Problems with Acrobat Reader/Pro & Preview Corrupting Text on Copy/Paste

[GLOC]

I have a problem which I am not sure where it sits, so I am posting here and also the Adobe support forums as I think it might be deeper than just Reader/Pro.

I do a fair amount of research and download plenty of research papers. One such paper (Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine - DHM) from the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUM) is causing me a major problem with copying and pasting text from it; no-one else who I have spoken to has the same problem.

The issue is that when I copy and paste text from the article I end up with the following

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The further development of medical support for professional diving
David Elliott
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and when I copy and paste the same from Preview, I get

The further development of medical support for professional diving David Elliott

Any ideas what might be causing this issue? I have tried uninstalling Pro and Reader and have downloaded the latest version of Reader from the Adobe site and the issue still remains.

Thanks very much for any help you can give me

Regards

 

[Amazing Iceman]

It seems like a document version incompatibility. I don't believe Preview supports the very latest version of the PDF format.
If you have the original document, open a copy in Acrobat and export it in an older version of PDF. Then try again...

Or the document may be locked against Copy/Paste.

I have a problem which I am not sure where it sits, so I am posting here and also the Adobe support forums as I think it might be deeper than just Reader/Pro.

I do a fair amount of research and download plenty of research papers. One such paper (Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine - DHM) from the South Pacific Underwater Medicine Society (SPUM) is causing me a major problem with copying and pasting text from it; no-one else who I have spoken to has the same problem.

The issue is that when I copy and paste text from the article I end up with the following


and when I copy and paste the same from Preview, I get


Any ideas what might be causing this issue? I have tried uninstalling Pro and Reader and have downloaded the latest version of Reader from the Adobe site and the issue still remains.

Thanks very much for any help you can give me

Regards

 

[GLOC]

It seems like a document version incompatibility. I don't believe Preview supports the very latest version of the PDF format.
If you have the original document, open a copy in Acrobat and export it in an older version of PDF. Then try again...

Or the document may be locked against Copy/Paste.

AI,

Thanks for the prompt post.

I will need to reinstall Acrobat and see if that works, but I found this thread http://forums.adobe.com/message/3978401 which says it probably has something to do with the document creation. I find this a little weird as other people can copy and paste from the same document.

I have had a look and content copy and page extraction are both allowed so security isn't an issue .

Acrobat Distiller 8.1.0 (Windows) was used to create the file and is a PDF Version 1.4 (Adobe 5.x)

I am on Lion 10.7.2

Regards