Why is copy missing from PDF?

I have PDFs with copy missing when I open them. I am running Macbook with OSx 10.6.7 and Adobe 10.0.2

It could be an embedded fonts problem. It could be due to a bug in OS X.6.7 that doesn't handle certain postscript flavored Open type fonts properly.

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I think I may have confused you a little bit, sorry. Hope this might be easier to follow.
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Rishi,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
After reading your post, I tried to duplicate this problem. I opened a PDF, selected a sentence, then copied it to the clipboard. I then opened Pages, selected the blank template, then pasted in the text. It pasted perfectly.
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Hi ryguy72,
>>When I have PDF files and Word files, the contents of the Word files are copied in fine, but the contents of the PDF files seem to come in as Chinese, and there is no Chinese in the PDF, so I have no idea where that’s coming from.<<
Based on the code, you were insert the file via the code Selection.InsertFile. I am trying to reproduce this issue however failed. I suggest that you insert the PDF file manually to see whether this issue relative to the specific file. You can insert PDF
file via Insert->Text->Object->Text from file.
If this issue also could reproduced manually, I would suggest that you reopen a new thread in forum to narrow down whether this issue relative to the specific PDF file or Word application.
>> I want to extract all embedded files (in all my Word files) and save the extracted/opened file into the folder. Some embedded files are PDFs and some are Excel files.<<
We can save the embedded spreadsheet via Excel object model. Here is an example that check the whether the inlineshape is an embedded workbook and save it to the disk for you reference:
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Hello,
I'm new to this boards so, if topics like this were brought up I'm sorry and be glad, if someone can redirect me to it.
I've also searched for solution throu google and did not find anything that would fix this so I came here as my last option
I have recived a PDF document from a company about pad printing. I'd like to copy some text from this PDF to Illustrator/Word so I could edit some things. I could retype all but document has over 55 pages and I'm leaning thowards easyer solutions than retyping everything.
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Sorry for my bad english.

I don't know why you wanna use rapidshare for reference, would you know there were many problem about them? Actually I hate rapidshare.
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