Corrupt fonts from .pdf to Illustrator

How do I open a .pdf in Illustrator without corrupting the fonts? Sometimes the fonts get corrupted, sometimes they don't. I'd like to know how to fix this issue without having to copy and paste the text from the .pdf into Illustrator and re-format it. That takes forever and ever.

Open the PDF in Acrobat and from File>Properties what is given on the Font Tab as here

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When I print to PDF on Mac OS 10.6.8 by default embed fonts to PDF-file. It add unnecessary bites to PDF-file (the file is huge size).
How to remove this option of fonts embedding? Or how remove embedded font from PDF file?

After opening dozens and dozens of linked files,I finally found the offending "empty line of text" in one of the AI files I placed in the INDD file. Open > Select All.... then check the font panel. With mixed fonts, it was empty, but if everything was the correct font, it was filled in. It was just one AI file.
I want to thank you all for your great ideas and for sharing your experience. Onward, now.

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I believe the issue here is more Microsoft or ESRI's handling of fonts and fontnames and realise the Adobe way of handling all this seems much better at this type of thing but maybe some will be able to shed some light here if I don't get anything here I'll try the Illy forum for removing the faux-italic from Garamond Bold Italic once it's in Illustrator. Or should that now be Garamond Bold Italic Oblique. ;)
We are having some issues with getting correct fonts from ESRI's ArcMap. I believe a lot of the code of Arc is based on Microsoft code and it handles font selection in the Microsoft office (as oposed to Adobe) stylebuttons for bold and italic and seperate font entries for say light and bold. To get a semi bold (if in the font) you either select light and the bold button or the regular and the bold button.
PDF availible for anyone interested of the fonts onscreen appearance in ArcMap (Screenshots) and in Illustrator after after export to Ai from ArcMap. Font windows (screenshots) for these fonts in both applications are shown.
If we open up a fresh instance of Illustrator the typeface appear correctly on screen and in the font window.
If we the open FontTest.ai (an old version of Ai8 I believe) generated by ArcMap each font of the typeface appears on a separate line in the font chooser with the weight (and italic if italic) in both the typeface (top) and the font (bottom) panel of the Illustrator font window.
If we then close the document and create a new Illustrator document the fonts are still viewing incorrectly as above in the Illustrator font window.
If we close and open a new instance of Illustrator the fonts are back to normal.
Now the interesting bit. If we save the file FontTest.ai as a cs3 version and open this in our fresh instance of Illustrator the fonts are back to how they should be. Problem fixed except the faux-italic on the bold italic is still applied.
I decided to test in OpenOffice but that caused more (worse) problems. Will test in Word when I get to work.

Without having the originating font installed on your system, I don't think there is any way to do what you want in Illustrator. If the pdf fonts were outlined, it would be no trouble. But in order to edit the pdf in Illustrator, and save it back out to pdf again, you will need the fonts.

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I've got an unusual problem with a supplied PDF File that uses fonts I don't have.
Normally I'd place the PDF into Illustrator and use 'Flatten Transparency' with the 'Convert Fonts To Outlines' option to create vectors for the missing fonts. However this particular PDF file seems to have been saved with the 'Preserve Illustrator Editing' setting, so when I place it into Illustrator the illustrator data is read and I get live artwork - with the fonts replaced - instead of something I can work with, meaning that I can't replicate the type I need.
I've tried importing the PDF into inDesign and resaving as a new PDF - but Illustrator is not fooled by this clumsy and desparate ruse, and again treats the file as editable artwork with the missing fonts replaced.
How can I force Illustrator to ignore the editable capabilities of the file and just convert the fonts to outlines?
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K

Thats quite garbled - but I think I've decoded your spasmodic keyboard mashing:
evershowed = ever showed?
fesature = feature?
red = read?
whn = when?
throough = through?
questi = question?
effeciently = efficiently?
remarksjust = remarks just?
becaued = because?
injesting = suggesting? injecting? requesting??
Now who looks 'lazy'? How old are you? I'm guessing that you are a child or a teenager?
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I'm crushed. Inconsolable. I expect you'll probably have to look that last word up.
Wade_Zimmerman said: And if you wish tutorials on typing I suggest doing a search on google.
I know how to type and can spell reasonably well too - what's your excuse for sounding like a rude, idiotic, uneducated child? By the way, 'Google' is a special word - it is what's known as a proper noun - so it gets a big 'g' at the start. Cool eh?

