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    From Pat@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 15 15:03:51 2022
    Yesterday, I sent out a email to a mailing list that had a PDF file
    attached. (It was the minutes of a condo board meeting.) One of the recipients said the pdf was all messed up when she read it but it
    looked fine on my PC and my iPad. I experimented enough to figure out
    that on her iPhone, all occurances of a bold capital N in my PDF were
    being displayed as a capital I with a dot under it followed by a
    space. As an example, the header "FINANCIALS" was displayed as "FII AI
    CIALS" where the I's had a dot under them. No other letters were
    affected. The then tried my own iPhone and saw that it had the same
    problem. I had used an old program called WIN2PDF to create the pdf
    file. It installs as a printer in Windows 11. When you print to it,
    it instead creates a pdf file. I guessed it might be at fault and
    upgraded from my very old 2008 version to the latest, but the problem
    was still there. My phone had the latest version of iOS on it as of
    last week, but I noticed that 16.2 was now available so I installed
    it. It fixed the problem! After a lot of searching online, I have
    been unable to find what they fixed that would have affected the
    display of only bold capital N's in PDF files. I did find there
    really is a unicode character called "Latin Capital letter I with dot
    below", but not its intended use.

    Any ideas? I'm just curious.
    Pat

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Pat on Fri Dec 16 16:02:13 2022
    On 2022-12-15 20:03:51 +0000, Pat said:

    Yesterday, I sent out a email to a mailing list that had a PDF file
    attached. (It was the minutes of a condo board meeting.) One of the recipients said the pdf was all messed up when she read it but it
    looked fine on my PC and my iPad. I experimented enough to figure out
    that on her iPhone, all occurances of a bold capital N in my PDF were
    being displayed as a capital I with a dot under it followed by a
    space. As an example, the header "FINANCIALS" was displayed as "FII AI
    CIALS" where the I's had a dot under them. No other letters were
    affected. The then tried my own iPhone and saw that it had the same
    problem. I had used an old program called WIN2PDF to create the pdf
    file. It installs as a printer in Windows 11. When you print to it,
    it instead creates a pdf file. I guessed it might be at fault and
    upgraded from my very old 2008 version to the latest, but the problem
    was still there. My phone had the latest version of iOS on it as of
    last week, but I noticed that 16.2 was now available so I installed
    it. It fixed the problem! After a lot of searching online, I have
    been unable to find what they fixed that would have affected the
    display of only bold capital N's in PDF files. I did find there
    really is a unicode character called "Latin Capital letter I with dot
    below", but not its intended use.

    Any ideas? I'm just curious.
    Pat

    Obviously some sort of font corruption or font matching issue causing a
    hiccup the older reader. The N character must be being mis-interpreted.
    The easiest option could be to simply use a different font next time.

    Fairly often I'll download a recipe PDF from a website for my mother
    and all the "fl" characters come out as some strange single character
    ... which makes reading things like "flour" rather difficult if I don't
    spot it and fix it first. :-\

    Despite what many people like to claim, including Adobe themselves, PDF
    is not the be-all and end-all of document consistency. Different OSes (including different versions), different creation apps, and different
    readers can have all sorts of quirky issues displaying PDFs. Printing
    the PDF can also add more issues.

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  • From sms@21:1/5 to Pat on Fri Dec 16 09:22:03 2022
    On 12/15/2022 12:03 PM, Pat wrote:
    Yesterday, I sent out a email to a mailing list that had a PDF file
    attached. (It was the minutes of a condo board meeting.) One of the recipients said the pdf was all messed up when she read it but it
    looked fine on my PC and my iPad. I experimented enough to figure out
    that on her iPhone, all occurances of a bold capital N in my PDF were
    being displayed as a capital I with a dot under it followed by a
    space. As an example, the header "FINANCIALS" was displayed as "FII AI
    CIALS" where the I's had a dot under them. No other letters were
    affected. The then tried my own iPhone and saw that it had the same
    problem. I had used an old program called WIN2PDF to create the pdf
    file. It installs as a printer in Windows 11. When you print to it,
    it instead creates a pdf file. I guessed it might be at fault and
    upgraded from my very old 2008 version to the latest, but the problem
    was still there. My phone had the latest version of iOS on it as of
    last week, but I noticed that 16.2 was now available so I installed
    it. It fixed the problem! After a lot of searching online, I have
    been unable to find what they fixed that would have affected the
    display of only bold capital N's in PDF files. I did find there
    really is a unicode character called "Latin Capital letter I with dot
    below", but not its intended use.

    Any ideas? I'm just curious.
    Pat

    It's almost certainly a font issue. Not sure what program you used to
    create the PDF but there are options to embed fonts with the PDF so you
    don't run into this.

    You might want to consider using Google Docs instead, and just e-mailing
    a link to the shared document (view only). It's a lot nicer to have all
    those documents available in Google Docs than having to go through a
    bunch of PDFs in e-mail. Put the CC&R, the budget, and the insurance declaration page up there too! I was the president of an HOA for many
    years, even after I moved out and rented my townhouse, because no one
    else was willing to do it. I think that it would be a lot easier now,
    with Zoom, Google Docs, etc..

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