PDF text garbled

Hello,
I'm trying to find an answer as to why pdf files generated
from Freehand (via Adobe PDF printer driver) don't include text
that can be copied/exported etc.
The text is visible, and can be selected normally in Acrobat
with the select text tool. However, cut-and-paste copied text into
any other program doesn't work -- the text is no longer normally
encoded "text" -- but (at least on Win XP Pro) garbled symbols,
lines and returns.
I've tried both with True Type and Type 1 fonts, but same
result.
Of course, then things like email addresses within text
aren't automatically hyperlinked either (as they are from Word,
Ilustrator, InDesign etc) -- hyperlinks all have to set that up
manually in Acrobat.
In one way, this is kind of "cool" and makes the file
"encrypted" from copying by others without any security settings --
but is no good for PDF searching/indexing.
In the PDF font properties, all of the fonts get custome
encoded as an embedded subset, with "Gen_" (occasionally "Gen.") at
the start of the font name.
I've tried in Acrobat Print driver to both have "do not send
fonts to Adobe PDF" selected and unselected, but with same result.
Print Driver doesn't show any version number in its properties, I'm
guessing though it is okay as files from other programs don't have
this problem.
OS: Win XP Pro SP2. FH MXa. Acrobat 7.0.8 Pro. I've tried
googling for results, but nothing specific comes up. Some
discussion on "Gen_" named fonts, but no fix.
This problem has been around for many years, but now is
something I'd prefer to resolve as many pdf files I'm creating are
ending up online and need to be indexed and searchable. I've been
using FH since v5.5, but cannot remember in earlier days if this
was an issue!
I can post screenshots or example online if required.
Any solutions most welcome.

> I'm trying to find an answer as to why pdf files
generated from Freehand (via
> Adobe PDF printer driver) don't include text that can be
copied/exported etc.
>
> The text is visible, and can be selected normally in
Acrobat with the select
> text tool. However, cut-and-paste copied text into any
other program doesn't
> work -- the text is no longer normally encoded "text" --
but (at least on Win
> XP Pro) garbled symbols, lines and returns.
> OS: Win XP Pro SP2. FH MXa. Acrobat 7.0.8 Pro. I've
tried googling for
> results, but nothing specific comes up. Some discussion
on "Gen_" named fonts,
> but no fix.
>
> This problem has been around for many years, but now is
something I'd prefer
> to resolve as many pdf files I'm creating are ending up
online and need to be
> indexed and searchable. I've been using FH since v5.5,
but cannot remember in
> earlier days if this was an issue!
I've made pdf files using Acrobat about from version 7 or 8
(?) As memory serves the Gen-font problem has always been there.
This has also caused problems in eps export.
There has probaly been some remotely sane reason for changing
encoding and renaming fonts on print. I just can't figure out what
it may be. At least it is hard to extract the fonts from the print
file.
Hopefully Adobe will fix this as well as pdf export.
Jukka

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