Invisible characters left behind after applying imported PDF comments
Description:
When importing PDF comments into InDesign and applying text corrections, unwanted invisible characters are frequently left behind in the text flow.
These hidden characters cause significant disruptions in our typesetting and scripting workflows:
Find/Change Failures: Because these characters are invisible, they break text strings without the user noticing. This causes standard text and GREP Find/Change queries to fail and return no results for seemingly identical text.
Sorting Script Errors: When using scripts to sort paragraphs alphabetically, if one of these invisible characters ends up at the beginning of a paragraph, the sorting algorithm misinterprets it. This usually results in the affected paragraph being incorrectly pushed to the very end of the sorted list.
Expected Behavior:
Applying imported PDF text edits should only insert the intended characters and should not leave behind invisible artifacts that break text processing.
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