LyXWerid characters if I copy from the generated PDF

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xyl9
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Werid characters if I copy from the generated PDF

Post by xyl9 »

Hey,

my lyx software does really weird things.

If I open a new document, write hello and view the PDF, it shows a PDF with "hello". But if I copy that "Hello" from the PDF to some other software now, I get "❍❡❧❧♦". Do you have any idea what the reason for that could be?

I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and it's standard PDF viewer. Since I don't have that problem when I open other PDF's I assume it is a problem with/in lyx.

Thanks for any help (ans sorry for any mistakes, English is not my native language.

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Stefan Kottwitz
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Werid characters if I copy from the generated PDF

Post by Stefan Kottwitz »

Welcome to the forum!

You could try to use a different font. And you could use a different PDF reader to compare. Finally, to verify, you could post a Infominimal working example, which demonstrates the issue, together with the PDF file as attachment, so we could verify this issue.

Stefan
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