PDF question, those bothersome extra spaces., OR How search doesn't always work. Options

[blakkie]

I just noticed, those funky spaces that show up when you copy/paste from the PDF into, for example, a post here? Well they really are in the document, even though you can't see them.

I knew that the shapeshifters were mentioned in the Wolf Section (page 291), and i didn't remember them being anywhere else. However i wanted to check elsewhere for them. So i did a Search, nothing. WTF?? So i do a Find, still nothing. Then i get the inspiration, what if it has one of those funky spaces in it and that is screwing with the Search? Copy-Paste and yet, between the t and the e.

Turns out that there are actually three places where there is "shapeshifter" in the book, and they all have that same space at that position in the word.

So all you PDF pros out there, any idea where this is coming from? Is this an import issue, or was this possibly something that the original authoring software did. Either possibly for some odd typesetting reason? What are the possible feasible workarounds, if any, that i can use? Is this going to be consistant, whereever there is an "te" in a word there will be a space? Will there be some way for Fanpro/Adam to change this that doesn't involve copy and paste of the entire text into another program and proof reading it there?