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Wow. What a month.

COVID-19 has changed so much and parts of the world seem absolutely frozen right now.

But, things will return to "normal".  Normal always changes.  What was normal when I was 20, is not what is normal now. My whole work world flipped upside down, but we are getting things done. I am fortunate that my freelancing made my home office very adaptable to my primary occupation, but that is not necessarily the case for many. We are all learning to adapt.

The need to continuously learn is really the only constant in my life.  So, if I can help you with a project, or learn something new, let me know.  Hang in there.

Long links and other issues in Adobe

Continuing to push my way through several PDFs that need remediation. Today's lessons:

What do you do when a long link breaks across two lines and now the hyperlink is doubled (and tripping a warning because of the duplication)?

Well, you work through each duplication, copying the links as you go. Then edit the link, delete them and edit the PDF by drawing an invisible link box over the two lines. Add back the link info and now all of the text will launch the desired web content.

What to do with the character encoding issue?

In this instance you really want to have the source document, because this means the PDF was made with the wrong fonts embedded.  I have most often found this with logos, but it can happen with bullets, checkboxes etc.  Often you can copy the graphic and place as an image (and then tag as an artifact) but sometimes you just have to recreate the PDF from scratch.