In message <gemini.j7sdx1001f18600ak.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ray Dawson
<ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
I've seen files where this facility just returns junk (and so does
GhostScript) - any ideas why this happens?
Because the page has been imported as a graphic?
I've had this a couple of times, for that reason.
I don't think so. For one thing it is possible to select text at the
character level, secondly text is saved - I guess Adobe would be smart
enough to not save out a graphic as text anyway. The PDF is also not
encrypted or security protected.
One idea is that the document has been prepared using a font with a
strange encoding and the encoding has not been put into the PDF.
Or maybe it is using a range of Unicode which standard fonts do not
support.
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