🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello, please allow me to ask this question to this group. Its an ID question not a scripting question. I've posted it in the main ID group and have not gotten any response. I'd like to learn if this is a common problem or unique to my workflow.

I'm having problems where I can not copy text from a linked in PDF once I export it from ID. I create some PDF's in Excel via Distiller, from those files base files I can select and copy the text easily. But as soon as I link it into ID and do a PDF Export, the resulting ID PDF allows me to select the text but what I get when I paste it is a bunch of down arrows in Windows.

I do not have any security settings set on the PDF's and the only difference between the original PDF and the ID PDF is that ID converts the type 1 fonts to composite fonts. (Also of note, if I print the file to a postscript file and then distill it I can select and copy the text fine.)

After further research I've found that I can select text from some of the pages if I convert them to EPS files in Illustrator rather than PDF's, but that only works for some files.

Has anyone experienced this or know of a solution. At this time about the only option I can think of is to do away with the whole PDF Export option and print everything to a file, but the downside of this is I would not have the wonderful ID bookmarks... (But I'm sure if this is the only option I can script the bookmark process.)
Thank you,
iolaire