Odd characters from text extraction

[Ian Smith <Ia...@gossinteractive.com>]

Hi Folks,

I have linked to a PDF (~2MB) that produces unprintable characters in
the extracted text output.  These characters seem to be associated with
the first two pages of the document.

http://www.yourphp.org.uk/media/pdf/g/4/Annual_Report_0809.pdf

I believe the problem is caused by at least one of the embedded fonts in
the document; my debugging has shown that the strange characters are
associated with Identity-H encoding and/or Type 1 (CID) fonts and (only
perhaps) also the Mistral Font (KWTOGC+Mistral?).  Fonts that display
correctly seem to be associated with the WinAnsi encoding.

I have not been able to debug further owing to the large number of
deeply nested PDF objects (I don't really know anything about PDF!).
Hope this is the right place to report this, if not then please let me
know.

Regards,

Ian Smith.



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