Recent content by chris.pearson

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    Acrobat Reader DC: Strange behaviour when searching for left or right paren

    Thanks. I've also raised this question in the Adobe Forum, but got no response at all. Looks like living with it is the only option for the foreseeable future.
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    Acrobat Reader DC: Strange behaviour when searching for left or right paren

    Thanks for clarifying that. The links provide some useful background. That explains why this behaviour stops when the sidebar is hidden (allowing the visible document to be wider and the font to be larger). And there's a similar behaviour for other hard-to-see characters such as ' (single...
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    Acrobat Reader DC: Strange behaviour when searching for left or right paren

    Thanks for providing some explanation of what's going on However, I've looked at the text very closely and I can see no unmatched parens within the box. If there are any, they must be deeper into the document. Is there a way to switch off this unhelpful facility?
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    Acrobat Reader DC: Strange behaviour when searching for left or right paren

    In Acrobat Reader DC 2019.008.20074, under Windows 10, when I search for ")" (left paren), it finds the next occurrence and highiights it, but it also places a blue rectangle around a larger area of the text (containing the left paren). When I move the mouse pointer into the rectangle, it...