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Old 05-04-2009, 05:27 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by Ankh View Post
Well, it is hard to say based on a single word, but those "extra spaces" might easily turn out to be "soft hyphen" characters. Soft hyphens are indication to the reading/printing software where it is acceptable to break a word if it is at the end of line. Most likely cut&paste "filtered" out those codes and gave you spaces.
That was my first thought, too. But we had someone look at the internals of the PDF, and they found actual space characters, with a text block backed up on top of them, overwriting the spaces. Wish I could have seen the file that the PDF was created from!

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