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I edit a genre fiction and we do all our layout in XeTeX. I picked it because it's the right tool for the job, and I don't know PageMaker. The colophon calls attention to it because I think it's helpful to tell others how you made something (typefaces, tools, etc.) rather than for nerd cred.

https://www.aliterate.org/aliterate-page47.pdf

The typefaces are Minion and Myriad.

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When I copy text from your PDF it comes out all garbled. Does this happen to others as well? Is it intentional; some form of copy protection?

Huh, totally weird. Maybe it's an encoding issue? The character appear to be getting shifted by -39 (ex. c 143 ->D 104) I never noticed because I'm typesetting for print.

I think you need to use some PDF package to have the encoding set correctly. I had the same issue in the past, but I don't remember how I solved it.

Don't know about the parent's intentions, but making the PDF from LaTeX copy-able is mostly a matter of putting this in the preamble.

    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

Since you said you were editing this: Is "horribly familiar horribly familiar" a double typo?

I enjoyed that snippet, what is it from?

PageMaker has been dead software for like 10 years now, fwiw. InDesign is the modern replacement.

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