Corrupted characters when combining pdfs
I am trying to combine a set of files into one pdf document. Each pdf file was created from Microsoft word and they all display perfectly as single files.
However when I combine all the pdfs into one document a lot of the text becomes corrupted and displays as square boxes instead of the correct characters.
Can anybody help please?
Thanks
Steve
I am not sure Preflight is part of Standard. If it is, you will find it under the Advanced menu. However, it appears that the embed fonts is not one of the profiles for AA8. AA9 has an embed fonts profile. If you have all of the original files available, the fastest approach might be to go back to the original files and recreate the PDFs, selecting the Press or Print job options. For combining, you may have to change the job options to not embed subsets. Sometimes the use of subsets causes problems when combining. Before you waste time on a whole set of files, I would suggest you play with 1 or 2 to see if things work out. I hope this process resolves your issues. Basically, all I am suggesting is what I would try to make it work. You can also use ctrl-D in Acrobat to get the document properties and check the font embedding under the font tab. If it does not say embedded, then it is not embedded.
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