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Re: Adobe Reader 9 Find Function Finds Nothing

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From: John middlenameAnthony LaPietra
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:14
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I have the same problem -- but I don't have MSWord. I have WordPerfect (v12). I can look at a PDF file that I created using WordPerfect, and Reader still won't Find words or phrases in text I can see, text I know is in there because I put it there. (Not that the problem is limited to PDF files from WordPerfect -- or to the Find command. The more global Search command also fails to bring up the desired text. Even Windows Explorer can find the text in these PDF files -- and it seems to refuse to do that for the WordPerfect files themselves. So why can't Reader?)

I can copy and paste PDF-file text (when there is text) into WordPerfect; there, it comes up with a lot of unnecessary font and size commands, but shows up as indicated. I can likewise import the text into NotePad or WordPad, with no visible problems.

So what do we *do* about this? Is it something wrong with Reader v9, or some parameter we can set in Reader to recognize fonts better, or what?
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