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PDF was never meant for editing.
Have you tried the same - opening the PDF in Illustrator?

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I am hoping that someone can help with this issue that I am having. I have been using Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro for most of the year without any issues until recently. When I have been creating PDF from Internet Explorer 9, some of the text in the PDF is correupted, while other text is not. It displays properly in the "Print Preview", but after the PDF is created it is messed up. It does this on both the 64 and 32 Bit IE9. I am running Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit as an O/S. Any idea as to why this is doing it, but more importantly how to fix it? I have tried to unistall and reinstall the software, but that didn't fix the problem. Please help!
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If you use ctrl-D>Fonts you can see if the fonts are embedded and if the original font or a substitute is being used. I would guess that the fonts are not embedded and that is your problem. So, to help you trace the problem give the version no. of IE, the sub-version of Acrobat (like 9.4.5) and how you are creating the PDF (like printing to the Adobe PDF printer). For the creation, what job settings are you using. Standard is the default, but you might want to try the press or print options.

Plz hlp...cannot copy and paste embedded font from pdf..critical!

Hello,
I'm desperate,
Probably because I don't know how to ask or to search
But believe me; I spent long time trying to find an answer for the problem.
I believe, my problem is known; I need to copy text from unsecured PDF acrobat file, to MS WORD, but its scrambled text,
This is very important project and I need to copy plenty of text from the acrobat files. What can I do??????
if it impossable what it's mean?
If u do want to avoid the big vrother all you nee to do is to embed the text to PDF and no body could understad it, google it????
I belive it must be a solution, a convertor or anything...
I tried to download The professional acrobat, PDF NITRO
every soft available to be able to copy the text or to convert it into normal ASCII, Unicode...whatever...
I just need the text not the font or the graphic...
plz help its important....
thanks alot !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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gaurav sinha wrote:
go to adobe.com under support click on knowledgebase and type in 328376 and follow the steps hope it will resolve your issue
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I create the quarterly PDF of Hinduism Today magazine, on Macs, in InDesign, individual articles are exported to PDF as spreads and assembled in Acrobat to produce a single PDF of the entire magazine: nothing new there...
Now, my final PDF is showing a "rogue" copy of a font we tinkered with ourselves "
"RelatoD,Bold" as TrueType, but not embedded;
we have others "RelatoD-Bold" all of which are embedded
If I open all the source PDF (individual articles) all versions of RelatoD-Bold appear as embedded and I cannot spot the document containing "RelatoD,Bold"
My outside shop Mac beta testers say the PDF works perfectly. Acrobat reader on Mac is forgiving. I don't think the font is even in use. But Windows users are getting an ugly font cannot be found or created message. If they dismiss that dialog, the PDF opens and appears fine. There is not a single instance of the "rogue" font showing any visible change in the PDF document.
Obviously I need to track this down, but our production schedule is running behind. Is there way I can simply "zap" delete the rogue font in Acrobat Professional? In the PDF? I don't think we will see a single problem in the document. This seems to be some kind of font "artifact/gremlin" that was introduced, but we don't know how, or from where... and the R & D to track it down is going be "painful" and time consuming.

Larry, excellent, thanks for reminding me of that option. We have done that before when the document starts to show signs of "wierdness" and looks like it is about to explode (smile) export .inx and rebuild before you lose it completely.
The challenge will be : which document from all the articles carries the rogue font? I have no way to analyze it.
hmm. I guess I could boot Parallels and then open each individual PDF (made from individual articles) until I found it.
Meanwhile, I was overly jubilant yesterday. After I ran the PDF thru PDF optimizer, looking at Document Properties I did not see the roque font, I thought Ah ha! Solved! I then pushed an update to our web server, sent the URL to Windows beta test group and by the afternoon they were telling me the PDF *still* threw the warning dialog about missing font.
At our staff meeting (we are mac fanatics here) we thought not a big deal, in the Windows world users are faced with nasty dialogs all the time, I won't have time to go solve this before we go live. Our only regret is being unable to program the dialog box to say "Sorry cannot find or create RelatoD-Bold. It works on Apple. Get a Mac!"

