of a PDF document opened in Adobe Reader, showing what you could confront.

I first became aware of this issue while surfing Apple's Discussions boards (). I mentioned it in the . In the interim, this bug has been covered on several other Websites, most notably (which has a good discussion of the origin of the bug).

While a small minority of Mac users will trip over this bug and understandably be annoyed, most of us will go about our business blissfully unaware of the bug's existence. Here's why:

In general, before you can be affected by this bug, you have to use one of a subset of fonts (OpenType PostScript), work with certain types of files (mainly PDFs), and use specific applications (such as Adobe Reader). That's why I say that many users will never confront this symptom.