Text extracted from a PDF can hold C0 control characters (fonts without
a usable /ToUnicode), which XML forbids, and Word refuses the whole
document over one ("Word experienced an error trying to open the
file"). The Word, HTML and RTF writers now drop the characters XML
forbids. Also:
- the page size stays within Word's 22 in (a till receipt is taller,
and Word read it as a negative height), and margins shrink on small
pages so text keeps room; images fit the real text width;
- a non-finite font size falls back to 12 pt;
- zip entries get a valid DOS date (1980-01-01) instead of zero.
Checked by opening the exports in Microsoft Word: control characters,
U+FFFE/U+FFFF, a 33 in receipt with a 40-row table, narrow, tiny and
wide pages all open.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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