XP, Adobe Reader 9.0.0. This has been an issue in other versions. When I paste to Notepad or Excel, two or more consecutive spaces (blanks) are converted to a single blank. Please tell me there's an option for this.
For example, there is a difference between
(X followed by 1 space and another X)
and
(X followed by 7 spaces and another X).
[Forum pages generally illustrate this badly so I'm just manually describing them.]
Due to what I presume is the compression of consecutive blanks, it's copy/pasting each as
X X (X followed by 1 space and another X)
so I can't identify that if refers to, e.g., vendor 1 and vendor 5, or vendor 1 and vendor 2.
(Assume there are 5 column headings: Vendors 1,2,3,4,5. On the first case above, the .PDF shows an X under vendors 1 and 2. In the 2nd case above, the .PDF shows an X under vendors 1 and 5. But when I scrape, copy and paste both records, the first case looks fine, but the second case looks exactly like the first case.)
Probably significant: There are tons and tons of whitespace on the .PDF. However, Control-F can't find a single "blank" at all. The source consists of (in a fixed width font like Courier New) fixed width lines of data with tons of whitespace. Also, in case it suggests anything, it comes from an iSeries (IBM) "print queue file" of 132 column records.
Understand that I read everything else perfectly - except consecutive spaces. It's clearly seen in Notepad. It can find "blank" but not "blank-blank." And your featured user here is growling "blankety-blank."