I'm struggling with having symbols in my PDF output in such a way that they can be selected. Particularly, I want to use the right-arrow symbol, unicode 2192. What I have tried so far:
- Made sure to use Arial throughout because I would assume that if there is any font that should not create any problems, it is this one.
- Made sure there are no other symbols that might be missing, i.e., I replaced the right-arrow unicode symbol temporarily by "->" and published the PDF - in that case, I was able to select the text, so there is definitely no other symbols creating a problem.
- In the Font Embedding options for PDF publishing, Font Mode is set to "Embed TrueType fonts", no fonts are excluded, and I have unticked "Export Symbol text as glyphs" as well as unticked "Export all text as glyphs".
- Inserting the unicode symbol either directly through the Symbol menu in Help & Manual or by Copy & Paste from the Windows character map.
- After having replaced all the unicode symbol arrows by "->", I can select the text in the PDF
- Then, after just inserting the right-arrow unicode symbol right before the "->", I can still select the text, including the unicode symbol
- Then, after just deleting the "->", I can NOT select the right-arrow unicode symbol in the PDF anymore (though I can select the directly preceding and subsequent text)
I really don't understand this behavior and would appreciate if anyone could enlighten me about this. Surely, it must be possible somehow to include unicode symbols that are present in the used font in such a way that they can be selected in the PDF.