Quotation marks mess up letter formatting in PDF conversion
Please consider either adding error handling for the description fields for donations and grant suggestions in the portals to prevent special characters, or adjust the PDF conversion software on the back end to better handle special characters. If the Word template has conditional formatting and any text with quotation marks comes through, Word processes it properly, but the PDF conversion removes or changes the text. This results in incorrect instructions and other text fields being sent in PDF lettters. To be clear, it is correct in the Word documents and in the Donor portal, but the PDFs that actually go out to grantees/customers are incorrect.
Currently, if a customer enters a description in the portal and they enter text with a double quote("), the Word templates, such as the check letter, that use conditional formatting will work fine. The PDF documents that generate from the word conditional formatting completely mess up the description. This causes letter recipients(the Grant Check letter for instance) to get letters and other documentation in PDF format that have incorrect grant restrictions, special instructions, or other text.
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Gregg Oosterbaan
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