Comments on: List of Hidden Characters (“What is that weird character in my text?”)

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:53:04 +0000

@mario: No, I don’t think there is any way to display those in the PDF. You could take a screen capture picture, but that is not the same, of course.

By: mario

mario — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:07:33 +0000

Is it possible to print or make pdf with hidden characters (I want to show this characters) from a document?

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:39:23 +0000

@Mayoor: The color of the invisible characters reflects what layer the object is on (like the color of the frame edge).

@Thor: Um… wow… I have no idea. Perhaps our system doesn’t allow whatever you pasted in? I suggest people leave questions like this in the forums, rather than in blog post comments.

By: thor

thor — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:32:09 +0000

what abut things like this.

u????????????p???????l????????????????????????????????????d?????????i???????????n?????g???????????????? ??????????t???????h???????????????????????s????????????
what is this?

By: Mayoor

Mayoor — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:35:12 +0000

I recently encountered a weird problem while placing text from a word document in an Indesign document. On one of the pages, the paragraph return mark (hidden character) is of a red color, instead of the customary blue color. Also, this problem is limited to a single page only, whereas, on the pages before & after this page the paragraph return is blue in color. Does this signify some problem or can it be safely ignored

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:53:55 +0000

@Andrew: I assume you mean something other than question marks… perhaps the characters did not come in properly? You may need to make a screen capture and post it to one of the image sharing sites and link to it here so we can see it.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:35:10 +0000

Has anybody seen symbols like this before?

?????????????

What are they and what do they mean?

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:34:13 +0000

You know, I've heard of things going wrong like that, but it's unclear what is happening. Rebuilding your preferences may clear it up.

By: Katy

Katy — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:03:21 +0000

I migrated from CS3 to CS4 yesterday. I always have the hidden characters showing. Yesterday I saw the normal paragraph symbols, etc. Today I am seeing lines for the paragraph symbol and a strange “z” with a dot on top instead of a soft return. I want to go back to seeing the original symbols. How do I fix this?

By: Carol F. Metzger

Carol F. Metzger — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:28:43 +0000

It worked! I love you.

(I think we knew each other on the Adobe Forum decades ago). I was Carol F Mason then.