > Is this something peculiar to PDFs? Or did the author of the document
> > create his bulleted list in an irregular way?
>
> > Just curious.
>
> It's most likely a peculiarity of the particular PDF reader you are using,
> not of the PDF file itself. What reader software are you cutting from?
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I was using the standard free Adobe reader; can't give you the release
number as I'm not at my home machine right now; but it's the latest
version, I'm almost sure; I upgraded it only a few days ago.

Steve B.