Acrobat renders embedded text unsearchable by spreading out letters: why?

Something strange happened today when I created a single PDF page of a magazine and inserted it into the larger PDF of the entire magazine: all the letters in the words embedded in the single PDF page were automatically spread out, so this caption, in the single PDF page:
the commodore just faintly heard the words
HE WAS NOT MEANT TO HEAR”
appeared this way, on that same page within the larger PDF document:
t h e c o m m o d o r e j u s t f a i n t l y h e a r d t h e w o r d s
HE WA S NOT ME A N T TO H E A R ”
with white space inserted between most of the letters. This change effectively renders the text unsearchable, since no one is going to insert a space between letters when searching for words in the pdf.
Does anyone know why this happens? And is there any way of preventing it?  If it helps, this spreading out of letters seems to happen more often in headers and captions than in columns of text.  Thanks!

Not sure, but were the fonts embedded. It looks like a font issue. You might also try scrolling through the text to see if the spaces are really there.

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