Copy and Paste from PDF to Command Prompt

Hi,
When I convert a Word doc to PDF, that includes instructions to the user to cut and paste commands from the doc into the command prompt window, the pasted text is rejected by the command prompt window.
I recently upgraded to the Adobe Technical Communication suite. Prior to this I was using Word's native convert to PDF plugin. None of the text in PDFs generated by this method causes any issue. I remade the PDF using this method after the previous one made with Acrobat caused issues and it worked fine.
I would like to continue using Acrobat because the auto-generated bookmarks are a nice feature for the end-user.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Donal

Hi Donal,
This forum is 3D issue specific. Your quesrtion would be better handled on the Acrobat User-toUser forum. There are many brilliant folks there who might be able to answer your very quickly.

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