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Nov 7, 2011 - Apr 2, 2019 - Jan 15, 2013 -Some imported PDF documents may return garbled text when you view them in When you see unreadable gibberish symbols like shown in the screenshot as a protection mechanism to prevent the reader to "copy & paste" the text data. I get weird characters pasted after copying text from PDF file. I have had a look at the fonts table and they are either 'Custom' (Type 1) or 'Identity-H' (Type 1 When I copy and paste text from PDF file I exported from Affinity Perhaps there are ligatures or other complexe characters in your PDF, or special spaces, etc. I do not know internals of PDF encoding, but this kind of makes Aug 14, 2012 - If the fonts of PDF don't have Unicode tables and do not use standard encoding for mapping the glyph indices to characters then you get garbage characters during copy/paste. Also, there is a possibility the fonts used to create the PDF file are not available on your system. Aug 23, 2019 -