Corrupted characters when importing PDFS to combined PDF

When I import PDFS they are showing up in the combined PDF with corrupted characters. What's up?

You probably nailed it on the head. The fonts in the separate PDFs have issues already. So when you attempt to combine them Acrobat tries to save and ... Voila! Garbage characters. You might be able to test this by exporting the separate PDF files to MS Word documents. My guess is that you will get garbage characters on the same pages as you would when you combined the PDF files.

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