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I can only boot my iMac in Safe Mode because of Kernel panics. They started right after I began using (though it was downloaded and installed weeks ago) a free font so now I'm trying to get rid of it. Problem is, safe mode only loads w/ about two dozen normal fonts. Where did the fonts I need to trash go? Thanks in advance for any leads.

do you know which font it is? fonts are stored in /Library/Fonts or possibly in homedirectory/Library/fonts. delete the problem font and reboot normally.
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How to get font's information from PDF of page item?

The PDF file is placed in a document of InDesign.How to get the list of font's name from the PDF.I would like to know the font which is used in the PDF file.

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I try it.The IFontNames interface's "FontsSupplied" Function can't got the name of fonts from PDF file. This PDF file was created by InDesign.
If the PDF file had be created by Adobe Acrobat and some fonts had be embedded,the "FontsSupplied" Function would have gotten the name of fonts.
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Hello,
I am new to illustrator.Is there any way to know in illustrator using javascript that the opened PDF have corrupted fonts inside?.Two cases, first in which font is available in our system and other in which font is not available in our system.If font is not available in our system the Illustrator ask to replace the font with some other default font but if the font is available in our system it just takes the orignal correct font from system and make the corrupted PDF font, correct.In both the cases corrupted font is not coming in the PDF opened in illustrator.In javascript textFont abject is perfect, it has all the properties which a normal textFont object must have.

Joy,
Understand: The alert you describe is telling you that a font embedded in the PDF is not available for use in the OS. The font is just missing, not "corrupted."
An actual corrupted font can manifest itself in many errant and unpredictable ways in Illustrator; the program doesn't "know" the font is corrupted; it just suffers from whatever damage the corruption causes--like any other kind of corrupted file.
When you open a PDF in Illustrator, the dialog in the standard user interface gives you opportunity to replace a missing font with one that is installed, or ignore it (in which case the default font will be substituted.) As to whether Javascript can be written to automate that, I doubt that the detection of the alerts and the options for answering them are supported in the Javascript model. Moreover, the "answers" would probably have to be written for your specific set of available fonts if you want it to answer with a substitution. But I've never explored that, so I'll defer to anyone who has.
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Fonts from an SVG not selectable in a PDF

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We are importing SVG images into FrameMaker 7.1 and then creating a PDF (process is - In FrameMaker, print to file and then distill using Distiller 6).
When we open the PDF, some images are dropping various characters. For example, the letter "D" or "Z" will not show. In its place is a space.
When we check the Document Properties on the fonts, we get the following:
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Could the encoding as Identity-H be the problem and is there a way to encode the font differently?
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Font modification refers to opening and subjecting a font file to edits in a font editor and outputting as a font. That is not the same as using the convert to outlines or rasterize functions available in Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop and subjecting those particular outlines or raster images to transformations and/or full edits.
The fonts in the Adobe Type Library internally sourced allow for end-user modifications, i.e. actual modifications to the fonts themselves. Those sourced externally, no. But you may convert any text using those fonts to outlines and apply artistic effects and modifications to those outlines (or rasters) within the context of the document you are working on. Obviously, you can't then attempt to create a font from all those modified outlines as a workaround!
For a comprehensive listing of fonts offered in the Adobe Type Library and their “additional license rights,” see <http://www.adobe.com/products/type/font-licensing/additional-license-rights.html>.
Attached to this posting are PDF files with the lists of fonts with specific “additional license rights.”
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I have placed a pdf in illustrator that has embedded subset fonts. In illustrator the fonts display wrong but I get no warning that fonts are missing. When I click on the substituted font the type panel shows it as the correct font name. Are there any cases of a file with missing fonts not displaying a warning? If I save the file and reopen it I do get the font warning.

Possibly there are different versions of the font. The name may be the same, but the document could refer to an older/ different version and only when you save does that info get updated. Hard to tell without actually seeing the Doc. What does Acrobat say exactly about the font? Is there a doifference in that info when you re-create the text locally from within AI and save a PDF with the same options?
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Another suggestion would be to reload the font in your font folder on your computer drive.
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